E3D V6 Watercooling without groovemount

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A water cooled heatsink for E3D hotend. After reading a lot of informations there: https://well-engineered.net/index.php/en/86-community-water-cooling https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:247599 http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?336,765316 http://www.instructables.com/id/Water-Cool-Your-3D-Printer-Nozzle-the-Cheap-and-Ea/ https://forum.e3d-online.com/threads/e3d-water-cooled-mod.53/ I remixed all these good ideas to create my own watercooling block. The prototype was made without a lathe. What you need: - A E3DV6 heatsink (or a clone…). - Some cold solder joint. - A B20 jacket ( 5 euros on Ebay…). - A M7 bolt (kinda hard to find… In france, you’ll find some in old hinges. - A 2,5 drill bit and a M3 taper. - A lathe (or a cheap drill that you can destroy) - A file - Some sand paper - A saw - Some knowledge about lathing. The operations are easy: - Cut the head of the bolt - Cut the groovemount (if you want to use my kind of mount) PHASE1 - Screw the bolt in the heatsink - Attach the bolt in the drill chuck - Attach the drill to your work bench - Turn the part like in a lathe (This is the hardest part. Be careful !) PHASE 2 - Check the external diameter of the part (It should have a 20 mm diameter) - When the part is done, fill the 20mm fins with some cold solder joint (I mean really fill it!, you should have too much material but it’s nice - Put the part back in the drill and turn it back to 20 mm PHASE 3 - Drill the heatsink with the drill jig PHASE 4 - Wash the part with demineralized water - Put on the B20 jacket , fill it with with water and let it sit one night (to check the sealing)