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It is FINISHED! Infact, got it in my machine. The temperature results are less than impressive, but i'll go on about that issue after the pictures....
Well first off, due to some machining limitations, I have no jet impingment or turbulance on the core. Mostly due to messing up the baseplate design JUST enough that I couldn't fit a nozzle in the center. I am seeing if I can whip up a midplate for this block to fix that, but time constraints might ruin that for me (this was a highschool senior engineering project). As of now, this performs on par with my IceFloe waterblock from AquaXtreme, even though it probably has 5-8 times the surface area. I guess jet impingment and turbulance REALLY DO matter that much. As you can see the block is stepped, and I lapped it later on (sorry but no pictures, it is already mounted heh). The mounting bracket is a little crude, but that is what you get when you have a friends uncle machine it for free out of some scrap aluminum. I decided to post a picture of what I actually wanted, but apparently that would of cost me some money hehe. Same thing with the interesting tubing run. The guy (friends uncle) tapped the holes some very strange threading (NPT 1/4"??) when I asked for G1/4 OR NPT3/8. So apparently I get neither and have to use 3/8" barbs. I went to homedepot and grabbed some 3/8" to 1/2" barb converters so thats why it is a little strange. The top is made out of an unknown material, it is just what he had on hand. It is supposidly delrin-like in properties, just not anywhere near as hot looking >.<. Though I still have to give my friends uncle major props for donating the time to make this. Without him it would of never gotten finished (other manufacturing places were asking for way more money than I was willing to spend for a project).
Another issue was I screwed up the o-ring channel, so to fix that I went and grabbed some liquid silicon gasket material and just put that in the channels instead. Works great, no leaks, just not re-usable haha, got to reapply it every time I take apart the block.
If anything this was a pretty great learning experience. If I get the chance to make another one it'll definatly fix the mistakes made with this one. As they always say, onwards and upwards!
Well first off, due to some machining limitations, I have no jet impingment or turbulance on the core. Mostly due to messing up the baseplate design JUST enough that I couldn't fit a nozzle in the center. I am seeing if I can whip up a midplate for this block to fix that, but time constraints might ruin that for me (this was a highschool senior engineering project). As of now, this performs on par with my IceFloe waterblock from AquaXtreme, even though it probably has 5-8 times the surface area. I guess jet impingment and turbulance REALLY DO matter that much. As you can see the block is stepped, and I lapped it later on (sorry but no pictures, it is already mounted heh). The mounting bracket is a little crude, but that is what you get when you have a friends uncle machine it for free out of some scrap aluminum. I decided to post a picture of what I actually wanted, but apparently that would of cost me some money hehe. Same thing with the interesting tubing run. The guy (friends uncle) tapped the holes some very strange threading (NPT 1/4"??) when I asked for G1/4 OR NPT3/8. So apparently I get neither and have to use 3/8" barbs. I went to homedepot and grabbed some 3/8" to 1/2" barb converters so thats why it is a little strange. The top is made out of an unknown material, it is just what he had on hand. It is supposidly delrin-like in properties, just not anywhere near as hot looking >.<. Though I still have to give my friends uncle major props for donating the time to make this. Without him it would of never gotten finished (other manufacturing places were asking for way more money than I was willing to spend for a project).
Another issue was I screwed up the o-ring channel, so to fix that I went and grabbed some liquid silicon gasket material and just put that in the channels instead. Works great, no leaks, just not re-usable haha, got to reapply it every time I take apart the block.
If anything this was a pretty great learning experience. If I get the chance to make another one it'll definatly fix the mistakes made with this one. As they always say, onwards and upwards!
