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Unread 01-03-2005, 06:24 PM   #3
starbuck3733t
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Well, at least its not a complete embarassment. Not a bad effort considering it was done on an x-y slide vise and a drill press using endmills in some places.

I lined up the holes by drilling the middle and then putting the copper underneath the middle after I milled out the plenum and the chamber on the bottom and went down through the existing holes. That was with a 3/32" drill bit. The neat thing is my 5/32" drill bit has a 3/32" "anti skid" starter tip, so I just alingned everything so that the bit slide nicely into the existing 3/32" hole and drilled i did.

The initial drilling of the jet holes was done by gluing the cad template to the top of the middle plexi and eyeballing it on the slide vise. probably would have worked out better if the template hadn't kept coming up. Grr.

If it performs better than my maze4 i'll be happy.... then I'll make a 'better' one with 4 outlets when I get around to my hybrid design (Aquacomputer video, chipset blocks with a change of barbs on my silentstar and a custom VRM block using AC fittings).

And the tubes are thick, but its the most suitable thing I found in my hobby shop. I was thinking of using coffee swizzle sticks but I couldn't find any that were small enough diameter.
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