After many delays, my solid design container has finally arrived!! This is my dream container that I have always wanted. I made absolutely no compromises in making it and it was built with only performance in mind(not to take away from any of the other containers I have used which were all great in their own right). There was flame hardened custom tooling that needed to be made, and re-made, before it could be completed. It may prove difficult to mass produce this particular unit considering the costs that were involved. Along with the custom tooling, the purest copper was used to ensure optimal thermal transfer :/. Some details which are at the heart of the design, are still under NDA and I can't show them just yet. I can say it's a heavy mofo . I took some risks, and I hope they pay off. I am going to run it through the ringer with ln2 mostly, and then some DI on both my dothan and FX setups this week coming up, so results coming soon.
I was very lucky to be present and oversee almost the whole production process, and I got a ton of pictures and a killer avi of it being cut on a $250,000 cnc lathe. I will get the vid loaded up some time later tonight and insert it into this post...it's pretty cool.
Here are some misc pics in the meantime:
Production pics:
Solid block of copper it was cut from:
Finished product:
Here it is next to my mousepot for scale(of course my mousepot was as shiny as my new container when I first got it, but this is how they look after you use the hell out of them :
short clip of top of the bore getting cut on the cnc lathe:
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