Yes I do believe that would work (the grinding down, arbor disc saw thing)
though if you had a setup that could do accurate cuts with the disc saw you could skip the whole skived heaksink step and start from a raw peice of copper...
as for how it would perform, well I couldn't say, I saw massive improvements in my micropin block after I altered it with the fewer pins and higher volecity water flow, the improvement was so large in fact that I'll be revisiting the jet designes I used when I was direct die cooling in my next block. I will of course post full results if works well
yea I got the 20RZ, quite happy with it, on the suction side it will flatten 5/8'' vinyl tubing if you block the end, neat
, I can use 90 degree elbows everywhere and it just just doesn't care.
It's very quiet, the metal casing get's quite warm, I ended up zip tieing a couple of heatsinks to it (mainly for my own peice of mind) I'm sure it doesn't need them though (it is a light industrial pump after all) heat into the water is very minimal, similar to a little submersable 7w pump.
It would be a tight squeeze in a case, not impossible, but tight.