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diy Water block, How thin is to thin?

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Xargon

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Dec 20, 2002
Just wondering about the thickness of the base on a copper water block, general whats good whats not etc.. looking at making a basic spiral design, was looking at about 2mm thick but i think that might be to thin.
 
You don't want to make it too thin because copper is a soft metal and I'm not sure exactly how much pressure a pump would put into the block, but you wouldn't want it to blast through the base :p
 
From what I've seen around. 2mm is the thinist you'd want to go.

It's not the pump pressure, but the block mounting pressure
you need to worry about.

Warping a block, while mounted because of excessive pressure
would really suk the big mabo.
 
ok, im going to use a lexan top tho i have a bunch of leftover lex that i cant use for a res. or anything so ill use it to cover the top i think i have my design figured out. the inlet will be right over the core area and the outlet will be at the above the inlet going to figure a spring mounting system for it here soon, first i got to find of copper stock :)

also how wide should the channels be?
 
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