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Clovenedhoof

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  1. Can I please be your technical adviser/machinist? In all seriousness, you guys are doing great, and I love these videos. I am a jeweler by trade and run a small job machine shop that makes hard to make parts from exotic materials. I did not read all the above comments, I'm sorry if anyone brought these up already, but I wanted to give a couple tips that might help you guys a lot! 1. Consider aluminum for the water block instead of copper. It's MUCH easier to machine, it's not as conductive as copper, but it should probably be enough for your uses. Maybe even just for prototyping. 2. Make sure you are using an easy to machine copper. You are getting weird chips, it's hard to tell on a video, but you might do better with a copper with a higher amount of Tellurium like C14500 Tellurium Copper 3. Consider a silver base plate soldered to a copper mid-plate. Silver is more conductive than copper. And it's easier to machine if you are machining through the metal, than trying to machine a pocket. plus you can water jet cut it, or laser cut it. (If you need someone to do the soldering, I will gladly do that) 4. When tapping, especially a larger thread like you guys are doing, consider using a drill press to hold your tap. You want to chuck a live center in the drill press, then mount the piece you want to tap in a vice. Then use the drill press to apply stead pressure and hold it straight, while turning the tap with the tap handle. Let me know if I can help you guys. -Chris
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