**Experimenting with Cutting and Drilling Acrylic**

For this project, I didn't want to simply rely on automated tools, so I decided to take matters into my own hands and try cutting the acrylic by hand. It's not difficult to twist the pulleys by hand, which allowed me to get to the last thread without any issues. However, as I was holding the handle in a specific way, I was concerned that it might pop out and chip off the last thread. To avoid this, I simply wiped it clean right there.

**Recalling Past Experiences**

As I worked on this project, I couldn't help but think about past experiences with similar tasks. For instance, I remembered a time when Kevin was able to keep Oster's secret, and he was thrilled about it. He felt like he had accomplished something impressive, even if the letter "EK" was still visible in the finished product. This experience reminded me that even with 95% of the job done, there was always room for improvement.

**Drilling a Drain Port**

To drain the system, I considered drilling a drain port on the back side of the acrylic. I chose this location because it would allow me to easily access the inner workings of the system without having to worry about damaging any components. The fact that the acrylic is prone to cutting very easily made this decision even more appealing.

**Working with New Bits and Taps**

As I continued working on the project, I realized that my experience was still relatively new to me. Although I had started out by trying to cut it by hand with a drill, I eventually moved on to using new bits and taps. This shift in approach not only saved me time but also allowed me to refine my skills.

**Reassembling the System**

With the drain port in place, I was able to reassemble the system more efficiently than before. The fact that the front glass could be unscrewed made it easier for me to access the inner workings of the system without having to fight with reaching into tight spaces.

**Using a Gauge to Eye-Ball Cuts**

As I worked on the project, I used a gauge to eyeball where my initial cuts needed to be. This allowed me to make more accurate adjustments and ensure that my cuts were precise. The use of this gauge also enabled me to avoid having to guess where my cuts would need to go.

**The First Try: A Success**

When it came time to cut the acrylic, I was pleased with how easily it went. The first try resulted in a perfectly clean cut, which was a welcome surprise. This experience taught me that even when working on complex projects, there is always room for improvement.

**Tips and Tricks for Working with Acrylic**

Throughout this project, I discovered several tips and tricks for working with acrylic. For instance, the fact that petg can be bent to fit tightly around other materials made it an ideal choice for certain applications. Additionally, using a 90-degree bend on the table allowed me to achieve tight bends without relying on specialized jigs.

