Acrylic/Copper CNC machinist

[leperconzero]

Well first off, I love some of the projects in this forum! I've been looking around for the last few hours... and I must say that some of the stuff I've seen on the forum is awe inspiring! From miniature jet engines to running mini V8... crazy!

I ran across this forum looking for a machinist... And what better place to find one then a Enthusiast CNC site!

My name is Sean Gower, I am a PC enthusiast! I build high power, high performance computers. I'm a very skilled Overclocker (for people who don't know, it's pushing computer hardware past it's rated limit within reason) and I have gotten some of my CPU's past the 100% overclock barrier. Getting the beast with the least is what I'm all about! I'm starting a online computer store and I have not come up with a name or anything yet, just a basic direction. High end water cooling products for PC's, and custom made blocks for (hopefully) less then a retail.

I'm very efficient in 3dsmax, I can model the objects and if you can do the CNC magic with them, that'd be all the better!

But I need to start off somewhere! So if I can find a quote on how much each block would cost I can take pre-orders and use that to pay for the initial blocks. So if you can do some sample work with scraps or a lesser metal that would be spectacular! If I can buy a single unit to stress test and see how well it functions I can advertise it a little more and get a few more orders! I'm hoping to get at least 20-30 orders! I'm apart of another forum with well over 100k members and they all have too much money and too little computer hardware!

I would also be interested in a co-ownership with a machinist. I handle all the website/advertising/block design/testing/handle payments using a joint paypal account/research and the customer support. machinist will machine and buy materials and ship items to me for assembly and testing

machinist would get 60% of profit earned, more complicated blocks the more we can charge. People pay good money for good blocks! A Graphics card waterblock can run anywhere from $120 to $300!


That's almost a $200 block.. it's a simple (to me, might not be) design. Water goes in, goes over a fin pattern of some sort and goes out.

Here is a rough draft of one I was messing with, this is only around 20min of work in 3dsmax07, I'm upgrading to 3dsmax 2009 as I type this. As soon as it's done I'll finish the design and post it.



It's made up of three layers
The top acrylic part, I'm guessing it's around 120mm x 80mm as I have not yet measured the exact dimensions yet. I would like to use a acrylic thicker then 8mm as it will have to be secured with some force. Also has two 1/2 holes, or 3/8 depending on the application

The metal part is around 60mm X 60mm, it's two layers

The bottom layer is 15mm deep, with the cut going down 13mm into a pattern that has yet to be decided. I was thinking something along the lines of this, If it's a difficult thing to do, let me know and I could simplify it by using straight lines (from some of the stuff I have seen, it should be a cakewalk!)



The second layer would be 60 x 60 again, only this time 10mm thick with only the top circulation layer machined. As you can see it's a pentagram. The whole idea of that was to provide even flow to all sides of the block. The feed is going to pressurize the top and send the water down all the points and eventually going through the bottom half into the location of the second barb where it exits back into the cooling loop

You can email me at my user name plus @msn.com at the end, or PM me here if the site allows new users to get/send PM's
If you have Windows Live Messenger you can add me at paradox@renegade-help.com (don't email, that domain is dead and so is the email account. It's just my sign in name for WLM)

The payment would be using paypal, also

And sorry if this is the wrong forum, seemed like the best place as I need help and willing to pay

Hoping to hear from you!
-Sean