Home made water block

[ve6jhc]

Here is a photo of my home made water coolers. They are made of 2" copper end caps soldiered together. The fittings are machined into the top and have 1/4 barbs for my cooling lines. I pressure tested the units to 80 psi. I am currently using the smaller unit as there is no difference in cooling between the pair. I mounted the block to the CPU using nylon bolts through the MB to a piece of Plexi. Keeps my Tbird 1000 at 41C under full load.

[The Overclocker]

nice, professional look(unlike mine) is there anything inside or just a hole?

[Crazy Jayhawk]

I like the look of those things.

If it's just empty space inside, you could easily put in some copper plates to make a sort of a maze layout inside the block.

[ve6jhc]

The inside of the blocks are hollow. When I run my system hard and then touch my puck it is cool as is my cooling lines. I tested the coolers by using a torch on a piece of 1/16 plate with my puck sitting on top of the plate. The metal plate would get red hot but I was able to remove the puck and touch the metal of the puck without buring my hand. I was able to hold the torch on the metal for a long time before I had any real increase in water temp. I also have a Danger Den Mase 2 and the cooling performance is the same as with my own blocks.

[train22]

where do you buy those copper caps?

[ve6jhc]

Any plumbing supply store. There are the caps that they use to close off a pipe.