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Originally Posted by JFettig
yeah dude, thatll be nice. Please dont try tapping with a 4-40 tap in copper unless you have the PROPER tools! lol. you pretty much need special taps or really nice tools to have it work decently without many broken taps.
so drill your 1/8" holes and use nuts.
Jon
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I wont be tapping the copper with the #4, I will be tapping the copper with the much larger #10-24 tap. I wouldnt dare tap copper with that little tap
The plastic top will be threaded with the #4-40 so I can bolt the top to the plate on the back of the video card.
Stuff came in today from mcmaster, nice buncha stuff!
I also figured out why the Tygon was so expensive there... It is 3/4" OD!!! Sweet christ this stuff is thick!. It is supposed to be the "high purity" stuff, so I dont know if all tygon is "high purity" or not. The 1/4" NPT tap is nice and sharp, the barbs look good, overall I'd say it was a good purchase.
I have also decided to change my loop slightly. I bought a 1/4" NPT brass ball valve that I intend to put on the bottom of the resevior for super easy draining so I can simply connect a tube to the outlet and put a bowl under the tube and open the valve. Also, I will have the water split from the whitewater and go through the separate blocks in parallel. There will no longer be a Y adapter to bring them together before the res... I will simply tap two lines into it. Also, the pump outlet will go directly to the radiator first because the lines would have to recombine in the radiator, which is something I dont want to do.
As soon as I get the plastic for the tops, I will post some actual build pics.