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what's up guys Jays $0.02 here in it's part three of this project update this acrylic tubing update here for this client build that I did last year and today we're going to actually touch our tube and we're going to do some acrylic tubing bending okay so the first thing you might notice is that the heatsink is red again well I'm going to go ahead and paint that thing red or black instead of using the tape on there only because the 3m tape does have a tendency to shrink as it gets hot no guys it does not unstick it does not fall off 3m tape is actually designed to be heat resistant so it will last through the heat especially the heat that that heatsink can put on there but I don't want it to shrink it does actually shrink as it gets hot that's how it gets tight when you do like a hood wrap or something on a car so we're going to go ahead and just spray-paint that black the customers okay with that I'm going to be using some blue painters tape which is low adhesive tape but the wife had to go pick that up for me while she ran to Target so I asked her to grab that so we'll be doing that a little bit later as you can see I've already got one tube kind of running right there I just want to see how well that 45 degree lines up with the fitting on the left side of that as you can see it lines up perfect so all I've got to do is a single 90 degree Bend and then just cut it to length and that's going to be an easy Bend right there I'm also going to be doing just like I did for skunkworks where I'm going to take some more of the 3m this is the 3m wrap people keep asking me where to get this no automotive supply eBay whatever so I'm also going to be taking the hole punch that I did with skunkworks so I'm going to be putting on the fans there and there and that's really all the rest to do today I guess I don't know if I'm gonna go through all the tubing because there's a lot of funky bends I have to happen especially down here this is going to be weird so anyway I'm going to kind of figure out how I'm going to do all this but first I'm gonna go ahead and cut out these little these little disks here and we're going to go we're going to go from there okay so these are the three rings here just made with the 3m stuff so we're going to go ahead and just stick it on now easy easy mods I like it and there's what it looks like with the little carbon fiber rings on there so I love that mod that's such a cheap and easy mod to do now some people have said why you leaving that fan white oh I'm not going to go through the trouble of removing those fan blades just to paint them when when the case is on it or the covers the side panels on it covers up pretty much all of that from the perspective he looks at this PC you came and see it anyway so alright there's that I guess the next thing to do now is start routing out our tubing which is well the majority of this project takes quite a while and hopefully it's going to look good when we're done okay so I always recommend starting with the easiest part of the loop that you can do and for me that's literally a straight pipe from the radiator outlet to the reservoir endless so I've measured it to length and it actually measures a 10 and 3/4 inches so that's exactly what I cut this piece of pipe down to and as you'll see this is quite easily well the easiest part of the installation that you can do and well you just compression fit it down to O rings and you're good to go overhangs actually slide into place ya see as you can see straight pipe straight across nice and clean I like ok so another question I'm often asked is how I know where to make my Bend so one of the things I do is I take a wire coat hanger or quite a few of them and then I'll cut the straight pieces off and then I'll bend them exactly as I need them so for instance this this Bend right now it's perfect for what I need to get from the graphics card to the backside of the radiator and I now know this is the bend that I need and what's most important is knowing where the where the ends need to line up so this is what I use as my template for bending and then that's usually going to lead to one maybe two attempts depending on how good actually bend the thing so there's a little tip for you use a metal coat hanger and use it as a template all right well there is the finished product because I had my template and I knew how I needed to bend it because of my hanger this is now bent perfectly exactly how I need it now how do I know where to I mean obviously it's a lot longer than it needs to be well now what I need to do is actually measure and cut the ends so that everything lines up oh yeah there you go that's basically how you guys get nice clean bends that line up a lot of people ask me how the heck do you know where to bend it well now you know all right well there it is and because I had such a good template I was able to actually incorporate the tube kind of going right through the graphics card it actually goes in between the block and the cables right there and right down into the radiator as you can see now the next tough Bend is going to be from there to there and all the other bends won't be so bad this one's actually this one right here is only going to be a single 90 degree Bend to there to there and then that one with that little offset it's going to be kind of a pain in the butt but all in all it's not too bad there's a straight tube up there we did first but I do like the way that this one incorporates that kind of a you know through the graphics card look now this one isn't exactly perfect straight up and down it does kind of lean a little bit but that's just going to have to stay because as way too much work to redo for the sake of it leaning a couple of millimeters you might also notice there's a slight blue tinge to this tube this is actually the UV blue tube it's just going to help with some of the blue color of the coolant there's no UV lights going in here but I just think it's going to help a little bit to in terms of the the color and I really like that though but this looks really tricked the way it kind of goes through you know the graphics card like that you couldn't take the graphics card without undoing out without undoing that anyway so it's not going to be problems I I think it looks awesome alright so the wife got back with the low adhesive painters tape I'm just going to be using some black itching primer on here to well paint that black and I've kind of created myself a little bit of an over spray cup there as you can see we're not going to be doing a whole lot of spray in there it's just a tiny little strip so we're going to paint that sucker black I turned off the fans that way nothing is blowing fumes around and this part shouldn't take too long this primer actually dries very very quickly so that's the next step because once I start putting in the tubing then I can't do what I just did so that's that's next all right there she is all her tubing is installed pretty pretty a pretty good loop I think the only thing I don't really like too much is right there that comes up the graphics card and that's because that's such a sly offset right there that it's got like this kind of a crazy angle to it but I can't do anything about that 45 degree fittings we're too sharp so the tube came out way over here I just had to do kind of a crazy bin there which I don't really like but as you can see compared to before it's a very very straightforward very clean looking loop what I really like though again is that tube right there and how it kind of goes in between the power cables and down to the radiator so that one's just sort of stealth tin there and but I think I think I think the buyer is really going to like it I like how streamline this this really is okay guys so the next thing we're going to do now is we're going to go ahead and take our Mayhem's x1 UV blue concentrate we're going to mix it to my distilled water here measured out and you guys are get to see the color of the fluid here so as you can see it's uh it's blue the bed is blue yeah blue it'll look good all right well we filling this sucker up pretty damn soon how come it seems like every time I'm working on this computer geez moocher much we just went to the gym and worked out work out even work out bro I work out how do you feel yellow you like jello you don't work out there we go guys it's not done I saw some more to do I'm working out the lighting but as you can see it may look slightly purple on the camera but I promise you it's not purple it's actually very blue right coconut is it blue or the purple yeah see it looks purple on camera but you know color balance bro anyway we're done for today you can see all of the tubes are in there and got some of the lighting in there but I think it I think it turned out pretty good I think the buyer is really going to like this oh and that red tube is just as you can see where I'm felling it and stuff so not to worry about that there we go guys part three of project no-name whatever projects uh overhaul I've been calling the series water coolant overhauling because that's all we're doing so alright guys if you follow on Twitter like and subscribe if you've not done that already what if you do you be pretty cool guy not you're still cool all right guys get your neck