cpu block screws too thick!

Mick.T.Phallus

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I'm building a computer and having mad ball ache with the screws on the xspc raystorm cpu block the screws are too thick. I've been filing them but can only get the tip screwed into the backplate and on an angle but soon as I started tightening the second bolt down they spring up! Is this normal for these? There's 2 lots of screws one without an head and one with which I'm using, the ones without an head are even thicker. Would have been a whole lot easier if the friggin screws fit, was looking forward to this build, I'm now getting that homesick feeling for air cooling

First watercooling attempt too much money spent to fck it up!

cheers
 
No there is a fixed head, the one with no head is for a motherboard with threads and you don't need a backplate. I used some of the short bolts from the alphacool st30 radiators to screw the block down.
I'm still doing this btw about 20hours upto now all together. I'm upto the water bit and just got a leak forgot the O ring on one fitting! I can't understand why the outtake on the res is at the top every time the water gets down to it (3/4 mark) the water stops going down. I've seen videos of builds with this same pump/res combo and the water went right down!

Thanks for your reply, I think I saw something that said they are m4 screws they aren't right anyway far too thick to catch the thread on the fanny bit.
 
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I can understand missing components but im skeptical that you would receive incorrect M screws.

Have you tried screwing them in to the back plate directly without the motherboard?

Btw once you start filing them, they will never screw in smoothly. The diagram shows the screws are M3. (diagram 4 of the Fitting the Waterblock (Intel 1366, 1156, 1150)

MAybe the thread holes in the back plate which you attach too aren't cleaned and were tapped with a rough tool so slightly burred?
 
I haven't got that diagram I have got a booklet but can't see anything that mentions m3 but I know now the m4 screws are for a motherboard with threads so I was wrong. The backplate took the rad screws no problem and I can see the block screws are thicker than the rad screws. I did try to screw them into the backplate on its own I was at it for over 3 hours I tried everything even lubing the holes and screws. The diagram does seem to show 3 different types of screws and I only got 2. The amd ones look shorter and fatter than the intel ones in the booklet but saying that I have tried to screw these into the amd backplate and they were too thick as well the first thread catches and on an angle the second one does. I filed them so much the thread has nearly gone and they are still too thick! Must have been a freak because I know how to screw!

Finished now anyway left it bleeding last night and just have to sort wires out. I can definitely say I had a nightmare last night about screws and tubes, it was one of them where you move in slow motion and everything is proper hard I may or may not have been awake. I also think I got my first grey pube over the last 2 days!

Thanks for the replies.

Running nice and cool, 21c cpu and 30c gpu, it's all lit up green and blue!
 
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