I'm sorry for not being able to post these news yesterday as I told you I would,I had some problems with my ADSL connection, so here are the news:
I had a problem casting the block, I couldn't make a mold that is good enough because of some technical problems (about the form of the block), the model ill have to be rebuilt from scratch, I already started and it sould take a few days. So again I'm really sorry for those of you who are waiting.
Now to the good things, the new design has been improved in many aspects, those little waves side by side would probably cause some "dead spots" in the lower part between them so they are now square, a little bigger and there is some more distance between each one. The artifacts in the bottom are now different, they are like "fat" cones, like the heads from the movie Coneheads (now that was a stupid comment
, that should improve heat transfer a lot. I'm thinking about adding a big hole, as in the size of the core but round on top of the core so the copper would be thinner in there, it's 4mm now. The new blast furnace is working perfectly and I got access to a 478 pin P4 for testing the block, of course it will be extensively tested on my XP as well.
That I'm not sure but the top should be a very dark shade of gray with the letters ACS extruded and painted in white.
I can't tell exactly when I will be able to start selling it, I will probably have lots of blocks by next week (I said probably), but the problem is in the payment methods as the shipping scheme is already ready, anyways I don't want this post to get commercial so if anyone wants to talk to me about anything else than the block's design e-mail me at
bjfacca@terra.com.br.
Thanks
Bruno Facca