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Originally Posted by booman  As long as the pipes are not punctured it should be fine to file em down a bit. Risky though because if you do puncture them, there is liquid inside that makes the copper piping so effective. Without the liquid you won't have any cooling. |
I think though that if you did need to shorten the pipes you could cut them down and then squeeze the ends closed with some pliers and solder the tube shut. It looks to be like thats how they close the ends on most of the heat pipes i have seen. I would use high temp solder though. You wouldn't want to melt it with the heat of the CPU.