If u can stand the wait send me the part and I will do all the work for u. If
not I believe thet are refering to using an expanding roller mandrel to expand
the tube. If u try anything else u will probably gauld the two metals together!
You can not easily solder copper to aluminum!
May I suggest you pipe tap the end of each hole and then attach tubing to
manifold with 1/4 tube to 1/8 pipe adaptors.
I can drill and tap this for u if you want.
73
>Harold,
> I will check at the auto hobby shop on base, they may have a bead blaster.
> In absence of getting my hands on any sodium hydroxide, is there any
> household item that I may use to acid etch it like maybe some kind of draino
> product designed to free clogged drains? If they don't have a bead blaster,
> I may just use emory cloth by hand on the fins. Definitely won't paint it.
> I am going to use a combination of this aluminum heat sink and also a
> copper heat spreader that I have coming off ebay and liquid cooling, yes this
> is going to be overkill but I don't see how that is going to hurt anything.
> I am emailing some stateside machine shops about getting some "gun
> drilling" done for the liquid cooling holes (1/4inch across a 5 inch width).
> I read that commercially, they expand the 1/4inch tubes inside the gun
> drilled holes but that isn't an option because I don't have a clue how to
> "expand" 1/4inch OD copper brake line inside of a gun drilled 1/4inch hole.
> I was thinking to take a drill bit just a little larger in diameter after I
> get the gun drilling done and push the copper brake tubing in maybe 1/2" and
> then solder the tube in place. I am concerned that once I heat up the heat
> spreader with a torch momentarily to get the solder to bond the brake tubing
> to the gun drilled hole then I will warp it. If I warp it, this will open up
> a can of worms when trying to get a good surface to attach the heatsunk
> devices and the aluminum heat sink as well. Any ideas on how to attach the
> brake line to the heat spreader? The heat spreader is 3/8" thick and the OD
> of the
> hole will be approximately 1/4" I've never worked with copper (C110) like
> this and another person even said the copper can get gummy when drilling it?
Tim O'Rourke
W4YN@ARRL.Net
Low Power Amateur Radio Rocks
Member of Flying Pigs,ARCI,GQRP,RSGB,ARRL Life Member
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