What do you think

[Pricey]

Hey Guys,

I'm making a watercooler for a pc for a school assignment and since money is tight I've decided to make my own block.

I've decided to go with a design similar to this one.



This is my design...





What do you think,
A : Are the jets nessesary?
B : What tools will i need?
C : What is a good base thickness?
Cheers,
Pricey

[DrCooling™]

A : nop
B : drill press, hand hawk, winch (taladrio de pedestal, cierra de mano, torno)
C : try it


that block is made by me , and the construction is very expensive. Like that 70 U$ (su construccion es muy cara)

[sn_85]

Originally Posted by Pricey

Hey Guys,

I'm making a watercooler for a pc for a school assignment and since money is tight I've decided to make my own block.

I've decided to go with a design similar to this one.



This is my design...





What do you think,
A : Are the jets nessesary?
B : What tools will i need?
C : What is a good base thickness?
Cheers,
Pricey

a lot of times going the DIY route can get more expensive then u initially think. the cost of materials might seem cheaper but then u end up running to home depot or something to get 3 dollars of this and then 3 dollars of that. expenses that u didnt calculate before. probably best to get one of the blocks from dtek. the spiral or the tc-4. both are only $25 and prob like 8 bucks shipping.

[Etacovda]

You'll notice he said it was for a school project. I doubt he'd get very high marks if he went out and brought a block, but making your own gets higher marks

[sn_85]

Originally Posted by Etacovda

You'll notice he said it was for a school project. I doubt he'd get very high marks if he went out and brought a block, but making your own gets higher marks

its prob for a HS proj anyways, the teacher wont notice or care. but maybe that was just my school. i can remember getting away w/ a lot of crap in HS. and hey if u do get a low score at least u have good block.

[Pricey]

Yes, I know the teacher wont know or care if I bought it or not but I would like to make one.

I'm going to water from a stock HS and have had no experiance in mounting a HS/Block on the socket. How should I go about it?

BTW I saw SlaterSpeed's block



It would be much easier to make...

I dont want to spend a fortune on making the block but I am commited to creating/cloning one.

What do you reccomend? Or what is a really good performing block thats easy to make and reliable?

Cheers,
Pricey

[SlaterSpeed]

Attualy i would say my block would be harder to make. You would need a mill with some specilist tooling.

Dr.Coolings one would need a lathe with some specilist tooling so it wont be much easyer

I would sugggest you try something like a rotor# try your original design but leave out the channels around the edge. you would be able to do that with a drill press and dremel and it would not be too bad performance wise.

Mounting the block is not hard. i would suggest you but a mounting kit from dangerden and use that.

[DrCooling™]

this is my solution easy and cheap




only with dremel, drill press and a liltle talent

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/3854/dsc00232.jpg

P.D.: Sorry for my english :shrug:

[SlaterSpeed]

Yeh thats more or less exactly what i mean

[Pricey]

Well, I think that sounds pretty good.

I am boarding at a college and I think I may be able to have access to a lathe and miller, they only have 2mm bits, so I may have to go out and get some...

I will try the Easy & Cheap design.

A : Slaterspeed, How wide are your channels (if you mind saying so)?
B : What are the bits used for cutting through Copper, and how much are they approximately? Yes I know I should go out and find myself but being a boarder its a tad hard...

Thanks,
Pricey

[SlaterSpeed]

A : Slaterspeed, How wide are your channels (if you mind saying so)?

about 1mm wide and 4mm deep leaving 1mm base thickness