Has anyone here messed around with heatpipes? I'm wondering if they stand being desoldered from existing fittings, bent into new shapes, etc. I'm building a 1.2 GHz MiniITX mainboard into an old Peavey SX sampler case (1U rack type) after the original innards died. The new back panel is 3mm aluminium, so it would be ideal if I could pipe CPU heat to that to get silent cooling, and I bet someone here might have tried this sort of thing already. I don't even know if most of them are soldered in place, they might be connected some other way, but as far as I know a heat pipe will stand soldering temperatures.