you're not injured and it is most important!

God thanks, you're not injured. "I'm worried about your “impact resistant" window. Why this is broken?

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Not really a congratulations type of thing.  its a setback.  its not the end of the world, but not something I wanted to deal with at the moment.

Sorry to see that Nate, But Glad No one was injured.
Kind of ironic in a way, But seems like if it's not pushing PC Systems limits, It's pushing Production quota limits.

I wasn't even there.  I left the machine to run while I went to bed.  My guess, is that the fluid wasn't running on the bit, so it got super heated and very gummy, caught the copper right, and sheered it apart.

I hate leaving my machine to run by itself, but I have to get some kind of sleep these days.  I would have caught it in time had I been there, and only lost the piece.  The easy part is replacing the copper, the hard part will be trying to get tapped holes back in the same spot that the old ones were. 

Drilled out the old screw holes, and bored out the steel screws.  Going to try something new today.  Tapping the hole with a 1/4-20 blind tap, then turn a threaded rod of aluminum, thread it in as hard as humanly possible & use some loctite, then cut the remainder out and flatten it out.  That should bring me back to a new surface to re-drill holes in the same spot. 
 
Should have that done today, and then just waiting on the new copper piece and end mill in the mail.

So where were we...
 
Turning the threaded aluminum:

This is the "plug"
 
A close up:

Thread locker applied to keep it in place.
 
Repaired:

A fresh new aluminum to drill and tap.  I wish I had thought of this YEARS AGO to deal with stripped screw holes.

Nice Repair!...................Now I remember Why I named You "Blockman Nate"!
 

 
 

aww, thanks!  i remember that pic.  brings me back a few years :)
 

 
Getting there. 

Your parting shot for the weekend. 

 
Headed out to Hershey Park for the weekend for a MUCH needed break.

Maybe I missed it, but how tall are these blocks?  I'm afraid my current case and rad will not support the standard vrm heatsink and I'd rather not replace either.  So, I'm very interested in this.  EDIT:  Found some pics.  And my current rad and case will not support the stock VRM heatsink, however with this and fittings it would probably be about the same height anyway.  So it is time for some case mods.  I might sitll get one of these for aesthetic reasons, though Keep up the good work Nate!

After reading  a bit of this thread @nateman, I'm glad you are getting a much deserved break! I understand the stress you are under juggling everything in life and sometimes it is good just to get away.