Recently changed components, and decided to switch to water-cooling. Buy a store does not want to, so he did. Taken as a basis Alphacool NexXxoS X2 Hiflow Bold And away we go.... Modeled parts And began production. As a result, the following happened. Copper. The lower part. Brass middle part. Top side. Brass middle part. Bottom side. Details after sanding, sandblasting and coating. Now bear for gaskets. Mold will be out of the sealant. Let's start with the forms. Milling of Plexiglas. Then apply a separating layer, so that the sealant is not stuck to the walls of the mold. Putting together the two halves. And begin to drive the sealant. As a result, fill completely. A day untwist, sever and voila. Fitting. And now the most "delicious", the upper part. In the model looks like. Sticking a piece, transparent + black plexiglass. Milling recesses therein. Then fill the resulting deepening cold enamel. After drying, grind, polish and cut the threads 1/4. And finally, all three parts side by side. Next in line radiator ....
I am curious to see how will work once it is done. Why not go all out copper? But does look great so far!
why didnt you take the base of a decent performance block? since you could have used a heatkiller lc bottom for only 25 euro. must say your way of making an oring is quite smart.
Because the middle part, in principle, does not take part in the process of heat transfer, it pumps the flow to the center of the heat sink.
That plexiglass top design looks amazing. Milling it and then using cold enamel, I would of never thought of that. lol.
Cold enamel-BRILLIANT! That fixes the limited color problem. I've tried making my own seals like that too, but they always ripped or stuck to the mold. Any tips?
Spacer layer - the usual soap. A saturated solution is applied to the form and dried. Crushing through a syringe.
Very nicely done! Are injection plates the thing in waterblocks again? They fell out of fashion for a long while and I never quite understood why... Did you/have you looked at the work of Cathar? The G4 became the Swiftech Storm, the G5 was a limited run of silver blocks, and he (unfortunately) never made the G6's or G7's. Rather than injecting at a pin array, the injectors focused the coolant into pits (or cups) each with a pin inside here's probably the best set of images still around. He skipped the G6 and planned but never created G7. Each iteration used the same area of the cold-plate for the cups&pins but had increased numbers of pits diagonally (centre to edge) 5 in the G5, the 4 in the G4 and it would have been 7 in the G7. Interesting design, but fairly expensive to implement well. oop - there we go, prototype C7
