• EVGA X99 Series
  • EVGA X99 Waterblock - CLASSY, FTW & MICRO *UPDATE* and FTW K (p.42)
2015/01/11 15:21:22
SU11YBEAR
look crazy but very nice and yeah the video was neat but didn't know exactly what i was seeing, did chuckle when the camera tried to focus on flying bits of metal
2015/01/12 08:18:51
nateman_doo
Yea, it was on auto focus.  Hard to focus when your being pelted with aluminum shrapnel ya know?   I thought it was cool.  Glad you guys did too :)
 
Here is the start of the FTW & Micro Vreg blocks:

 
Holes will be drilled today, maybe the outer shell... still debating on the processes.
2015/01/12 10:32:30
AnonymousGuy
One suggestion I would offer up is enlarging the screws holes on the delrin portion of the waterblocks.  Seems like the screws wanted to thread into them and made it more difficult to put the two halves together.
2015/01/12 11:50:22
nateman_doo
Thats done for a purpose, to keep them as aligned as possible.  oversized holes introduce slop.
2015/01/12 13:05:09
AnonymousGuy
nateman_doo
Thats done for a purpose, to keep them as aligned as possible.  oversized holes introduce slop.




More slop would have helpful.  Then I could have loosely installed all the screws and tightened everything down progressively and it would have probably aligned itself.  Especially if you used flat screws and countersunk the holes (although this would be another machining operation).
 
Not trying to sound like the blocks are low quality or anything, just I'm used to EK and Koolance blocks and their way of putting blocks together.  Although on the plus side your gasket channel being a tighter fit made reinstalling it way easier than it is with some blocks I've worked with.
 
2015/01/12 16:31:54
nateman_doo
your the also one of the only ones who has taken the blocks apart ;)
2015/01/12 16:50:27
kmarch
Nateman_doo
your the also one of the only ones who has taken the blocks apart ;)

I did also but i don't mind the tight tolerance. Had to clean out my cpu loop, had a flow issue
2015/01/13 03:50:00
nateman_doo
Was your flow issue resolved?  Hopefully I was not the source of the flow issue? 
 
So here is where it sits for a while:

 
I am waiting on more copper, and the next 2 days are spoken for.  Thursday I expect to get right too it.  I have most of the code already written so it will be quick. 
2015/01/13 06:42:25
kmarch
Yep, nothing big just needed to clean out my loop
2015/01/13 08:34:44
AnonymousGuy
kmarch
Yep, nothing big just needed to clean out my loop



Off topic, but plasticizer or random cosmic gunk? 

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