Scratch Build – In Progress The BumblBuild

WOOOOOO!!!!!
So, Here we are,
It's just a mupdate as I have no time for full photo shoot and lots to do today.

They are finally here, and I am so glad I went with the lads at Parvum because they are B-E-A-UTIFUL!

Like silk to the touch, love it (I am far too excited right now people )
This weekend should be fun








Until later, thanks all for reading!!

 

Right everyone, it's a bit of an annoying update, As I couldn't get everything I wanted done.

Valentines and all.
I did make a beasting cake




So I don't know how much you want in terms of commentary, but I'll try and give some labling to the picture log

It BEGINS!!




Frame Together:






Base on (the feet are under there too )








Tools and bits!




CPU block attached and installed






Standoffs on the mobo tray




Special painted screws to attach mobo:



Mobo ON



Res bracket on mobo tray:



Bringing it together







Painted nuts to attach mobo tray



Mobo and tray in!








Radiators in!!!!






Well that's me folks, more to come as I begin to tackle the plumbing

 

So I did some work last night.
Re drilled the mobo tray, it now has sunken holes for the back of the yellow plate's screw heads to go in, so it lies better against the black acrylic.

I also attached my *special* PCI bracket.
Mounted the pump
screwed the fittings in
Realised I'm missing a fitting
tubed up the pump
tube was wrong length so tubed it again
not 100% happy with it so may tube it AGAIN
bought more tubing and the missing fitting today

All of this I took pictures of
pictures on the SD card->in my camera->in my camera bag-> under my desk And of no use to ANYONE!!


So, another update tonight I think When I've done some more

 

So, so so so.
A mix of good and bad, I am all full of bad, but I was looking forward to getting this done.

Before the disappointment, here's some pics

Cool feature of this case is any side can be removed leaving the rest intact:


This was to allow me access to the Mobo:



I decided to put all the fittings in:




Then my *special* PCI 'bracket':




These will be trimmed down later, and a couple of nuts will hold the GPU in place at the top.

Mobo back in and pump tubed up:



Now for some BENDING:


Now here comes the disaster.....Heatgun is all European plug
My only eu->GB plug converter is for a shaver and fuse cannot take a heatgun, nor can a bigger fuse fit.....

Not to let that deter me, I went to the kitchen and used the hob

First 90 Degree:


Pfft, who needs a heatgun!!
wimps!!

then the real disaster struck.....
I was using the monsoon pipe cutter do-dad....and I can only go with "I'm a bit of a muppet" because I only went and cut through the bloody metal:






I'm not overly pissed off at breaking the guide, but I've gone and cut the tube wonky now

I can "Probably" fix it with sandpaper, and I have more tube:


But to be honest, that's me for today
missing fitting arriving tomorrow, I'll grab my sandpaper and a new plug, and go for a fresh start tomorrow.

Thanks for reading

 

Just use a fine file to make the end straight again if you get it a bit wonky.

 

Yeah, I've got my files next to it so I remember, but gonna grab my sandpaper from workshop on the way home for that final finish.

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Wooo,
Got my missing fitting
got more flexy tube
Got my British plug
on my way home I'll pick up my sandpaper and Take 2 will be upon us

 

Another update,
Every day I get closer..... I think

Missing fitting and some more tubing:



Close ups of fitting as I was killing time:





Fitting in it's place:



New plug for heatgun:



First pipe in it's pipe hole!!



Second pipe bent, the first with the heatgun:



I'm once again a failTrain:



There were then more failures....
I'm not gonna lie, it wasn't pretty......
From now on, my advice to people is buy twice the hardtubing you think you need

Here's how I've left it:



Do not fear, that pipe on the right just needs cleaned as it's full of plastic from reaming

now I have one bend left (and might re-do some) it's the run from the pump up to the top right rad....I think I need to give myself time to think about it... I only have one piece of pipe long enough so need it to go well

The rest will be soft tubing till I get the last rad.

Thanks for reading

 

Right, so another 'no picture' update I'm afraid
It was late when I finished and went straight to bed rather than posting/uploading pictures.

I re-bent the tube I was unhappy with, Am now happy with it.

I tried to do the epic run from pump->rad and encountered a problem. The silicone insert is not long enough to reach where I need to bend :/
Not sure what to do here....Try and find a longer insert? or change the routing to use a different route?
I'll post some horrific paint mockups later if I have time.

I decided to tube up the rest of the cpu loop with soft tube to leak test the hardline.....
...It leaked
ho ho ho what fun this is
It just dripping out of the straightest and easiest piece.....and I have no clue why
I'l need to get it apart, look at it, maybe it needs re-glued/the glue didn't cover the whole sleeve.
The loops draining for now, I need to solve this long pipe issue

 

Update update

Water cooling was worse than I thought....more leaks.

All now fixed *crosses fingers*
Down to a lack of glue on the collars *face palm*

I re-did the tube I didn't like:


The bottom one:



Tubed it up with flexy, so I can keep my current rig up with gpu till fittings come monday(I hope ocuk)


Here's pictures of yesterday's leak:





Here we are where I am now, letting the pump run for a leak test:



Sorry about picture quality, I'm not giving myself enough time, it's all point and click right now

Until next update!!!

