/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>351815
is it a bad idea to build your own? or is that only if your going to use it for VERY precise work?

>>351888
I know there are kits you can use to build one.
This one wasn't built from a kit, it's a professional one.

water cooling block for gpu/cpu.

>>353441
I would not suggest doing this as a first project, you'll tear your hair out trying to figure out how to hold it.

Something like this would be a better alternative. Just use stock thicker than the part itself so you can do the corners.

>>353461
It's about .750 thick.

>>353441
are those coax N connectors

what the hell is that for

>>353471
Those are compression style fittings for flexible tubing.
You replace the heatsink/fan unit on a video card with this so you can tie the video card into the rest of your watercooling loop.

>>353461

> Clamp copper stock in vise
> Drill and tap mounting holes
> Make jig to hold stock by mounting holes

Don't see how it would be all that difficult. Hell, you could even just drill and tap the holes for the cover plate and use those instead, better distribution of pressure holding it down.

>>353488
How do you make sure you're not grounding things out on the PCB?

>>353507

When milling the waterblock, you will take off probably a tenth of an inch of material from the side facing the PCB (cept where the block should be making contact i.e. graphics chip and vram) which along with the mounting hardware will prevent contact with any exposed parts of the PCB.

>>353501
\You're forgetting the part where he's a beginner. He has enough to worry about without dealing with that kind of crap. God have mercy if he's forced to use a non-HAAS controller for the first time.

>>351815

a first project on new equipment, for the purposes of learning the equipment, should be something 'conservative', well within your skillset. you're trying to learn the machine, right? not get distracted with solving problems in the project.

>>353541
I pray he's never so unfortunate as to have to use a haas controller or machine. They're a joke even before a Doosan.

>>353576
And what's wrong with HAAS? They're great machines and use a simple, easy to use controller.

>>353579
they're cheap. That's really all they have going for them. You see, not every engineering firm which requires a CNC can warrant spending $$$$ on a new okuma, mazak or mori seiki, so they get a haas. Even in the lower tier niche market of CNC, the korean and Taiwanese machine tools are better value

>>353585
So you'd trust chinkshit over something made in the US?

>>353590
oh boy I can only assume this is the mother of all trolls.

US made machine tools are utter rubbish. Anyone seriously involved in the industry knows this.

You're clapped out j-head bridgeport is far surpasses in fit and finish as well as performance and price by its modern taiwanese copy.

>>353594
*surpassed

additionally, quite a lot of you're so called US made HAAS machines come from other 'chink' countries. Encoder, ballscrews, motors, linear guides, electronics, bearings..........

>>353594

sad but true. chinese make shit, if you buy shit. they also make fine stuff. surprise! it costs more.

this racist 'chinese crap' is exactly the same as 'jap crap' in the early 1960's. they started making transistor radios cheap. (they did make crap too, i have a "16 transistor" radio that has 12 non-workign transistors soldered to the board!). everyone made fun of them, but they cost $4. then they started copying West German cameras... then japanese cameras became the standard.

who's laughing now at japanese tech?

chinese are doing the same thing, for similar reasons, 10X faster and 100X larger.

i buy the best quality i can afford, sometimes it's chinese, japanese, american, wherever.

jingoist americans think themselves into a corner and their kids end up shooting kids in schools.

I use 1050 Kress 3 years, I have 3 of them. Palywood 6 and 8 mm, 2'nd gear, 3000mm/min. And if something will go wrong you just buy new one.

Back to OPs original question. If you're a smoker: ashtrays my good man. Plenty of cool designs you can do, and always a conversation piece. Aluminum, polished up or painted with heat resistant paint, is great for this.

If you don't smoke, then look up a plan for a Turner's Cube. Is actually a lathe project, but you can just interpolate the bores, and the finished product is just as cool.

Enjoy your new endeavors!

>>353740
That Turner's Cube actually looks really cool. I think I'll model a modified version of that to make, I'll do it in clear acrylic, it'll make a neat display piece.
>>353541
>>353576
I don't believe it is a HAAS.

>>353600
Idk, I've been to the HAAS headquarters in Oxnard CA and hope to apprentice there one day. I don't see anything wrong with haas machines. They are great for lower quantity production facilities. Id really like to hear actual reasons why you dislike haas machines other than heresy bullshit.

There is well made shit coming out of china and there is also terrible shitty crap coming out of china, you get what you pay for.