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.

@@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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

@@bittech1 Thanks!

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.

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.

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

Contact Parvum Systems, I got mine manufactured by them!

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.

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

Thanks!!!