Money spent on endmills, drillbits, wet/dry sandpaper, solder, propane, etc... didn't exceed $200 US (to my best recollection)
Time spent ... well... hmm... for the whole project to the last "beauty shots" was about 4+ hours a day 3+ days a week for about two months... you do the math.
Satisfaction... priceless. I now have a water cooling solution that no other person posseses and I designed and built it myself.
Not too shabby for a guy with no college education...