 

Here we go then!

So I got my fittings I needed, and some more acrylic tubing (I'll always need more )

First off, I got a shiny bitspower fitting to split the pump->top right rad run up.





This is due to it being so long that the insert wouldn't fit so I opted to make it a bit easier, and buy a bitspower fitting (I've always wanted one )

Unfortunately I need different tubing for that run, so it's planned I'll put it in when I've got the last rad, as I'll be draining then anyway.

Onwards!

Blocking up the GPU time!

Lovely 290x:




Old cooler off:



Cleaning up the Die:



Lovely polished block on:






Tubing it all up:
New acrylic piece for rad->GPU, soft tubing from there, as this will be replaced when last rad is in position.






Putting my Vardar fans in place (still to be sleeved )





A wee leak test later and!



IT'S ALIVE!!!!

Until I've got the cabling done I'm running on mobo headers, so 4 fans
But idling at 16, so that's pretty beast mode

New desk arrives tomorrow, so bumblbuild can get up off the floor

Until next time!!!

 

So,
Exciting times!!
A wee package came in for me today:


Last one

Now this means draining the loop and more bending but hey ho
I will probably not do it tonight, as I need to work on the pump->rad connection, need some of than e22 tubing.

Once these are in I can get some lovely Mayhems in the old girl

Also looking into pulling the trigger on the sleeving supplies to get that all prettied up

Last but not least I will hopefully have a picture heavy surprise for people in the near future

Stay tuned and thank you for reading!!

 

Amazing scratch build!

Keep waiting for more updates.

Subbed

 

Thanks,
Welcome aboard

 

Hello hello everyone.

I've had a couple of upsets, more stuff being bought this week, last of the fans, odds and ends, hopefully the cabling things

So, Things that have changed:

New desk! (something that can support the case )



(And that's a 22" monitor next to it, for a sense of scale )

New and last radiator in:



GPU all hardline'd in now
Messy leak test shots:



Not as straight as it could be, but I can live with it for now:


Card focus:


Tube focus:


Needs fans but Tuesday for them



In other news, contacted people about getting some filters, not that that matters when there's no roof

Next task is getting her cables all prettied up
Also the last tube run (pump to rad) which I need ANOTHER fitting for, which comes Friday, will get done and I'll get some lovely Mayhems fluid in

Until next time

 

Hello hello,

Here we are with another update

So the final tubing run which was holding me back was the Pump->Rad run.
And here we are:



My new fitting came and made it all possible









I think it's coming together nice, I'm really happy with the parallel line look.

And last but not least, the loop being finished allows me too.........



Fill it with swanky fluid !!




That ends this weeks update
Next week should be the cable attack, maybe more surprises

Until next time

 

Hello Everyone!

Massive and Exciting news!



I'd like to announce that Avexir are now sponsoring my build
A massive thank you to Peggy over at Avexir, who's supplied something which, if I say so myself, is nothing short of perfect for this build.



Do you know what it is?



I have to say, these oooze class.
The box is in every way a great way to let you know that you're about to open something special.



Each stick is sitting in its own special slot, keeping the RAM in place and displayed in the box.







OOOOooo Don't you just love that heatspreader







Enough playing around with it, there's a number one thing you're to do with RAM.... Getting it in



And then, Turning it on:



Ooo the lights

A bit better lighting:



Now I will take some more pictures of the RAM sitting in the system as a whole next wee.
Cabling stuff is on its way and will really help neaten the inside of the case.
Also it'll let me get the fans all on and see how far these babies can go

A big thanks to Avexir again!
Until next time!

 

Wow, So I just found out I'm in the running for Mod of the Month.
I'm really surprised and happy that I'm up on my first real mod, There's lots of great mods there so I encourage everyone to come and vote, and remember mine's the Bumblbuild
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=282671

Also there'll be an update coming later tonight, I have had a long anticipated package arrive

 

Hey all!

Another update is here, While I wanted to have the cables all done by now, due to a shipping problem it was delayed.

BUT NO MORE!!



Stuffs all here!!!

next few days will be furious cabling, really want it done by the weekend but might need to be finished up over it.
But until then, some pictures I attempted in RAW and a lightroom type thing

















Hopefully it'll all be done and look ace

Thanks for reading

 

Hey everyone.

Sorry there's been little updates recently, I've been a bit busy with some other things.

I've sleeved up all the fans, made up a splitter cable I'm really not happy with so will do again.
Still need to do the mobo extensions, been trying some ideas for a nice curve.

but in some lovely picturey news Instead of making my peripheral cables I thought I'd treat myself:



A bit thank you to the people over at Pexon PCs who helped me select the colour combo and overall delivering a lovely service.
Just to mention this isn't sponsorship, These cables are worth every penny and I'd pay it again



Double sleeved:


One for my mic, one for the keyboard (mouse and headset will no doubt follow in future)


I'm sorry for such little progress everyone, I'm really gonna try and get more done next week, Until then

 

UPDATE INBOUND