I have the awesomest neighbor . . !!!

a few of you, perhaps . . . remember my post detailing my desire to employ an unused core i7 heatsink as a heatsink . . .



And that I "had access" to a lathe . . .



I knew my neighbor had a lathe and I asked if he would "just drill a 12 mm hole in it" . . . my heatsink . . .

I explained I wanted to make a high power laser to pop corn and blowout Prius tires from 20 feet and instantly we understood eachother.

"just bang it in the lathe and drill the hole." I said . . .

Uhm . . . no . . . he explained . . . it's light, it needs to be true, straight . . .

Therefore the housing must be true and straight . . .

Uhm well . . . . Brilliant neighbor had it sorted well before I told him I was a terrific person.

So he had to find the middle of some thing that wasn't really round . . .

He fastened the sink with clamps on the milling machine bed with some plywood to help stabilize the part . . .



So let's poke around a bit, get some X-Y . . .



Some Z . . . and a touch more XY . . . wow . . .



ABCDEFGHIJKLMNoP . . .



mmmkay . .. this is the middle of this universe . . .



Well now can we drill???





Yes but now we bore . . . . . .



I know a bit about what went on but this guy can divide in his head . . . metric/standard . . .

My i7 sink sunk *perfectly* with an module . . .



via some *brilliant* guy

Kudos! We'll all be waiting for pics of the destruction from your over-driven 445nm. Maybe I could point my 445 at yours with this heat sink. We could see who's destructs first. ;-)

Mmmmm, I love the smell of machine oil in an over the top machine shop!

cool, really appreciate you posting the photos of the wizard at work
yes finding the maximum diameter and using several centering lines works quite fine also as does using the readout of the milling machine, techshop has a model similar to that one. You definitely have a cool neighbor.

hmm .. you really think you can score a prius tire??? .. my interest is in QA of various Security NV camera sensors I work with on a professional level, I want to deliberately damage them while making forensic studies of the damage types and magnitudes and what distances can the damage can be done from so that protective caps can be designed that will protect these somewhat expensive cameras in the field from these class of attacks.

Please let this thread die . . . thankyou . . . please see my other neighbor post for progress . . .




I am familiar with Techshop, I live not too far from there and my buddy knows one of the owners . . .

gwenhastings said:

cool, really appreciate you posting the photos of the wizard at work
yes finding the maximum diameter and using several centering lines works quite fine also as does using the readout of the milling machine, techshop has a model similar to that one. You definitely have a cool neighbor.

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haha, your neighbor just happens to have a lathe.

i was expecting a mini lathe in some over crowded garage, not this kind of machinery.

lol. no . . . bad ass . . . finally got it running tonight . . .

all done on the milling machine . . . see pics below . . .