jaydee116,
I never anticipated that that heavy copper could flex, hehe, but It would have been a pain to add bolts on the top and bottom because the raised bit of the socket gets in the way. its hard for me to cut out part of the bottom coldplate. I guess i could buy some 3/8" copper to make a new coldplate that has holes drilled in the top and bottom too, and i could put a cross bar over the top of the block. It would be ugly though. i wonder if i could solder extentions on the top and bottom of my block.
lol rgathright,
i wasnt going to until i got my temps down, but basically its just a
lumpy channel (thanks jaydee) block. I printed out a plan, punched holes, drilled them, then connected them with a reinforced dremel cutoff wheel on a lathe. the holes are drilled slightly deeper than the channels. I kept a logbook
here