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Old 12-13-2011, 05:11 AM
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There is no way that these will warp, as soft as aluminum is it will actually take a little more heat to warp . Total watts of the LED would be 408w @ 100% which I doubt I will even get close to that.

I am looking for a product I heard about that is similar to Silver Solder. It a matter of heating it up & pouring it in to fill any gaps.
If there is any visible gaps or you want to run stringers.... Just heat up a cone and give her a good few Whaps with the hammer
She will fit right in the gaps and if you have the gas up you will be mint....
Although im sure your more than fine now seeing the shawdy heatsinks i have seen on car amps/ballasts running tripple or more watts/amps the fins are half useless anyways and your way overkill .
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Old 12-13-2011, 05:21 AM
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Not going to do any more welding on them except to connect the fins to the end caps. To much weld and it will warp for sure. There is only 3/8" between fins so the only way to do any more weld in there is with some aluminum stick rods & they are very messy. The Loctite stuff is the answer to bold it all together.
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