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Unread 10-08-2004, 12:08 AM   #7
PaulDriver
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Ummm, O.K.

Whats the waterflow going to be?

This is a serpintine radiator, or is it going to be a tanked thin tube multipass unit like a heatercore.

Serpintine ASCII example, the = are the barbs.

input
=----------\
/-----------/
\-----------\
/-----------/
\----------= output

Parallel ASCII example

|#|==========|#|= input
|#|==========|#|
|#|==========|--| flow seperator
|#|==========|#|
|#|==========|#|= output

the |#| is the tank. A multipass radiator uses multiple think tubes to increase the surface area, while retaing the flow rate.

Yor picture looks like it's tanked, but I don't understand how you are going to force the flow thru the tubes.

Also, have you ever soldered a heatercore or radiator before? I once cut a heatercore down so a 120MM find would fit it perfectly (in fact I still use it) , as I was dealing with a very tight fit. soldering that thing back together was a [expletive deleted].

Paul.
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