**Conclusion**

Working on this project taught me several valuable lessons about experimentation and problem-solving. By taking the time to try new approaches and refine my skills, I was able to create something truly unique and impressive.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI told you guys when we came back I was going to try and do it right take your working gaming experience to the next level with the ViewSonic xg340c2k Ultra wide high-end display the xg340c2k 34 inch 100 Hertz ultrawide monitor features HDMI 2.1 AMD freesync premium Pro a 1000r curved screen Visa display HDR 400 and one millisecond response time for the ultimate immersive gaming experience and take control of multiple devices with KVM support while also taking full control of your display via the elite display controller to see the full list of specs and features follow the sponsored Link in the description below all right so the journey in learning how to drill through acrylic and stuff the right way uh continues and you know what I have the spare Reservoir right here ready to go because this this is the day today is the day and never gonna something with you anyway I said in that video to do it right like by the end of that video I made something that was acceptable by hand but what that taught me at least by doing it by hand is I could feel what was happening with the material so I could at least understand how to do it right so what I've got right here is just a basic Porter Cable 200 um bench top drill press which is just clamped down because one of the next videos you guys are going to see soon is me just doing this this this room just gives me anxiety this whole shop is a disaster but now that we have the belt sander and the drill press and we have the clamps and the skill saw and all this stuff that I want to start doing uh more custom stuff with my cases I need a place to have this stuff set up permanently so this whole area is going to be really kind of revamped that room is the review slash testing room this room needs to be the building where the computer builds and stuff happen and that's the problem is I have this space now and the builds take forever because I'm not utilizing my space efficiently and having an area where I can have a build set up and work on it while other things are happening so anyway a couple things we're going to do today um I got some new stuff too to kind of help with this I got a quality bit this is a high quality bit that was like 30 about 35 bucks for this one bit and the material I'm I already did a test drill just cuts through the acrylic like butter but I'm curious now how much of it is the drill press versus the cheap Harbor Freight bit so we'll do a test with that what I what I didn't do though is is uh tap the hole that I drilled so here's a test I want to show you I drilled this hole right here overlapping one of the chattered out cracked holes it's like San Bernardino crack right there but anyway uh as you can see it's a nice clean cut and it proved that most of the issues I was dealing with is trying to do it with hand tools because your hands are moving and this can't it can't jump the bit can't jump out so as I mentioned I clean I cramped I clamped this down to the table because you need it to be as stable as possible the whole drill press is moving that's a problem uh well I just also have some pie in here to use as a backing material what I will do with the actual product when I'm ready to do this next is I will be blue taping up the entire thing except for a square where I need to drill because I don't want it getting all scratched up obviously but for today's purposes of just practicing it doesn't it doesn't really matter so I'm gonna just pick a new spot here if you will um we'll go right there but before I do that I have to set the height of my drill so I'm gonna take the Chuck open this up I got a new countersink bit too two of them two different sizes so I can kind of see which one gives me the proper tapered Edge that way the O-ring can really have something to sit into we need to make sure this goes all the way through so I've got to raise this up so this is the part that if you don't have it lined up that's a problem for your bit right this is steel so let's just do like that right there clamp this guy so the purpose for this is to make sure it has the bit is cutting the material it's not pulling it up because it was going to want to pull it up because it's just a screw as you can see so there's this I'm also going to use my little blowing Metron here I told Nick we need to come up with like a gooseneck Mount or something that come out like a high-powered PC fan to this to blow away the debris because the cleaner we can keep the bit the better it'll be for uh the the smoothness of the cutting so I'm going to cut this hole right now with the new bit that I got let's put some water on there and then I'm going to cut a hole next to it with the crappy bit Harbor Freight and then see how well they compare oh that is so clean look at that hole She's a Beauty Clark so there's that very clean hole the back side's a little bit sharp a little bit rough because the bit just ate all the way through right so this is where the uh the countersink bits really come in handy you know to smooth all that out and if that if I leave that rough then the O-ring is not going to seal properly so that is regular well the nice bit I now want to try the crappy bit the very first thing I noticed when I turn it on that bit's wobbly I can even feel it like the whole thing shaking okay so first and foremost you guys saw on the other one when I was cutting it didn't make any noise even what I had when I had water or not so here I'll put water in it listen to this bit listen listen to the sound so I think it's going to be a little bit of a two-parter where and I'll finish the hole where it's better quality as well as better stability listen you can hear the wobbling of