Disposable material

I can’t remember the last time I had a project that I started with all the recommended parts. Perhaps it’s that money is an issue, perhaps it is the fact that alot of times there is material that can be recycled and repurposed.

I think it’s a gift. Usually, it’s how every episode of hoarders begins. I don’t think many other people see stuff like I do.

For example, I saw this in the trash and it made me sad.

I have no use for corregated cardboard, but just look at it. Sitting all alone in the trash. Someone invented this, someone spent hours perfecting the process , and someone’s job is to feed material into a machine that spits this out probably all day long. Someone went home and told the wife and kids, sitting around the table, I’ve made a remarkable discovery with the cardboard today.

Its pretty strong too, I’m not a lightweight individual.

I told you that story to tell you this one. I need a heat sink to run LED lights. You mount your “bulb” to it and the byproduct of the light is heat. Most people just buy a prefabricated extruded aluminum shape and either blow air over it or passively let heat escape. Heat is the only real way to destroy these lights. I’m thinking about mounting my LEDs to aluminum cookware and then sealing the lid to the base and adding a few fittings and water cooling the entire unit back to a old radiator with a small electric pump.

Will it look as slick as this?

Probably not even close, but your talking to a guy who plans to grow in chic fillet pickle buckets. Will it perform? I think it will and maybe better than that slick extrusion.

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