It's getting real hard!

grim. said:
Also worth watching the guide video's on how to use that monsoon kit you've got. It's an excellent bit of kit when used correctly, provided you measure accurately and always work from the centre line of the fitting and tubing.

You're best off getting a bit of mdf that you can mark out your tubing run on, and screw the mandrells down onto that and get the bends as accurate as possible. Otherwise you'll end up wasting a lot of tubing, or it'll look a bit messy.

I've still got a tube in mine I need to redo because I'm not happy with it, and I spent a good while measuring and marking it out. It's a patient mans game this hardline tubing malarky.
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Probably would be a good idea but not very manly is it!?

I did think about that, I went to buy some and the only bit I could buy was bigger than my car and didn't have time to wait for them to cut it.

Yeah, I tend to get bored half way through building my PC, but need to make sure I don't as I want to do it right first time.

TechMinerUK said:
Happy Birthday :D
Nice to see you making progress with the system but for the love of all thats good take your time bending the tube. It should be hot enough so that if you loosen your support on it it will bend by itself. Still though it's looking good as the white/black colour scheme does look very nice. :)

Also, I never knew that it the CPU block had writing on the side of it as I just assumed they would be like the EVO blocks and be blank.

Keep up the smashing work and I look forward to seeing more updates, also enjoy the rest of your birthday (Don't burn your tube though) :D
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Thanks! :)
Yeah I plan to have a good evening doing it tomorrow and get everything measured up. And then start bending some stuff I actually need. The rushed bit I done last night was me just reaaallly wanting to try it see how hard it was.

jamiehard1989 said:
Happy birthday and love the colour of motherboard, makes it stand out so much.
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Thanks, it doesn't look great close up as some idiot at work touched it when it was wet, then tried to correct his finger print with paint and it ended badly, I was annoyed and just stuck it on.
 
Yeah can I give you a wee tip, just wet the silicon insert a bit, if you make more than one bend at a time it can be difficult to pull it back out of the end.
 
I got bending properly this evening.. getting a bit better at it now.

I had a plan the other day where it was going to use pass through fittings and having everything going into the back tray and hiding the lot but it's not possible with fans and other bits. I am going to do it with one fitting on each fan as it will make things much neater but only time will tell when I think about the loop a bit more but I've got a rough idea so far.

I went and bought some MDF as said above, it was needed after watching a few videos,

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Screwed down my first bender ma' bob.

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Measured out the lengths from the CPU to the GPU. Then went for my first bend.

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Popped it in, it sat a little too high to line up properly.. You can see it points down a little, this was rectified with the deburererer tool, it's great for taking off little amounts!

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This was when I trimmed it down.

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Went for the second bit which was a bit more complex but measured up and got everything set up and measured on the MDF.

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Started again (My parents were getting annoyed by this point :D )

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Not to bad I don't think :p

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I did make the second bend in this and it went really well, turns out when I went to line it up, i'd bent it the wrong way.. I didn't take a picture as I forgot but not it happens!

More tomorrow, starting to enjoy it now! I love the precision and work you have to put in.
 
That's great progress chief, and excactly the way I do it. Also believe me, it's easier than you'd think to do a bend the wrong way. I've done it on more than one occasion when it's bending on several axis in one run.

Try holding the tubing as far from the bend as you can to avoid any depressions in the tube around the bend. It also makes it a little easier to line the bends up nice and square.
 
Your tubing run looks good as you appear to have got a good, precise corner with minimal collapsing on the inside of the bend. Just remember that bending it should be like walking it arround the mandrel instead of being like bending a piece of metal/plastic. Still though, nice work and I look forward to seeing the rest of the tubing runs :)
 
I'm getting better! :D

I got fed up with the stupid measuring things and thought i'd do it my own way, which for me, works much better!

I took my spare Vernier caliper from work, it is pretty handy.

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I was thinking this would look cool, which I think it does but I didn't take into account the fans luckily they fit at the front behind the mesh which doesn't ruin the looks a massive amount. it's a couple of mm too long in the middle between the two bends but luckily I used my 90 fitting to get it to fit.

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I got a bit carried away with bending and this was my best bend I've done so far... I'm real proud of this one.

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I was so 'stoked' on this it was unreal.. I was showing my parents, how didn't give a crap and looked at me like a weirdo!

Then she turned around and said "Why do you just buy one premade!?" I wanted to slap her..

Got my two axis game on, it worked this time!

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I think it's look pretty sweet now. The camera angles make the bends look a lot more out than they actually are.

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I got my fluid through from OcUK today.. Ordered a few more fittings from another company as OcUK didn't have them in stock which haven't turned up yet :(

Hopefully it'll be done by the weekend and i'll have the weekend gaming if the weather turns out as the weather people say.
 
Those tubing runs look excellent. You must have spent a lot of time measuring them as they look very precise and neat with no collapsing. :)
Can't wait to see the rest of the build log as the build is coming on in leaps and bounds.

Excellent work :D
 
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jamiehard1989 said:
I really want to go hardline on mine, after seeing so many people do it.
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I've been umming and arring for ages now, took the plunge and I'm so glad I did :D

TechMinerUK said:
Those tubing runs look excellent. You must have spent a lot of time measuring them as they look very precise and neat with no collapsing. :)
Can't wait to see the rest of the build log as the build is coming on in leaps and bounds.

Excellent work :D
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Yeah, it did take a while, i'm a perfectionist so it will all be getting redone as I get better but for the time being this will do and i've only used 1 pack of tubing so far! I'm getting a new PSU with fancy cables for christmas from my parents.


Thanks everyone else for the comments! :D
 
Little update, nothing major:

I've ordered more fittings from another water cooling company in the UK which are awful as I still haven't got my fittings.. Not a happy bunny!! Can't go another night without my PC and no work this weekend means loads of gaming so i've put it back together with my soft tubing as the last two bits of tube.

Here's a little peak of what one tube looks like :D

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I'm not giving anything away as i'm quite proud of this :D

I'm not so happy about my RAM, seems one stick has died and will only boot with 1 stick in, so i'm going to have to grab some more, it's tempting to get the Sabranco board and Mobo but that'll be too much white and £200 for a Z97 board!? :eek:

I'm now off to enjoy some AC when it finishes downloading!
 
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