the bit listen because it's hitting the side of the bit as it goes around kind of oblong that's going tap tap tap against the side oh I bet you anything so when I was cutting with the uh the tap I noticed it was going not like a nice and I bet you that's because the bit one being by hand and two being wobbly is giving me a slightly oval hold just enough to where it was biting the edges unevenly I bet you anything anyway the two holes side by side that's the crappy bit that's the good bit by eye you cannot tell a difference but I can tell you just by the sound and the feel of the drill press that bit is wobbly which is obviously not going to do us any favors so anyway what I'm going to do next is I'm actually going to use this as my as my platform for using my what I'm gonna call it my my tap because I need the tap to be able to go through the hole and the problem is if I do on the edge of the table it's hanging off it can flex and I don't want to break the acrylic so I'm going to use this now ideally I would do this with a hand like they also have drill presses with a hand crank I can move it real slow I would prefer to drill press hand crank but this does not have that feature and it turns way too fast I would need to go very slow so unfortunately I I feel like that would be the next step if I find myself tapping holes all the time still looks crooked I wonder if that means my tap has gone in cricket all right there we go I got a perfect one I I ironically it was on the one with the bit but that's because I finally decided to use a teeth Square which is which is a triangle triangle square to make sure that the bit was Square as I start and then after it starts to cut test it again it was off on maybe a half a degree I was able to sort of straighten it out under tension and then go straight through uh I still think I maybe need to go a little deeper on the taper it just starts to get you can see how far I'm going based on where the material stops it just gets scary because it really gets hard to turn and I don't want to shatter the hole because I know that it's expanding the whole it's only sexual innuendos anyway it starts to really expand the hole as you go deeper and it's not like I can go the next size bit bigger whatever um I need to do this again now at least one or two more times cleanly but look at that look at that right there that is that is beautiful see a little bit of the black material that came off of the threads that's sitting in there but all right let's try it again we'll come back with the next hole okay so fast forward you guys have probably been screaming at your monitors for the last two videos at least the last video and then part of this one like Jay MPT is tapered you need s or BPS or British pipe standard or straight or something like that I forget what it is so this is what I was using and you can see it is very tapered what we have ordered and this is now obviously a day later from what you guys have already been watching is a g quarter by 19 straight fluted whereas this is a g quarter by or G quarter Dash 18 tapered flute now that we have the right thing it should just go through here without getting caught up this is one of their holes that they yeah look at that this is one of the holes that they cut see it just goes so anyway this is nice to have I guess for something else some other time the other thing too is because this is so much smaller it means my I even I even bought this big old that's a T handle right there right you've got this big OT handle to use for the bigger one because it wouldn't fit anything but I also did something else in order to make sure I get it started nice and straight it dawned on me I'm like Chuck it up in here cool down with that turn the pulley by hand and you know what it works pretty well so I just did that with it plugged in I'm an idiot anyway let's now test it again on this thin piece I have the other piece ready to go um so that we can maybe just get this done I also learned something else that uh if I use my Tube Lube this is for putting it on the cord that way the cord will slip into being when you bend it if I put some of this on the drill bit actually it will it will help a lot with uh keeping the thread the the cut nice and nice and cooled and lubricated and uh just be a cleaner cut it's basically just dish soap so dish soap you can you can do this with too but it's basically just dish soap also too this is turning 600 RPM so I also double checked the pulleys I'm like wait is it spinning faster than it should 600 RPM is the lowest setting that's what it's on ideally you'd want like two to three hundred RPM for acrylic so doing the best I can with what I got so here's my Straight fluted because it's a square Chuck I have to make sure it's not wobbly like that's pretty wobbly so I'm kind of an idiot if I just go if I just Chuck it farther down on the shaft again the jokes are real it's round and not Square so then it can chuck evenly I'm gonna unplug this to make sure I don't do this by Power by accident put a little bit of pressure on there with the nozzle as I turn this by hand see now it's just pulling itself through it would have been nice if there were a nut or something on top of this that way I could put a wrench on it there's no chipping on that edge at all now one thing I was thinking too is I could thread it from the back side that way if it does Chip a little bit it won't be on the ceiling end ah perfect that because because the it's vertical okay one more on the thicker piece of material because the EK water blocks front part is thicker than that so just another good attempt here to make sure I've got the technique down and then we'll do the real thing because like I said I want you guys to see this all right so here we are in the thick metal it's super clean like it doesn't look any worse than any of the other ones that are on here and the O-ring absolutely seals you can see it on the back side you can