Looking awesome! I did the acrylic like you were talking about on a smaller machine I built and it didn't really help, in fact it just gave the saw dust another place to collect and just made it more difficult to keep the rails clean. The new machine I'm building some sort of accordion type covers or something similar
Thanks for the feedback! You make a great point, dust basically gets wherever air can get so I can see how the problem would persist. I like the idea of accordion type covers, I've seen a lot of industrial machines use them. I'll do some research on that, cheers!
Great video. Depending very much on your use case, one type of water pump that *might* be worth looking at would be say the D5 pumps used in water cooling systems for PCs. That's because they're pretty much all PWM wired, which means you can control the flow really easily. One critical word of warning, however... the "impeller" (for want of a better word) of a D5 sits in a casing that uses the coolant fluid as a lubricant and which therefore won't like particulate contamination. So if your head is just being cooled by a recirculating water jacket, a D5 [or maybe a DDC] pump might be a good 12v solution. But don't use if you expect your coolant to pick up particulate contamination. Main reason for thinking of a coolant pump for a PC is that D5 pumps like that are designed to run for 10s of thousands of hours, so you shouldn't have any reliability or longevity issues. And the flow rates are pretty good.
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Mate, this is turning into a beast. Legend.
Well done Gareth, this is fantastic. You are going to be UT famous at the end of this series, its so professional and well delivered 👍 Nice work.
Looking awesome! I did the acrylic like you were talking about on a smaller machine I built and it didn't really help, in fact it just gave the saw dust another place to collect and just made it more difficult to keep the rails clean. The new machine I'm building some sort of accordion type covers or something similar
Thanks for the feedback! You make a great point, dust basically gets wherever air can get so I can see how the problem would persist. I like the idea of accordion type covers, I've seen a lot of industrial machines use them. I'll do some research on that, cheers!
Great video. Depending very much on your use case, one type of water pump that *might* be worth looking at would be say the D5 pumps used in water cooling systems for PCs. That's because they're pretty much all PWM wired, which means you can control the flow really easily. One critical word of warning, however... the "impeller" (for want of a better word) of a D5 sits in a casing that uses the coolant fluid as a lubricant and which therefore won't like particulate contamination.
So if your head is just being cooled by a recirculating water jacket, a D5 [or maybe a DDC] pump might be a good 12v solution. But don't use if you expect your coolant to pick up particulate contamination.
Main reason for thinking of a coolant pump for a PC is that D5 pumps like that are designed to run for 10s of thousands of hours, so you shouldn't have any reliability or longevity issues. And the flow rates are pretty good.
Thank you for the feedback and suggestions! I will certainly take that idea into consideration
Looking good 💥