Brilliant job, but why threads are so square? All convoys except of mid-C8 have standart metric 60 degrees threads.
Thanks. The Convoy’s do have 60 degree triangular threads, but they are not a standard profile; they are truncated, which is to say the tips are cut off. I measured the pitch, pitch diameter, and the OD of the stock heatsink’s thread and reproduced it, after which point I increased the pitch diameter until the slop went away. Because I did not also increase the outside diameter of the heatsink, the result of increasing just the pitch diameter is a wider crest.
There really is a lot of play in the stock threads, and I got rid of it. Now I need to see if they will be too tight for anyone. This is why I am doing a small batch at first.
Not sure that this is best solution
You’ll just have to trust that I know how to make threads, and that I made the only adjustment possible in order to remove most of the slop, which is increasing the pitch diameter.
On my S2+’s (3 of them) these heatsinks install smoothly. They do not bind up or anything.
Ok, what is OD of this pills?
.855” ( 21.72mm )
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I`ll take some from the next run.
Are you making a triple pill?
No plans for triples at the moment. I figure the guys with manual lathes can handle that. I’ll focus on the tricky stuff. Feel free to propose something though and I’ll consider it.
Another note regarding the heatsink threads and how they fit: there was quite a bit of dirt and crap in the threads of the heads of my S2+’s…. I cleaned them all out with a small brush before determining fitment.
Maybe you can make SS bezels for good price?
Many people would like to have them but they are out of our abilities.
Hmm, that might be fun. I do intend to make them for Mags at least. If made from 416SS they can be hardened to better than 36 rockwell C. I would need to get a vibratory polishing bowl and some polishing media to give them a proper finish. Wouldn’t want to see any tooling marks on a bezel.
Put me down for one, please!
How much is the shipping to germany!?
First of all, they look very nicely made! I would really like to see also a tripple version. A shame the International shipping is so high in your country. 
But with the recent steady development of the driver firmware (great work there), I have no good feeling about permanently solder a driver to the pill.
Why not use the retaining ring approach of the original pill? It should be even possible to reuse the threaded retaining ring of the original brass pill.
Maybe a internal snap ring could be used to retain the driver, I have done this on my X6 copper pressed in pill, retaining a 26mm Mtn FETDD driver. It was easier cutting a internal ring groove, then making a threaded retaining ring and threading the pill? Just a thought?
Could the shelf of the pill perhaps be thicker. I think since a lot of us will be using FET drivers, I don’t think the extra space for the driver is necessary. It would be nice to have even more copper in the pill.
BTW, these are absolutely gorgeous!
I can share its drawing with you if this would make evaluating faster.
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Mike
You can put me down for an S2+ also.
This pill looks beautifully done, but I already ordered some with spacer from kiriba.
Do you have any plans on making a heatsink/spacer for the Cu X5?
> D-mag
Does it make a difference which version? Some have “D” as the first character in the serial number; others don’t, sizes differ a bit internally