I am designing a wall dual PC rig and thanks to your videos, the whole process is going much smoother than I thought it would.

The dali-stache is hilarious. This guy knows comedy!

Thank you ! These type of videos are really helpful for starters. Keep them coming :)

quality, largely underrated content, you are sharing precious knowledge for free and this not many people are willing to do these days ! cheers and keep up the good work !

Hello from Belarus, your videos are very helpfull, thx!

Nice info! I usually work with 2.3mm o-rings as these are sold locally on my country. Issue comes when trying to get the o-ring on place on its groove, as I usually machine at 1.7mm. The cutter ideas about doing a single cut and slightly remove excess material on the bonding was great.

I was allways wondering how you guys do that! very good and helpful video!

Thank you! Excellent tutorial!

Great tutorial thanks guys👍

Great upload!! thanks for sharing

This line of instructional videos is great. Keep up the solid work and the phenomenal instruction!

Thanks for your amazing content!!!

it would be awesome to have a cnc like yours and just be creative. i am still so impressed by your G.Skill Trident Z Royal Scratchbuild. i have so many ideas and so few tools.

you saved me thank you i had a cpu waterblock that the gasket was bad and i followed the video well im using the cpu waterblock right now its perfect thank you so much for a very good informative video

I use a small V-Block to bring the ends of the O-ring together with the glue. V-Blocks help in aligning the ends of the o-ring much better than eye-balling them. A thin film of silicon grease on the walls of the v-block help in not getting the o-ring stuck to the v-block.

My kit doesn’t get used much but when I am in a pitch and don’t have the right size o-ring it’s a life saver completing a job .

Very good and informative video. I have used white silicone 2mm cord and it was a lot better and more flexible than a nitrile cord I got from ebay at first. The nitrile was not able to compress enough and the plate had leaks with it. Silicone was easier to fit and had 0 leaks for over a year. You can 3d print a jig to cut the cord at an angle for more surface area when gluing. Also keep in mind the channel shape and compression rates. Channels made with ball end mills instead of flat end mills need different tolerances. (U shaped cross section vs rectangular cross section) Finally a shorter-stretched to fit o-ring is more likely to have leaks compared to a "just the perfect size" o-ring. So yes, a longer than needed o-ring will not fit and not seal and a shorter than needed o-ring will stretch fit and probably seal, but everybody should aim for a zero stretch fit.

@bittech1

5 жыл бұрын

Handy thing with silicone too is the availability in different colours, natural clear can work well for frosted blocks as it completely disappears leaving the channel visible.

Love the video. Great help. One small problem though .... I found it after making my new O-rings. Great tip on the cutting method. I was glad I left extra length in the measurement as the first cut was no good.

@bittech1

4 жыл бұрын

Just be sure to be careful not having the o-ring be a tiny bit too long also. I did one a little long once and it bunched up during installation, when I tightened the plate it crunched the internal lip on the acrylic.

@dandel351

4 жыл бұрын

@@bittech1 Cheers for the reply mate. I'm new to the channel and I'm playing catch up. Loving your work so far some of the machining work has been epic.

Fantastic content that I'll probably never get around to making use of.... Maybe one day now that the water cooling bug has bitten me.

thank you for the info

Great Tutorial!!

Thanks for sharing, this is very helpful stuff!! What a nice end grain cutting board you have, nice alternative to cutting mats 😬

THANKS SO MUCH!! On my way to making some distro's, just loked up your CNC in USD and it's 4,445k USD, I'm so glad it's not 10k, or even 6k since I heard CNC's can be well over that, esp the industrial ones. So piped!!! I want to make aluminum cable combs too for my custom cables :D

@bittech1

4 жыл бұрын

Ahh that price is most likely before tax remember, plus tooling, plus coolant lines and compressors etc.

@LS-jk3fk

4 жыл бұрын

@@bittech1 True true, thanks for the response and guidance, I feel like I have the patience and creativity.

Hey Maki/Alex if you do see this message its adenporg from NZXT Discord xd loving the video

It should not be vertical both sides should be cut in matching angle 35°+- it will make contact serfice 20% bigger and reduce risk of compression failure.

@bittech1

5 жыл бұрын

Interestingly enough when I first did this I followed that exact procedure. The thing is I noticed that it was significantly harder to be accurate doing exactly that, which resulted in the o-ring being either the incorrect length or having a messy join, both of which prove to be more fatal. This isn't a better way as such but I've found for this field it has a lower failure rate. Based that on the 25 or so distro plates I've made over the last few years.

Only read the title, instant like

Thanks for the video! Does anyone have any links for O-ring material?

Great stuff broski 👌🏻

Which glue do you use to get those results on the moustache?

Another top tier tutorial. Amazing stuff

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I've always wondered about this.

A question: Would swaging the joint (either stepped or bevelled) help with the seal between the ends?

Considering the glue you’re using will flex with the o ring would it be a good idea to actually glue the o ring into the groove? Maybe this would make it more leak resistant and strengthen the join in the o ring?

Excellent video and channel M8, and that mustache is epic! Any chance you'd be willing to do a tutorial on how to make your own digital air pressure tester for a water cooling loop? I have a Doctor Drop, but it doesn't seem to be very sturdy and I'd rather have a digital pressure meter.

@bittech1

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers! That one’s definitely on the cards, I have a chunk of the kit required but need to go through and work out some kinks first. Don’t want to be showing folks how to make a rubbish one haha

@JohnKimbler

5 жыл бұрын

@@bittech1 Thanks!

Amazing content Thanks!

Hi, any suggestion on how to remove the stain caused by EK mystic fog? Thank you.

