Over Christmas I'm going to strip my Tiger again,move the switch gear from underneath,do Pz's ariel mod,turn the board over and fit the heatsink to it.

As I'll be doing it over the holidays I won't have access to my workplace to make the heatsink(I work for an engineering firm),so I could do with pre-making it ready for the big strip down.

Would one of you fine gentlemen who've already fitted a heatsink to their Tiger's board be able to fix me up with the dimensions of it please?

We've got plenty of Ally plate at work,around 2-2.5mm thick,so I'll use a piece of that,but I could do with the old width-length-height bit
so that I can get going.

mm's or inches will do.
Ta.

Miggers

Miggers,

I just unscrewed the heat sink from the board took it to work, marked it with a sharpie, then punch marked the sharpie marks. After taht I then took it too the Drill press, drilled out the holes and having the part there that I was replacing made it easy to inspect my work! Beside if I gave you some measurements and you did it wrong you would just be cursing me under your breath all day! Here are a few pics, and ya I dont't like my boards to get hot at all use Silver 5 as a thermal paste!

The blitz [sm=shades_smile.gif]

I just buy the self adhesive sinks available at computer shops. Just stick em on the heng long sink to increase the cooling area.

I got an old PC Graphic/chipset heatsink made from copper that was round. All i did was dremmel it in two and use thermal glue then pasted it to the original heatsink. In my tank i couldn't add a larger deeper heatsink like in the above as the hull restricted the size. I was wondering if the original heatsink could be flipped 180 degrees so it will allow a biger sink to be added ?

Well I scored today at work.

I spied our quality inspector going by with an old pc on a sack truck heading for the skip.

I pounced on it,ripped it to bits and found these gems in it.

The black one with the fan is the CPU heatsink,the fan fits into the hole you see,but if needs be it can soon be sawn up to fit.

It is 125mm long,57mm wide and stands 35mm tall to the top of the fan.

The other two came from the power supply.

They're 75mm long for the biggest and 55mm for the smaller.Both are 55mm wide and cut from 3mm Ally plate.

I reckon a pretty good heatsink can be made from some of these bits.

Miggers