Just an update for everyone. (long-winded post)
I am back in town now. I have to go back to work tommorow, yuk!
I have been playing with the new design a little here at my home-bench. It may not be as easy as I thought when last I posted, the egg-nog wore-off , lol. The groove is for the O-ring is angled a little which makes it harder to gain purchase on the rubber, as opposed to a sharp-edge. I still think it will work out, but I need to make some proto-types at the shop tommorow night after work, I will post the results as soon as I have something.
I have not heard anything from Tom about the replacments, I will be focusing on a solution for the existing "new-design" heatsinks. I hope Tom's health is better, best wishes to you man!
Disclaimer: The following is an update about Dark Horse Custom and personal-crap about me in general, sorry.
As many of you already know, my brother and I have spent the last-year trying to get a machine/Fab shop of our own off the ground, (G2-Industries Inc.), while still working full-time. It has been a rough-year to say the least, thanks to everyone for your support. We have decided to disolve G2 and shut it down as a profesional-project. This hopefully will not affect my "production heatsinks" as I have them made by CNC in another shop, but short-run and custom-stuff will be on hold soon, at least for a while. I plan to get everything set-up in my garage again, (the anodizing is already there), I am just not sure when. I will make sure to get these finished for everyone prior to tearing down the lathe and mill. These may the last DH-custom heatsinks for a while. The good new about this is that I can soon focus back on the laser-related stuff, which I love. Good times ahead!
In addition to the machine-shop issue I am dealing with above, my Mother is very sick and I will be spending as much time with her as I can, probably every second-weekend. I am not trying to share all of my woes with you guys and bring you down, but I thought it may be best to let you know where I am. In December I lost 2 family members, I hope 2010 is better! Thanks to everyone for your support and being so patient.
Barry