I designed a waterblock

[AndrewZorn]

Revised base, realistic construction (I hope) and everything meticulously threaded:








I can reduce the cut widths if possible. These are .5mm cuts .5mm from each other. Is this too fine?
Still having trouble with this stuff:

- What is the hexagonal wrench size on a standard G1/4" fitting? What is considered to be a 'wide' fitting when concerning the size of the 'base' (I have to find a minimum about how far to keep these from the edges of the inlet/outlet housing, and I don't want to increase the size of the block itself, but might have to!). As in, I have the thread sizes and all, but the outermost circular part of the fitting that you wrench down on is starting to worry me, like you might have to take the fittings out to remove the hold-down plate.
- What is reasonable as far as cross-cuts through the baseplate? As in, what's the smallest cut that can be done reasonably, and what is the smallest distance between these cuts that can be accomplished? By taking in both of these, I can find out just how small I can make my cross-cut 'pins'.
- Base thickness... the Fuzion V1 is ~1.5mm thick, and the V2 is even thinner. I thought 1.5mm should be possible. Can I accomplish this?
- With a thin base like that, is it reasonable to thread the BASE and have the bolts go top-down like I do, or will the bolts not have enough 'teeth' and thickness to be able to hold the whole thing together well? I don't know how there are chipset and full-coverage blocks that are Xmm thick and have bolts that are threaded into the base to hold it all together.

I also still REALLY want to get rendered/realistic images to work how I want them to. This is the best I can show off right now!

Those are not some fake threads either... I actually sketched one thread 'tooth' to spec and revolved it around a helix which is also to spec. It's the real thing!
EDIT except that right now those are 17mm screws. I'm trying to find a medium between real screws and overall heights of the block. Sure I can always use spacers or cut down real screws or simply do it different, but since I'm not totally sure that this is final, I won't do that yet.