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Long Haired Git · 05-29-2003, 06:26 AM

I have been working with this too.
If anyone has a copper cored radiator or heater core I'd love to know.

All I can find in aluminium and brass.

Annoyingly, when I pursued making my own, the thinnest wall for copper I could get was 4 times thicker than brass.

Check out the respective K values and you'll find brass around 3 times worse, so the thinner brass is better than thicker copper....

05-29-2003, 06:26 AM	#2
Long Haired Git Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Sydney, Oz Posts: 336	I have been working with this too. If anyone has a copper cored radiator or heater core I'd love to know. All I can find in aluminium and brass. Annoyingly, when I pursued making my own, the thinnest wall for copper I could get was 4 times thicker than brass. Check out the respective K values and you'll find brass around 3 times worse, so the thinner brass is better than thicker copper.... __________________ Long Haired Git "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." (Prof. Gene Spafford) My Rig, in all its glory, can be seen best here AMD XP1600 @ 1530 Mhz \| Soyo Dragon + \| 256 Mb PC2700 DDRAM \| 2 x 40 Gb 7200rpm in Raid-0 \| Maze 2, eheim 1250, dual heater cores! \| Full specifications (PCDB)