How many of you have been waiting for a water cooling option for your E3Dv6? Well here you go, from a respected member of the community.
Yes, I have one. Just need a few other parts to show up and I’ll be putting it to work.
Originally shared by René Jurack
There you have it! The water cooling is available now: http://well-engineered.net/index.php/en/shop/water-cooled-heatsink
Worth the hassle?
It can’t be easier. You can keep your existing setup and just switch out the heatsink… Then start enjoying the silence 
If only, you need a pump, radiator fan for radiator lengths of tubing, and a very good cable management system
Sure, you need the rest of the water cooling setup. But that is very easy to do. Water cooling for computers is so advanced today. And you can use nearly every part of this already available eco-system. Look at the picture, that is all you need:
Are there any performance improvements? Other than noise reduction?
I mean, E3D doesn’t jam if you’re cooling in open room temp air so I’m not sure what more you expect. This is useful if you’re going to run a heated chamber, where air cooling the heatsink won’t work.
O man… I’m tempted…
Seems really nice! Where did you buy the other parts (pump, radiator, …) and how much will it cost in total. A rough estimation would help to decide if i buy one. I’m also from germany so german vendors will work for me.
How reliable is it? I’m just thinking that water cooling for computers are not really designed for the kind of strain/movement a 3d printer has.
@Kai11 you can do the rest of the setup for less than 50€ if you buy from china like aliexpress, ebay or something like that.
@Oystein_Krog I have some very different watercoolings running in my printers over the last ~5months with zero issues. The most fragile thing in my experience is the thermistor wiring 
The flexible tubes are fine with that little movement. Think of it like a bowden-tube, it is nearly the same…
@Rene_Jurack Ok, that is reassuring:)
Does anyone have a link to a watercooling kit that has the other parts one would need?
I’m considering upgrading my IDEX machine, but I’m guessing that the output of 2X E3D V6 (less than 2*40W) does not really need a huge radiator, since an overclocked CPU is probably somewhere around 80W as well?
I do cool 3x V6 and 6x TMC2100 with a single 80mm Radiator. But If you do a bigger one, you can slow down the fan a lot for more silence.
And for the pump/reservoir I recommend this, but you can go with any other setup, cheap or not, too.
and if you are only looking for most bang for buck and therefore China is no problem for you, I think you can do the complete setup for less than 50$/€
By silent, do you mean while printer sitting idle. Cause while the little fan is a bit buzzy, while printer running it is not the most noisy part. I would think slapping a larger fan might be a more simpler solution. Still a cool idea. Cheers.
Well if you’re actually gonna do this, frozencpu(.)com was a good source of water cooling parts back when I used to do that.
My E8600 did 5ghz, 24/7 it ran at 4.5ghz, triple coolant loops, CPU on 1/2"tubing, dual GPU on 3/8", and I had the RAM on a separate aluminum parts based loop… which reminds me of something.
this hotend, and the associated parts in the cooling loop, you have accounted for galvanic corrosion?
You cannot have copper and aluminum in the same fluid loop, at all. Some other metals apply as well, basicly if you mix certain metals in water they start trading electrons and break down. But you covered that right?
edit: wtf google is shoving that link ad into the text not me. tried to delete ad so it is just text.
2nd edit: this is the fucking obnoxious ad link text added to my post,
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3rd edit: removed cursing, but oh my god is that disturbing that Google adds actual text to the body of my message that could appear to be my own words. !#!#!!! seriously not OK, pretty close to the fascism others were talking about that I thought was overreacting, then google started typing whole sentences for me… yikes!
@Dan_Collins uhm… a printer can easily be dead silent: https://plus.google.com/+ReneJurack/posts/2dwhpwdp8Qa
it appears you are using a thermaltake single fan radiator which is aluminum and will work with an aluminum waterblock. Be sure to warn users to not mix copper radiators and fittings with this! seriously it will wreck stuff as the metals react to each other!
