Painting a PA120.3 rad, k to do?

[Marci]

Same applies to the exact sizing info, unless you know it's there it's hard to come across.

On each product's page at thermochill.com, in the Specs, where it says "DIM:" for Dimensions... *shrug*

While we're on the topic, the paint finish is pretty fragile. Black Ice, for their issues, do a good paint job and it stands a bit of bumping when you're trying to get a heavy radiator into an awkward position. The Thermochills don't.

Equals a price rise.

The neoprene foam seals are also hard work, as a fan can easily squash them 'the wrong way' and push them inwards so they fan fouls on them and either sticks or makes a noise, which can result in repeated fan fittings. A minor quibble, but never had the same issue with silicone rubber gaskets.

Equals a price rise. If gasket is catching on fan, you've overtightened the screws, or not stretched the gasket across full width of the rad as you've fitted it.

The self-tapper screws provided to fit fans etc, are scary. I'm always afraid that over-tightening could pop one through the rad. Not sure how you'd resolve that, but a little piece of plate bent and soldered in a _|-|_ shape under each screw hole might save a few unhappy people who didn't read the warnings.

Equals a price rise.

What I suspect a lot of people dream of from their Thermochill is for it to be smaller, not bigger - even if some performance was lost. e.g. a Mini-A120.2 that has the same fan spacing as BI, maybe 10 to 5mm thinner, and yes, slightly worse performance... but still better than a BI240GTX or whatever would be the same size.

Buy an MCR rad instead of the BI then... if we make it thinner it'll perform exactly the same as an MCR but still cost more. Why bother, other than for the sake of owning a specific brand name? We don't care about what brand is what, just what performs the best. We don't cater to the masses. We produce whatever offers the best performance. It's down to the endusers how they accomodate that product in their system. Everything is as it is out of necessity to achieve that performance whilst keeping the price as "reasonable" as we possibly can. The size is as it is due to performance. Why compete with other brands by shrinking into the same format directly when we KNOW that we'll always be double the price thanks to exchange rates? A pointless exercise in wasting money making stock that won't sell I'm afraid.

We are in the process of looking into all the issues brought up... but none of the fixes for these issues will appear quickly. We're backed up trying to keep up with demand - we don't have time to break off to make changes, nor do we have time to take on any more business developing additional lines to the current rads. Any "new" designs released would mean the discontinuance of an existing line, or we can't keep on top of production to meet demand... already an issue as it is.

ALL the trade resellers are badgering for pricedrops to fall inline with competition, not pricehikes. If prices go up, expect availability to become an issue as the resellers drop them due to lack of confidence in end-users justifying the price and completing the sale.

Until we can meet current demand, we will be doing ZERO development work or changes... as at the moment we're at least a month behind on shipping schedules for orders, and no matter what we do, demand grows every month so we cannot keep on top of it... simple as that. We don't make enough profit to expand production further because we can't put the price up due to our products being expensive enough as it is in the international market.

I'm afraid it's a case of yer all gonna have to live with it as it is for the foreseeable future. Sorry.