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Orange Pi PC H3 CPU heatsink
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Each heatsink is roughly 50g finished weight and has over 2200 square
millimetres of surface area to dissipate heat over.

See the image for the results.

Method
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This design was realised with a lathe, mill and bandsaw

The operations were:

- 150mm length of 25mm round bar copper stock in three jaw chuck on lathe

- end face and make hole for lathe centre.

- rod turned round and turned down to 20mm for 20mm of length to fit
20mm collet on mills rotary table chuck

- on mill rod mounted between rotary table chuck and a centre.

- centre slitting saw height at the centre of the copper rod

- using a 1mm slitting saw cut 4mm deep grooves (ideally 6mm but in
my case the centre and rotary table would foul cuts deeper than 4mm)

- rotate table 40 degrees and repeat until all nine slots cut.

- use bandsaw to slice off 13mm lengths, parting soft material like
copper on a lathe really does not work (why yes i do need to buy a
new insert for my parting tool) take it slow and let it cool down
between cuts or it becomes very difficult to handle and may jam.

- put the sections back in the lathe and face both sides. I also
bevelled the bottom edges which removes some sharp edges.

- clean thoroughly and ensure no copper swarf remains to get on your
delicate electronics.

- use some thermal tape and attach to CPU
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