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Sin22 · 09-15-2003, 07:18 AM

Ok, this is my first pure self-made block. Have had a plethora of blocks now including both the WW & Cascade.

My first foray into wb modifications was with a simple budget maze style block some info of which can be found here.

This is what I had in mind based of a pelton wheel design and something mentioned by eletric_flip inside the "Introducing the Cascade wb" thread on OCAU here. It appeared to be a simple and possibly effective concept to try.

Thats what the conceptual design was.

This is what I managed to come up with

Three plates, each of 1.5mm thickness. I'll tell you this, its hard to be exactly accurate when you have so little thickness to play with. We're talking abt 0.4mm between the base of the cup and the other end. Measured it using some vernier calipers.

Each plate is then siliconed and epoxied to one another and I'm going to let that cure overnight.

On completion it ought to look like this.

Barbs are 1/2" plastic. Material is 2024 Aluminum, aircraft grade aluminum sheeting. I would have prefered to use copper, but it aint the cheapest thing around here in Sydney as seen in this thread. And since I have got free access to the aluminum, I'll be using that for the time being.

I have yet to mount it, letting the epoxy cure overnight properly. Will post results once I do.

I do have a chipset block in the works and will post once completed.

09-15-2003, 07:18 AM	#1
Sin22 Cooling Neophyte Join Date: May 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 66	My clover block Ok, this is my first pure self-made block. Have had a plethora of blocks now including both the WW & Cascade. My first foray into wb modifications was with a simple budget maze style block some info of which can be found here. This is what I had in mind based of a pelton wheel design and something mentioned by eletric_flip inside the "Introducing the Cascade wb" thread on OCAU here. It appeared to be a simple and possibly effective concept to try. Thats what the conceptual design was. This is what I managed to come up with Three plates, each of 1.5mm thickness. I'll tell you this, its hard to be exactly accurate when you have so little thickness to play with. We're talking abt 0.4mm between the base of the cup and the other end. Measured it using some vernier calipers. Each plate is then siliconed and epoxied to one another and I'm going to let that cure overnight. On completion it ought to look like this. Barbs are 1/2" plastic. Material is 2024 Aluminum, aircraft grade aluminum sheeting. I would have prefered to use copper, but it aint the cheapest thing around here in Sydney as seen in this thread. And since I have got free access to the aluminum, I'll be using that for the time being. I have yet to mount it, letting the epoxy cure overnight properly. Will post results once I do. I do have a chipset block in the works and will post once completed. Last edited by Sin22; 09-16-2003 at 02:11 AM.