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  1. Monkey Puzzle

    Project Hush!

    Merry Christmas all, it's been a while. Since the last update I made a pump bracket benhind the pc case with a hole it pokes through, so just the pump reservoir protrudes into the case. A lot of time and effort have gone into bending the 14mm copper pipes for the hard-tubing, and if I'm honest...
  2. Monkey Puzzle

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    Made a jig (from a slightly sorry looking 10mm thick sheet of plexiglass) to keep the veneered backwall flat for sanding and coating with more coats of 'finishing oil' - the backwall is thin and fiddly and tricky to sand between coats and needs to be flat for applying the oil (and messy if this...
  3. Monkey Puzzle

    Project Hush!

    Took a dremel to the I/O PCI card aluminium bracket to fit the vertical GPU bracket which is resting on it in this photo (those horizontal struts with the pressed grooves seen behind it had to be cut to fit it, 3 countersunk M4 holes drilled to attach it at the front, and 5 m3 holed redrilled...
  4. Monkey Puzzle

    Project Hush!

    Fiddling round with pump positioning, case lying on its back on a polystyrene sheet. Might be the shortest ever hard tube to connect! 20230410_194342_Edited by Tom ., on Flickr
  5. Monkey Puzzle

    Project Hush!

    Few photos of PCI bracket and the lovely Alphacool Eisblock Aurora GTX4090 water block Alphacool generously sponsored the project with (vielen dank!). Bit of work done; heated 14mm OD/12mm ID copper tubing to anneal, straightened with an inner 12mm solid soft silicone tube, outer spring steel...
  6. Monkey Puzzle

    Project Hush!

    Not really an update, just a few extra phone photos in daylight: 20230226_165447_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr 20230225_163211_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr 20230225_163149_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr
  7. Monkey Puzzle

    Project Hush!

    Sorry for delay in updating - life got in the way. Right then. System in, ghetto-rigged. Photos below That big fat heatsink on the 4090 goes well past the PCI bracket and made fitting thumbscrews to attach the 4090 to the pci bracket very, very annoying That is a block of polystyrene and some...
  8. Monkey Puzzle

    Project Hush!

    Here's the Bitspower vertical GPU conversion bracket (disassembled). As with most Bitspower stuff it's very nice, CNCed aluminium, though anodised black which doesn't fit the walnut and shiny aluminium of the rest of the case. 20230102_224607_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr Thanks Andy (Vault-Tec) for...
  9. Monkey Puzzle

    Project Hush!

    Brrrrraaakkkk! Turkey getting stuffed, and merry Christmas! Been a bit snowed under with flu and family things. Gave the walnut-veneered wall 2 coats of the finishing oil (tung/polyurethane mix mainly). Got an EK FLT80 reservoir and gold-plated D5 bottom. Probably going to live like in the...
  10. Monkey Puzzle

    Project Hush!

    Thanks Thomas - it's a very attractive waterblock - it arrived today! along with a very cool modding mat and some ?stress balls?! Thank you very much, that was unexpected!
  11. Monkey Puzzle

    Project Hush!

    Update Couldn't help tinkering a bit more before putting pc hardware in. Tidied up the alternative orientation PSU hole with sone dremelling/filing and sanding. Cut and installed some rubber spacer strip between the aluminium angle legs and the veneered backwall, and drilled/countersunk 8...
  12. Monkey Puzzle

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    November 2022 update First coat of Liberon Finishing Oil applied to most sides of the walnut. Takes a few coats to really start to get depth to the finish and a degree of gloss. 20221016_183656 by Tom ., on Flickr 20221016_183641 by Tom ., on Flickr 20221016_183605 by Tom ., on Flickr Added...
  13. Monkey Puzzle

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    October 2022 Update Put the fiddly little pieces shown here between the pipes with tweezers. 20221003_201736_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr Tricky to show and the torch gives a purplish colouration, but nice pretty seamless fit 20221003_195451_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr I got these little brass...
  14. Monkey Puzzle

    Project Hush!

    I've veneered the resin manifolds - a lot more work than I expected - had to sand and trim down the resin then make everything flat and even. I then polished and sprayed the ports to the radiator case with incralac acrylic lacquer to protect from corrosion, leak-tested and cleaned the inside of...
  15. Monkey Puzzle

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    A lot of this update is faff. Cat decided not to supervise. 20220723_105151_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr A 25mm outer diameter steel pipe... 20220707_220837_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr A sharpened 25mm OD pipe for stamping holes in the veneer for the copper ports. 20220707_220842_HDR by Tom ...
  16. Monkey Puzzle

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    Did some sanding on the resin boxes/manifolds using the steel guide I made, using rotary sanding discs on a drill. 20220630_133137_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr 20220630_155453_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr 20220630_194139_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr Quick mockup of the veneer, held down with sockets and...
  17. Monkey Puzzle

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    Small update - made a sanding jig for the resin manifold boxes - they're sanded down, but even with sanding with large plate metal with sandpaper glued to it, it's difficult to get everything exactly square, what with copper ports in the way etc, so I made a thick steel jig that would clamp...
  18. Monkey Puzzle

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    Baby update. Going to do some needless modding to mount the laptop optical drive, so got what seems the best laptop slot-loading optical drive - a fast BD burner, the panasonic UJ265, since the mounting will be drive-specific so figured best to get a BD burner. Nice to see the drive has the...
  19. Monkey Puzzle

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    Bit of progress - lots of small diamond filing of the resin manifolds (bit boring, no pics), and some sanding and polishing of the g1/4 bsp copper ports. The case is upside down here - this is the drain port with an incompletely polished 1/4" right angle barbed connector with the 1m of 1/4" ID...
  20. Monkey Puzzle

    Project Hush!

    Time to slice up the veneer box sides for the side of the resin manifold the pipes pass though so it'll pass through the array of 48 pipes. First few slits cut here were by cutting repeatedly along the cutting line to cut through, and aren't perfect - I switched after this photo to cutting by...
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