Author: Kenneth Ballard

Finally the day arrives that I can finish tubing out the build. The night before I made sure to get some tubing from Home Depot. In the afternoon I made sure to...

While waiting for the overnight order to arrive, I took advantage of the fittings I did have to see if I could get tubing bent for the two runs I wanted to clea...

Finally we come to the part of the build that I have been looking forward to for weeks: connecting the dots. The first order of business, though, wasn’t r...

Wednesday didn’t see much action on Absinthe due to some thunderstorms that rolled through the KC area, so I took the time to plan out what was going to h...

Monday was a night off from working on Absinthe. Tuesday I ended up staying home from work due to some dizzy spells that greeted me when I woke up. And anyone w...

Another Saturday was upon us! Time to get to work! The drain port was my first move. I knew I needed to cut a hole in the bottom for it, but how was the questio...

Orders have arrived and some more assembly has progressed. One concern I had with the loop at the end of the previous iteration was how I was going to add the r...

Already to part 6 of this series and I still haven’t assembled anything resembling a water cooling loop – with the exception of getting both radiators mou...

I picked up the order from my local FedEx office, which included: 2 x Swiftech 90-degree single rotary fittings 10-pack Primochill Rigid Revolver compression fi...