Got a bar of aluminum, ideas?

RoadWarrior · Sep 1, 2002

Hi guys,

Just picked up a bar of aluminum that's about 3/4 inch x 3/8 inch x 5 ft long at a yard sale. I was thinking I could cut some RAM sinks or VID-RAM sinks out of it, or something. I could set my table saw to cut 1/4 inch deep, and saw slots in a length of it, then chop it into smaller lengths according to use. Maybe I could cross cut it as well. But since I'll have to leave the fins fairly thick I think to avoid probs and the cut width will be around 1/8 then crosscutting might not leave much metal standing.

Anyhoo, any other ideas? got plenty of the stuff to screw around with.

Road Warrior

Skiing Squirrel · Sep 1, 2002

Ram sinks. Vid sinks. Try and screw around with making a waterblock. That is, if your bored!

Intrepid · Sep 1, 2002

Hmmm... Good idea, you might also try makin a chipset coler or sound card heatsink, I know I had to put one on my Audigy and when I get my audigy plat I'm gonna put one on it too. Also heatsinks for the backside of a vid card might not be a bad idea.

[EG]~NaTz~ · Sep 1, 2002

a cross drilled memory waterblock
like they said all the random heatsinks
a cool harddrive rack
uhhhhh network card heatsink.
the basics you know.

steveyboy · Sep 2, 2002

make some new ramsinks and get some artic alumina epoxy to slap em on your vid card

hellrazrblade · Sep 3, 2002

i'm thinking you should trick out your case!
a pair of polished aluminum racing stripes on it or something!
here's the funny part: im not kidding!

anyway, i think that it would look tight on the outside of the case. what color is the case?

Intrepid · Sep 3, 2002

I was gona sugest that but does he have enough material for that?

RoadWarrior · Sep 3, 2002

Yeah, that would kinda look nice but it seems kinda like a waste of the stock. I could get some brass or chrome trim from the hardware store for that.

Intrepid · Sep 3, 2002

That does sound sweet now that I think about it...

I might try it with my liam-li pc-61 (which needs a new side window)

hellrazrblade · Sep 3, 2002

hehe, im not an overclocker cuz its practical! but honestly, other than ramsinks and waterblocks, theres very little to do with it.

DRaZZ · Sep 4, 2002

Cut the block in half, then using a router, bore a maze shape thru it, in the other half drill and inlet and an outlet, there ya have a water block

hellrazrblade · Sep 4, 2002

for what?!?!?! like 10 hdd's lined up front to back?!

RoadWarrior · Sep 4, 2002

Yeah it's not really a shape that one might consider making a one piece water block out of. 0.75 ins wide .... .... ....

I did think I might be able to stack a load of cutouts to be bolted together and try a block like that.

Liss · Sep 4, 2002

make a waterblock

liss.focusindia.com

use a copper base..

hellrazrblade · Sep 4, 2002

i just had an idea, but i dont know how hard it will be to pull off.
cut the bar in 3" peices and drill 4 holes straight through each so that they would line up. then make 2 end peices with inlets and outlets and channels for the water to go from one set of holes to the next. it sure would be an interesting way to make a water block because it would require much less milling. it would really only require drilling and very minimal milling. i'll draw up a rough schematic if i'm not being clear.

i think this is similar to what you were talking about road warrior, but its a little different at least

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