you can see it's squished I don't know if you can tell so I'll tighten it up so there you can see the O-ring is like a kind of a light color and then as it squishes it turns darker so whether I picked up on camera or not and it's perfectly Square oh man imagine using a perfectly Vertical Press to do this and not by hand well I've had several successful test runs now I guess it's now time for the scary part so I just double checked on the system exactly where I want it to go I aligned my radiator full left that way I can get it away from these letters because I don't want to drill through the letters um so it's I basically am going to align it along with this indentation but just inset of it that way I know it's deep enough to give me fill so this will be my fill Port still I'll have this much space above the return so I won't get bubbling and percolating and stuff but it still will line up with the return line so I just have a 90 degree coming to it clean acrylic this is why I must tape and protect it okay that's where I want to go Can You Feel the anxiety oh man my I should have turned my heart reminder on the anxiety is real right now even though I have another one my current BPM 109. dad for you my normal heart rate like resting is like 60 63 yeah okay I'll leave it on it's 112. oh I'm glad I checked look at the it's wobbly see that's why I checked fate right now tried to give me to have a whole goal that is not okay now the heart rate is 110 okay there's no going back now getting wood chips now so I'm through okay the first part is done you know I'm gonna Trust that I have learned something through the 47 000 holes I've drilled in the last three days yes I just said three days that's how long I've been teaching myself how to do this correctly or at least it's correct enough okay this is more correct than I've been doing on things in this channel give me that would you truth so it's like I said some of these drill presses have a hand crank for this I don't it's nothing to literally twist the pulleys by hand so I'm holding the handle that way when it gets to the last thread this the handle spring doesn't pop it out and chip off the last thread just gotta wipe it clean right there but look at that I feel like in the office when uh Kevin was able to keep oster's secret and he was like I did it oh yes oh I did it oh I did it and it doesn't cover up the letters EK that's how it should have been not 95 of the job 100 of the job at least one port there or somewhere else even if it was aligned with over that way it doesn't interfere with the tube but somewhere here that way the reservoir make okay that one is done let's have a look at this guy because what I was saying is I would probably drill like a a drain right here on the back side that way I could get most of the system drained but I think I'll do it and the reason being is I have the other one if I pick up the back side then I don't have to worry about like oh I'm screwed because that was this acrylic did cut very very easily so I think we'll do it we'll just we'll put a drain port on the back there's that all kinds of material cut in there all right it says deburr this on the back side and this is actually pretty easy now now I know a lot of you might be plastic machinists or work at a machine shop that specializes in Plastics or something you're like dude this is like beginner level stuff and you're right but it's always scary the first time or in my instance the 75th time of trying to cut it but give me credit where credit is due I started trying to do it by hand with the drill I'm now like in the new bits and the Taps and all this I'm like four hundred dollars maybe at 350 bucks into trying this okay so let's put this back together there's the hole for the back for the drain that way I can go straight out the back side like I showed you so here's the moment of truth I have installed the pump on here I have sealed up the extra ports it's 222. we'll come back at 2 30. and see if it's still in the back moving still in the green all right it didn't move so that's a good sign let's go get it uh let's go get it in the rig and see if I can't bend a piece of tube real quick all right so the fittings are right here if you recall now I should be able to line them up perfectly with the red by being able to slide the red around if needed so I've got all this adjustment here so that way I can get it to line up perfectly so the pmma I've said this before a million times I love this stuff because I can get such a tight 90 Bend out of it and I use the corner of my table to get my 90 not using any jigs or anything like that plus it allows me to really be able to get it nice and tight because a lot of the 90 jigs out there are really relieved they're a nice big Arc because not all tubing can bend as tight as up as others so petg can't bend as tight as pnma the key is to give it about one extra degree that way when it cools and relieves a little bit it relieves back to 90. if for some reason it doesn't it stays too tight then you can always just hit it with a little heat and then hold it again so one of the nice things about working on the H9 is the fact that the front glass can be unscrewed so I'll have a lot of access to getting to this spot now to put my tubing in and not have to fight with reaching in there the nice thing is now I can use this as sort of a gauge to eyeball to eyeball where I need it so now I can do this and just sort of use this to kind of eyeball where my initial cuts are going to be first try look at that first try ah that's gonna be so much cleaner it was the perfect cut like I marked perfectly the first time and you know what I never do that that's so much cleaner than having to somehow figure out how it's going to go from there down to there hope you're watching EK these are some simple enhancements that you can do to your stuff so that I don't have to do this to your stuff although I do love it because it gives me content