Scratch Build - In Progress ⭐ First Scratch Build from 16 year old!

Beware! A few years ago China flooded the market with super rough, non center-cutting bits. Generally, the better bits in 1/8" shank are the ones with the plastic collars on them. The collars are so you can change bits without resetting the Z axis. Get Japanese bits if you can.

 

Fair point thanks. I'm usually careful when I buy stuff online though. Avoid bad reviews and generally stick to Amazon if I can. Gotta love that next day prime delivery when you need them ASAP

 

Thanks! I have done a lot the last month, I got one 'almost perfect' distro, it's just a small one to ensure myself it was working and it did! I made more but they didn't come out that nice (chips were getting into the leadscrew and it was screwed) but now it won't happen any more hopefully.

 

Thanks! I received almost all my bits and here are they

 

I bought 2 pairs of 5 pieces and on Amazon for 25€ and the day they were delivered I saw the exact same ones on AliExpress for 8€ together . Those ones are just rebranded and doubled in price on Amazon I think.

 

yesterday flushed the loop and dismantled it.
Here you see the 'new' GPU terminal in place applied new thermal paste and screwed the block in place, test fitted the 24 pin extension and in the top left depinned the 8 pin extension and depinned it on the other side because I had +- 5 mm clearance to move the cables through this was the only option without tearing down the whole case.

 

Today I want to make the bends from the GPU terminal to the cpu and machine some cable combs for the 24 pin and make a small panel between the rad and the mobo

 

Did the 2 tubing runs this afternoon

 

completely depinned the 24 pin extension and made a passthrpugh piece for the cables individually and the sata data cable.
Sleeved the cable for the power switch too, you maybe can't see it but is lookt pretty nice imo. depinned the PCI express extensions too and put the cable Combes on it to "train" them because they were definitely not straight.

I got the o-ring adhesive delivered too.
I'm aiming to make some other cable Combes for the 24 pin today.

 

Unfortunately, the black and grey extensions were around 0.8 mm thicker than the white ones I measured I made the cable combs and the passthrough plate with holes of 3.5 mm in stead of 4.5 mm so the black and grey ones won't fit. I spent a lot of time on the passthrough plate and the cable combs and I am happy with the outcome so I don't want to redo them and white will maybe look even better so I depinned the 8 and 6 pin PCI express extensions (I'm getting sick of that depinning ) and had a plate with 0.5 mm aluminium on the front size and 2.5 mm with some kind of plastic on the other side so I used that and milled with the CNC of course holes for the power switch and the cables. And it looks pretty awesome! The result with all the combs inserted. Think I need to make 3 more or so, it doesn't look that perfect as I would like especially near that aluminium plate and I need to line the combs up too of course. The panels for the PSU shroud are shaved (don't know how to call it else) and there is a 45 degree cut to glue them almost perfect together. Attached the pump brackets to the upper plate too.

 

Feel free to ask questions btw!

 

Made a new clamping mechanism for the cnc, you can put your material in it and then tighten the bolts down till it is completely solid. I will mount this on the thing itself, I will show some pictures later.

I finished the PSU cover and glued the 2 panels together and sanded it a bit on the corner so it doesn't have sharp edges anymore.


My G1/4 tap finaly arrived so I could clean the threads of the 3d printed GPU terminal and I inserted the fittings on it as you can see on the previous images.

I sleeved the cables of the pumps too, and made mounting points on the chassis itself for the shroud.

 

I made the reservoir distro too, it's only the "under" side because I have to figure out where the G1/4 ports should be mounted. When it came out of the CNC it didn't look that nice but after a flame polish on the side and the outcuts and it looks very nice and diffuses the light really nice and the machining marks became invisible. I think it would look even better if I mount it on the side with some m3 standoffs so it would stand out even better. I used the rubber adhesive too and it works really well for the o-rings.

 

You are doing great on this one! I love seeing someone so young having so much patients to produce such fine work. On top of that, your ingenuity in problem solving like your clamp system for your CNC I think is just fantastic. Keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing more updates!

 

not bad! the only thing that i don't like is the red switch on top, and maybe adding some way to diffuse the light from the led strips

 

Excellent start, dude. Develop your fascination with mods. Just take a smaller photo, I have youtube videos upload faster.

 

Little update, I made a aluminium plate for on the PSU shroud. I sleeved all the cables for the fans and pumps too.