Strip Heatsinks For Everyone!!

Hey peeps,

Cruisin the Amazonian tonight, and came across these while looking at camping cots for their rails to be harvested as heatsinks. They sell awesome, 6.6' long extrusions already in bulk, for SO CHEAP!!

Hope that this is helpful for someone and if it is,..... PICTURES, PLEASE N' THANK YA!!!

And holy freaking crap, scroll down to the similar items area... I think I just solved literally ALL of our Strip Heatsinking problems......

Those channels are quite thin (12.2mm), i dont think you could even fit in a blux gen3 slim into that. Maybe on the backside.
You should really try to find a local alushop that will cut u-channel for you, if you find whoever sells to professional builders and the like youll see prices dropping far lower.

Rocket Soul said:

Those channels are quite thin (12.2mm), i dont think you could even fit in a blux gen3 slim into that. Maybe on the backside.
You should really try to find a local alushop that will cut u-channel for you, if you find whoever sells to professional builders and the like youll see prices dropping far lower.

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18mm still not even an inch

I understand but theyre still like 1/3 the strips we use that could work. Single rows obviously.

I cant actually see the prices of the links, but i get 20ft of u-channel of similar dimensions for about 7$ locally. But i had to look a lot for it. Im pretty sure you can find something similar, its just that its more likely to be in yellow pages than in google. Still, its good for amazon and any prime user can get shipping for free i guess.

Rocket Soul said:

I cant actually see the prices of the links, but i get 20ft of u-channel of similar dimensions for about 7$ locally. But i had to look a lot for it. Im pretty sure you can find something similar, its just that its more likely to be in yellow pages than in google. Still, its good for amazon and any prime user can get shipping for free i guess.

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What size of u-channel do you get for 7$ a stick?

Comparable to the ones me tioned here, i think i checked for 15mm sides, 1.5 thick. Cuts are extra.

Edit: 20mm base, 15 mm wings, 1.5mm thick is 7€ + 21% sales tax for 6mm. 1€ per cut is a bit much though but great for pro looking cuts without sharp metal pieces. 15 all sides, 1.5 thick is about 4 + tax for 6m/20'.

BuddyColas said:

What size of u-channel do you get for 7$ a stick?

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I don't even know where to find a phone book... Lololol yellowpages website?

not available in germany, change your misleading headline

in europe, i‘d rather order a profile like that from piekarz in poland, 3 euro 39 per meter, with holes for screws on the ends if you need more than just a simple u profile from the hardware store

Airwalker16 said:

I don't even know where to find a phone book... Lololol yellowpages website?

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Check where local contractors get their alu from, they will have it suzzed out.

Rocket Soul said:

Check where local contractors get their alu from, they will have it suzzed out.

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Suzzed?

Airwalker16 said:

Suzzed?

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Sorry, contractors should know where the cheap alu workshop is as they work with this daily.

I'm not trying to cause an argument or to argue with anyone, but I have a question about asking contractor(s).
I don't know of any contractor that will give anyone info on where a potential customer can get products themselves and at contractor pricing...they buy it and add a mark up to make profits...why would they give out the information to loose money ?
Also the links above are not available to ship to Canada...well to my location anyways...shame...lol

Obviously, youd need someone thats willing to collaborate or do the search for a provider yourself. All im saying is look in the less obvious places. Dont search for heatsinks, search for aluminium profiles, dont search on amazon search more locally etc i found my hookup by looking in this way.

You can try google construction material aluminium city name and start thrawling thru that.

Those are crap.

You can get good ones that can do 15w per ft and have PMMA covers.

They are called "SOLIS" look for lighting companies that do the full 3m legnths and you can get then for £3 per heatsink including the cover and caps. just make sure you get the PMMA cover as the PC ones are really bad.

15w per ft is the max really.