I spent the day machining some heat sinks. It did not go well, but in the end, I have 3 usable heat sinks. The mounting holes in the LED PCBs are undersized. They were spec'd at 0.93" which should have been a clearance hole for a 3-48 machine screw, but they needed to be spec'd to the next size up. I tried to drill and tap a heat sink for a 2-56 machine screw, but the drill bit snapped in the hole. Thinking I got lucky because there was enough bit sticking out of the hole, I extracted a piece. It turned out the bit snapped in multiple places, and the deeper pieces were un-removable. Considering that there was a couple of hours of work in the part by that time, I rotated the PCB and drilled new holes for the 3-48 screws. All told, the dimensions don't match the drawings, but stuff fits and should work. Now I need to wait for more bare PCBs to come in.
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