alright guys thanks for watching uh I hope to be able to use all of this in the future for more than just this otherwise it's about 150 a holeI told you guys when we came back I was going to try and do it right take your working gaming experience to the next level with the ViewSonic xg340c2k Ultra wide high-end display the xg340c2k 34 inch 100 Hertz ultrawide monitor features HDMI 2.1 AMD freesync premium Pro a 1000r curved screen Visa display HDR 400 and one millisecond response time for the ultimate immersive gaming experience and take control of multiple devices with KVM support while also taking full control of your display via the elite display controller to see the full list of specs and features follow the sponsored Link in the description below all right so the journey in learning how to drill through acrylic and stuff the right way uh continues and you know what I have the spare Reservoir right here ready to go because this this is the day today is the day and never gonna something with you anyway I said in that video to do it right like by the end of that video I made something that was acceptable by hand but what that taught me at least by doing it by hand is I could feel what was happening with the material so I could at least understand how to do it right so what I've got right here is just a basic Porter Cable 200 um bench top drill press which is just clamped down because one of the next videos you guys are going to see soon is me just doing this this this room just gives me anxiety this whole shop is a disaster but now that we have the belt sander and the drill press and we have the clamps and the skill saw and all this stuff that I want to start doing uh more custom stuff with my cases I need a place to have this stuff set up permanently so this whole area is going to be really kind of revamped that room is the review slash testing room this room needs to be the building where the computer builds and stuff happen and that's the problem is I have this space now and the builds take forever because I'm not utilizing my space efficiently and having an area where I can have a build set up and work on it while other things are happening so anyway a couple things we're going to do today um I got some new stuff too to kind of help with this I got a quality bit this is a high quality bit that was like 30 about 35 bucks for this one bit and the material I'm I already did a test drill just cuts through the acrylic like butter but I'm curious now how much of it is the drill press versus the cheap Harbor Freight bit so we'll do a test with that what I what I didn't do though is is uh tap the hole that I drilled so here's a test I want to show you I drilled this hole right here overlapping one of the chattered out cracked holes it's like San Bernardino crack right there but anyway uh as you can see it's a nice clean cut and it proved that most of the issues I was dealing with is trying to do it with hand tools because your hands are moving and this can't it can't jump the bit can't jump out so as I mentioned I clean I cramped I clamped this down to the table because you need it to be as stable as possible the whole drill press is moving that's a problem uh well I just also have some pie in here to use as a backing material what I will do with the actual product when I'm ready to do this next is I will be blue taping up the entire thing except for a square where I need to drill because I don't want it getting all scratched up obviously but for today's purposes of just practicing it doesn't it doesn't really matter so I'm gonna just pick a new spot here if you will um we'll go right there but before I do that I have to set the height of my drill so I'm gonna take the Chuck open this up I got a new countersink bit too two of them two different sizes so I can kind of see which one gives me the proper tapered Edge that way the O-ring can really have something to sit into we need to make sure this goes all the way through so I've got to raise this up so this is the part that if you don't have it lined up that's a problem for your bit right this is steel so let's just do like that right there clamp this guy so the purpose for this is to make sure it has the bit is cutting the material it's not pulling it up because it was going to want to pull it up because it's just a screw as you can see so there's this I'm also going to use my little blowing Metron here I told Nick we need to come up with like a gooseneck Mount or something that come out like a high-powered PC fan to this to blow away the debris because the cleaner we can keep the bit the better it'll be for uh the the smoothness of the cutting so I'm going to cut this hole right now with the new bit that I got let's put some water on there and then I'm going to cut a hole next to it with the crappy bit Harbor Freight and then see how well they compare oh that is so clean look at that hole She's a Beauty Clark so there's that very clean hole the back side's a little bit sharp a little bit rough because the bit just ate all the way through right so this is where the uh the countersink bits really come in handy you know to smooth all that out and if that if I leave that rough then the O-ring is not going to seal properly so that is regular well the nice bit I now want to try the crappy bit the very first thing I noticed when I turn it on that bit's wobbly I can even feel it like the whole thing shaking okay so first and foremost you guys saw on the other one when I was cutting it didn't make any noise even what I had when I had water or not so here I'll put water in it listen to this bit listen listen to the sound so I think it's going to be a little bit of a two-parter where and I'll finish the hole where it's better quality as well as better stability listen you can hear the wobbling of the bit listen because it's hitting the side of the bit as it goes around kind of oblong that's going tap tap tap against the side oh I bet you anything so when I was cutting with the uh the tap I noticed it was going not like a nice and I bet you that's because the bit one being by hand and two being wobbly is giving me a slightly oval hold just enough to where it was biting the edges unevenly I bet you anything anyway the two holes side by side that's the crappy bit that's the good bit by eye you cannot tell a difference but I can tell you just by the sound and the feel of the drill press that bit is wobbly which is obviously not going to do us any favors so anyway what I'm going to do next is I'm actually going to use this as my as my platform for using my what I'm gonna call it my my tap because I need the tap to be able to go through the hole and the problem is if I do on the edge of the table it's hanging off it can flex and I don't want to break the acrylic so I'm going to use this now ideally I would do this with a hand like they also have drill presses with a hand crank I can move it real slow I would prefer to drill press hand crank but this does not have that feature and it turns way too fast I would need to go very slow so unfortunately I I feel like that would be the next step if I find myself tapping holes all the time still looks crooked I wonder if that means my tap has gone in cricket all right there we go I got a perfect one I I ironically it was on the one with the bit but that's because I finally decided to use a teeth Square which is which is a triangle triangle square to make sure that the bit was Square as I start and then after it starts to cut test it again it was off on maybe a half a degree I was able to sort of straighten it out under tension and then go straight through uh I still think I maybe need to go a little deeper on the taper it just starts to get you can see how far I'm going based on where the material stops it just gets scary because it really gets hard to turn and I don't want to shatter the hole because I know that it's expanding the whole it's only sexual innuendos anyway it starts to really expand the hole as you go deeper and it's not like I can go the next size bit bigger whatever um I need to do this again now at least one or two more times cleanly but look at that look at that right there that is that is beautiful see a little bit of the black material that came off of the threads that's sitting in there but all right let's try it again we'll come back with the next hole okay so fast forward you guys have probably been screaming at your monitors for the last two videos at least the last video and then part of this one like Jay MPT is tapered you need s or BPS or British pipe standard or straight or something like that I forget what it is so this is what I was using and you can see it is very tapered what we have ordered and this is now obviously a day later from what you guys have already been watching is a g quarter by 19 straight fluted whereas this is a g quarter by or G quarter Dash 18 tapered flute now that we have the right thing it should just go through here without getting caught up this is one of their holes that they yeah look at that this is one of the holes that they cut see it just goes so anyway this is nice to have I guess for something else some other time the other thing too is because this is so much smaller it means my I even I even bought this big old that's a T handle right there right you've got this big OT handle to use for the bigger one because it wouldn't fit anything but I also did something else in order to make sure I get it started nice and straight it dawned on me I'm like Chuck it up in here cool down with that turn the pulley by hand and you know what it works pretty well so I just did that with it plugged in I'm an idiot anyway let's now test it again on this thin piece I have the other piece ready to go um so that we can maybe just get this done I also learned something else that uh if I use my Tube Lube this is for putting it on the cord that way the cord will slip into being when you bend it if I put some of this on the drill bit actually it will it will help a lot with uh keeping the thread the the cut nice and nice and cooled and lubricated and uh just be a cleaner cut it's basically just dish soap so dish soap you can you can do this with too but it's basically just dish soap also too this is turning 600 RPM so I also double checked the pulleys I'm like wait is it spinning faster than it should 600 RPM is the lowest setting that's what it's on ideally you'd want like two to three hundred RPM for acrylic so doing the best I can with what I got so here's my Straight fluted because it's a square Chuck I have to make sure it's not wobbly like that's pretty wobbly so I'm kind of an idiot if I just go if I just Chuck it farther down on the shaft again the jokes are real it's round and not Square so then it can chuck evenly I'm gonna unplug this to make sure I don't do this by Power by accident put a little bit of pressure on there with the nozzle as I turn this by hand see now it's just pulling itself through it would have been nice if there were a nut or something on top of this that way I could put a wrench on it there's no chipping on that edge at all now one thing I was thinking too is I could thread it from the back side that way if it does Chip a little bit it won't be on the ceiling end ah perfect that because because the it's vertical okay one more on the thicker piece of material because the EK water blocks front part is thicker than that so just another good attempt here to make sure I've got the technique down and then we'll do the real thing because like I said I want you guys to see this all right so here we are in the thick metal it's super clean like it doesn't look any worse than any of the other ones that are on here and the O-ring absolutely seals you can see it on the back side you can you can see it's squished I don't know if you can tell so I'll tighten it up so there you can see the O-ring is like a kind of a light color and then as it squishes it turns darker so whether I picked up on camera or not and it's perfectly Square oh man imagine using a perfectly Vertical Press to do this and not by hand well I've had several successful test runs now I guess it's now time for the scary part so I just double checked on the system exactly where I want it to go I aligned my radiator full left that way I can get it away from these letters because I don't want to drill through the letters um so it's I basically am going to align it along with this indentation but just inset of it that way I know it's deep enough to give me fill so this will be my fill Port still I'll have this much space above the return so I won't get bubbling and percolating and stuff but it still will line up with the return line so I just have a 90 degree coming to it clean acrylic this is why I must tape and protect it okay that's where I want to go Can You Feel the anxiety oh man my I should have turned my heart reminder on the anxiety is real right now even though I have another one my current BPM 109. dad for you my normal heart rate like resting is like 60 63 yeah okay I'll leave it on it's 112. oh I'm glad I checked look at the it's wobbly see that's why I checked fate right now tried to give me to have a whole goal that is not okay now the heart rate is 110 okay there's no going back now getting wood chips now so I'm through okay the first part is done you know I'm gonna Trust that I have learned something through the 47 000 holes I've drilled in the last three days yes I just said three days that's how long I've been teaching myself how to do this correctly or at least it's correct enough okay this is more correct than I've been doing on things in this channel give me that would you truth so it's like I said some of these drill presses have a hand crank for this I don't it's nothing to literally twist the pulleys by hand so I'm holding the handle that way when it gets to the last thread this the handle spring doesn't pop it out and chip off the last thread just gotta wipe it clean right there but look at that I feel like in the office when uh Kevin was able to keep oster's secret and he was like I did it oh yes oh I did it oh I did it and it doesn't cover up the letters EK that's how it should have been not 95 of the job 100 of the job at least one port there or somewhere else even if it was aligned with over that way it doesn't interfere with the tube but somewhere here that way the reservoir make okay that one is done let's have a look at this guy because what I was saying is I would probably drill like a a drain right here on the back side that way I could get most of the system drained but I think I'll do it and the reason being is I have the other one if I pick up the back side then I don't have to worry about like oh I'm screwed because that was this acrylic did cut very very easily so I think we'll do it we'll just we'll put a drain port on the back there's that all kinds of material cut in there all right it says deburr this on the back side and this is actually pretty easy now now I know a lot of you might be plastic machinists or work at a machine shop that specializes in Plastics or something you're like dude this is like beginner level stuff and you're right but it's always scary the first time or in my instance the 75th time of trying to cut it but give me credit where credit is due I started trying to do it by hand with the drill I'm now like in the new bits and the Taps and all this I'm like four hundred dollars maybe at 350 bucks into trying this okay so let's put this back together there's the hole for the back for the drain that way I can go straight out the back side like I showed you so here's the moment of truth I have installed the pump on here I have sealed up the extra ports it's 222. we'll come back at 2 30. and see if it's still in the back moving still in the green all right it didn't move so that's a good sign let's go get it uh let's go get it in the rig and see if I can't bend a piece of tube real quick all right so the fittings are right here if you recall now I should be able to line them up perfectly with the red by being able to slide the red around if needed so I've got all this adjustment here so that way I can get it to line up perfectly so the pmma I've said this before a million times I love this stuff because I can get such a tight 90 Bend out of it and I use the corner of my table to get my 90 not using any jigs or anything like that plus it allows me to really be able to get it nice and tight because a lot of the 90 jigs out there are really relieved they're a nice big Arc because not all tubing can bend as tight as up as others so petg can't bend as tight as pnma the key is to give it about one extra degree that way when it cools and relieves a little bit it relieves back to 90. if for some reason it doesn't it stays too tight then you can always just hit it with a little heat and then hold it again so one of the nice things about working on the H9 is the fact that the front glass can be unscrewed so I'll have a lot of access to getting to this spot now to put my tubing in and not have to fight with reaching in there the nice thing is now I can use this as sort of a gauge to eyeball to eyeball where I need it so now I can do this and just sort of use this to kind of eyeball where my initial cuts are going to be first try look at that first try ah that's gonna be so much cleaner it was the perfect cut like I marked perfectly the first time and you know what I never do that that's so much cleaner than having to somehow figure out how it's going to go from there down to there hope you're watching EK these are some simple enhancements that you can do to your stuff so that I don't have to do this to your stuff although I do love it because it gives me content alright guys thanks for watching uh I hope to be able to use all of this in the future for more than just this otherwise it's about 150 a hole\n"