The good news, there was no cracked top, and i have ZERO leaks on my first watercooling system.
The finish on the block was excellent. No nicks or anything. Extremely smoothe.
Here is during some leak testing
Here is the final look
And the bad news...
As you can see, this is what i saw as i opened it up. There is one shaving just sitting there in plain view. The is obviously poor QC... I truly thought that they had tightened down on QC since the last batch. Guess not...
These are the smaller two shavings that i found. There was one big one about 50% larger than these, but it was small enough to get lost on my desk lol...