Only if you have a mill?

[Heavytank2]

What kind of designs could you potentially make with just a dremel, drill press, and other standard tools. Droping anything more then $100 on tools seems highly unlikely at the moment.

[Pritorian]

About any design if you are willing to put inn the man hours and planning etc into it.

Don't really need a CNC machine, but it makes life a lot easier, and cuts down construction time ten times... at least

[Nightingale]

that and the designs turn out about a thousand times better. Currently I am trying to see if its possible to make a block with mainly just my table saw but we will see.

[jaydee]

Read the front page about my Lumpy Channel Block. You can do most of it with a drill press and dremel. Actually you don't need a dremel. You can connect the holes with a 1/16" endmill in the drill press theoretically.

[JFettig]

the lumpy channel block can be done with drill bits alone. that is if you can figure something out for the ends

ok, heres what ya do, you drill all the connectors first, that means drill 1/16" holes where it would be connecting the 1/8" hole, if you do it correctly you can drill the 1/8" hole right between 2 1/16" holes and call it good


Jon

[Nightingale]

ok this is the waterblock I have been wanting to make myself once I get access to a drill press. The only thing I am not sure if you can do with the drill press is the channel for the o-ring. Would it be possible to use a small dremel router setup with a 1/8 bit to cut a channel 2/32 deep in polycarbonate for the o-ring to sit instead of trying to machine it on the block?

[JFettig]

2/32" eh

anyway, its really difficult to make an O-ring groove that works without proper equiptment, I would suggest marine goop.

Jon

[Groth]

Gaskets work well.

[Nightingale]

yeah I was thinking of a small premade gasket myself. To bad my grandpa had to get rid of that CNC router or else I could have had him machine the plastic to my hearts content. He had to sell it he said to reclaim his garage.