Blue Horizon by riekmaharg2

Coolant pump

In order to improve on the nasty looking block of black plastic that is the DCC Laing pump, I decided to make my own coolant pump housing which hides the pump and has a reservoir all in one unit. After some designing I decided to make the pump as follows. The pump first started out as large block of aluminium. I then put it into the lathe, and trimmed down the sides, hollowing out the middle for the pump to sit into:


I then had to hand saw the end section off as I didn’t have a lathe parting tool large enough. Once I separated the two sections, I then hollowed out some of the opposite side:


The milling machine was then used to create a channel around the inside edge of the hollowed out section. I then made the top piece in the exact same manner I made the last:



The pump then finally came together with a piece of clear acrylic tubing in the middle, and some bolts hidden underneath: