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REV. 2.0 Micro "PYRAMID" pins. (pics)
No points for using common hand tools here.
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pyrmid style pins that are 1/16" at base and 1/32" at top. I have a 1/4" peice of acrylic for a spacer for water flow and a 1/4" peice for the top peice. the depth of the pins are .030". Base is 1/8" aluminum (lack of copper). All I can tell you is it only took about 15mins. ![]() |
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damn thats cool, what machine did you use? is it just a cnc mill?
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A small diameter cutting wheel (or similar)? Looking good with the waterblock, but I would have liked to see the base made of copper instead. But I guess you're finetuning the blocks design first?
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Nice job jaydee. Youre turning out more blocks than Ford is putting out pick-up trucks!!
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jaydee, try Alcobra metals on the north side (4510 N. Freya), they have lots of copper and aluminum. They have scrap pieces in all shapes and sizes that you can pick out. Not the best prices in the world, but pretty good.
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They used to be open for several hours on Saturdays. I don't know if they do that anymore though.
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I could do that to a piece of wood in about the same amount of time using the router, a couple clamps, and a couple pieces of wood for straight-edges to guide the router along. But somehow I get the feeling that the router would really not appreciate having a piece of aluminum shoved into it's bit.
Then again, if you can get shaped bits for CNC's like you can for routers, that block is nothing but a grid drawn with a pointy bit not set very deep. Either way, looks damn nice. What we really need now is an online non-profit store where we can buy home-built blocks. A page somewhere on ProCooling where all you block-makers can list your items along with a price, and readers can put in an order and have one made/shipped to him, ProCooling would just be used to connect the buyers/sellers. If you could run ASP or ASP.NET instead of php I'd code it for you myself. |
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I found my 1/8" C110 copper stock this morning and just ran a base out with it. Still only took 15mins. ![]() The machine is a Xenetech XOT 1625 rotory engraver. http://www.xenetech.com/html/1625.htm I will probably not be able to use it in the future for this and will end up going back to the drilled holes in REV. 3.0. But while I have the chance I thought I would try it out. Then I can test against the drilled holes later. |
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http://www.portagespecialty.com/custom/BrassHose.html
Had to post that link so I would remember it later. ![]() Got 3 bases done with holes drilled and taped and got 3 sets of acrylic peices to go with it. So now I just need to get some 5/8" long screws, tap the barb holes, drill the 4 mounting holes, and seal them up and pressure test them for a while. |
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Copper base.
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Lookin good jaydee!
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so when you gonna tell us what tool you used?
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![]() ![]() I used this machine http://www.xenetech.com/html/1625.htm and one of these: http://www.signtools.com/engravingcutters.html |
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are my pins too big? nah.
btw, cool machine |
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Anyone following my thread similar to this at overclockers.com that has any comments or questions will have to e-mail or post it here. Seems they decided to not allow msn addy's. Well MSN is my ISP so screw them.
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jaydee116:
![]() Well. I used a normal flute and moved the pinol 45 degrees. ![]() |
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Finally got the screws needed to put this thing together. My scedual is not looking good though. Going to have a SolidWorks2003 tutorial today from a freind of mine. Also have my daughter all weekend and she is only 6 so that keeps me from running machines. I might be able to drill out the mounting holes and seal the block up tomorrow though. I ordered a new 1700+ TBred yesterday and plan on having this block done and ready for it by the time it gets here wendsday or thursday, but if i can manage to get the mounting holes drilled tomorrow I will be able to mount it after the sealant dries. Clear RTV for the copper base to the middle acrylic peice and IPS Weld On #4 for the acrylic to acrylic. It isn't going to take much. I bolted it together without sealant and it will hold 15PSI with minimul leakage!
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Me too!!!
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Got the block sealed up and leak testing it now. Going to install it tomorrow on my Duron 1gig@1.2gig tomorrow for a test run before I drop the New TBred in there when it arrives.
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