This is what I am looking for, thanks a lot mate for sharing this info, for the next video, @bit-tech could you show us how to make a custom full cover GPU waterblock / motherboard monoblock? I do love to build mini itx PC and now some version of gtx 1660 Ti is coming in SFF size and i don't see any waterblock manufacturer make a block for gtx 1660Ti ,,

Would a square profile o-ring have any advantages over a round profile cord stock?

I would love to know how to mount a thin panel directly flush against a radiator port to be able to sit at the same thickness as the fans. There would be no space for tubes. The acrylic would be literally pressed against the radiator inlets. Would I simply thread a fitting directly through the acrylic into the threaded ports? Sorry I am brand new to this, but I do have a design in my head

and what glue did you use on your moustache?

Hey, could you guys do a video about how to paint fans or radiators for example? Would be fantastic.

@bittech1

5 жыл бұрын

Good suggestion! Would be a good idea to try out a few things to test performance changes actually since that tends to be the main argument folks put forward in regard to painting fans and rads.

@stevenutter3614

3 жыл бұрын

Never paint a fan dude. Or a rad. Unless you mean the outer shell of the rad only. Never paint the fins. If you're going to do that you might as well just stick with prebuilt PCs . No point making a custom loop only to sabotage your own performance. 1. Painting the fans will make the blades heavier, off balance, and you will without a doubt contaminate the bearing with paint as well. There's a reason manufactures don't even paint fans. If they can't get a perfectly even coat everywhere with their thousands of dollars of quiptment , there's no way in hell you can in the garage with a can of rusto. 2. Painting the rad is going to reduce the transfer of heat from the fins to the air, which is the whole reason it exists, but more importantly there's problem number 3. Painting the rad will decrease the size of the gaps between the fins, thus restricting airflow, and further impeding the transfer of heat, that is if your fan even has a static pressure rating high enough to push the air through the now much more difficult to push through radiator. Pair that with your off balanced crippled fans, and you've literally just taken your however much moneys worth of fans and radiators and thrown them in the garbage. I'm betting at least a 15 degree difference between a fully painted radiator and set of fans, and the way they were originally. Why don't you just take some cement and fill in the rad with that. That'll work great. You'll notice the black on rad fins today pretty much rubs off with a single touch. There's a reason for that. Cause it's barely on there to begin with. Some manufacturers don't even paint them at all. It's like painting your shoe laces . Yeah now they're all glossy but they also don't lace anymore cause they're stiff with paint. Or painting your car tires. Painting your guitar stings and picks. Yeah I just want my guest bathroom to really "pop" so I'm going to paint the mirrors bright orange I think.... Oh no, shoot I already used the last of the orange rusto painting all my utensils, for the second time this month. I swear I don't know what happened to the first coat , it's as if it just came right off. 🤢Lol

Have you ever used flat rubber gasket that just sits between the 2 plates?

@aman11283

4 жыл бұрын

I had the same idea. If you use 3 plates and two gaskets then you can just use a coping saw to cut the reservoirs/channels in the center one and don't even need CNC. Then again, it probably wouldn't look as cool. Actually, I take that back. You can get clear PVC or silicone material and it might even look better.

how about painting fittings.. or chrome or gold plating the fittings

can u use superglue even for silicone and viton rubbers?

I've a design of a distro plate, but struggling to find a place to do it in UK. Can you, maybe, can help locating such places? thank you.

@impatience4450

5 жыл бұрын

Contact Parvum Systems, I got mine manufactured by them!

Did you ever try to make a distro plate without o-rings. Two methods that might work is to use silicon in a shallow groove on both sides, or glue or even better weld the two plates together.

@bittech1

3 жыл бұрын

Yup, done several by acrylic welding the plates but honestly I’m not a fan. I quite like the look of the o-rings, there’s a solidity to the appearance that appeals to me.

hi do you make custom distribution plates for 1000d case

Great

Nice video. quite the mustache too :)

For the US viewers here check out: Mcmastercarr.com for huge selection of parts and raw materials.

man.....u have to blink more hahahaha

You spend all that time on your moustache and you let your nails suffer! 😂

am i the only one who watched almost the whole video at his mustache?

When cutting o-ring cord for gluing you shouldn't cut it 90 degrees to the centerline but rather at a shallow angle, the ends then has more surface area for the glue and it generally holds up longer

I can't look past the moustache.

How much $ will it take for you to shave that thing off your face lol

You say it's a simple Cyanoacrylate super glue but its not. That is their rubber infused line of superglue. That's why it says power flex. Somebody probably went out and bought the most expensive loctite brand super glue. Also liquid and gel super glues behavior very differently I feel as if you should have touched on that. I don't think you're even aware that you have special super glue. I'm betting that's why what you described as the "cheap" brand didn't work as well. Not because it was cheap, and Loctite is quality but because they are fundamentally different recipes of glue. It's like calling a vanilla shake the cheap version of an oreo shake. It would be like showing somebody how to bake a cake and pretending the cake mix you've started the video with already in a mixing bowl is just plain flour. Ok two analogies is enough 🤪🤏🛩

I would love to know how to mount a thin panel directly flush against a radiator port to be able to sit at the same thickness as the fans. There would be no space for tubes. The acrylic would be literally pressed against the radiator inlets. Would I simply thread a fitting directly through the acrylic into the threaded ports? Sorry I am brand new to this, but I do have a design in my head

I would love to know how to mount a thin panel directly flush against a radiator port to be able to sit at the same thickness as the fans. There would be no space for tubes. The acrylic would be literally pressed against the radiator inlets. Would I simply thread a fitting directly through the acrylic into the threaded ports? Sorry I am brand new to this, but I do have a design in my head

@bittech1

5 жыл бұрын

Use a Bitspower D-plug mini and machine press-fit ports into the acrylic

@timgoffard

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!