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Originally posted by gmat
This is totally overkill maybe, but people, remember this is not the point here. Let's keep constructive comments.
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Price/practicality is always a point IMO. At $500 for a 1mm plate who is going to buy it and who is going to make it. For a 3mm plate (still think it will break) is what? $600-$700 maybe over a $1,000? Then the cost of making it? Ouch. Better off with somekind of active cooling and a Copper block. I thought the price was known or I would have pointed it out in my last post. If it was only $50 I would have done it already just for bragging rights of having a diamond WB even if it didn't work.
If someone wants to afford this and give it a shot have at it though. Otherwise Silver is still an option and hasn't been done to much yet. Only can think of a couple playing with it. You can get a 5oz 99.5% pure bar for what? $25? What could be milled into a nice insert of somekind where most of the water contact would still be on the silver so the heat transfer between metals wouldn't be much of an issue. I have no clue how to mill silver or how hard it is to work with. One of these days I may try it just to see for myself. Can't be harder than diamonds though.