We ended up with 9 to 10" of the stuff but with all the wind it was pretty hard to tell for sure. Allegedly there's another band coming through this afternoon with up to 2" more. Joy.
So after getting up with Lily this morning my wife woke up and informed me that her parents would be arriving around 9:30 so that she and I could go out to brunch. So we left Lily with Nana and Papa at 10:00 and headed to the Wentworth by the Sea Inn for a very good meal. Great way to start the month of March.
Yeah, yeah, I meant 2U you bunch of nit pickers.
Bottom line, as Naaman said without some fairly special tools the pins can be problematic to remove. Maybe not a big deal here, I have only seen one failed sigma22 and that was under exceptional circumstances.
The 2" versions all come with pins as well.
One other thing to consider is that moving to larger sinks doesn't do much to help with junction temps and may complicate the casework quite a bit. A 2-1/2" sink eats up a lot of vertical real estate, I'd recommend going with 2" so that once mounted to the boards you can still use a 1/2" standoff and have some clearance in a 3" (1U) chassis.
Crikey, I'll probably be in for a couple sigma22 kits w/ upgraded caps and heat sinks. If I may make a suggestion: see if you can get the heat sinks without the pins in them. I really dislike soldering heat sinks in place on builds like this. It makes them very hard to remove if you have to repair something. Also, removing the pins is a reasonable sized pain in the ass too. I just got done doing it to a dozen of them for a beta22 project I'm working on and it was not fun.
Spending $900 on a used output stage doesn't make any sense to me any way you put it, sorry. The purpose was not to buy a project as far as I could tell.
I'm not sure I can see a way to do this that doesn't strike me as just wasting $$ unless you're willing to shop used. All of the prepackaged systems I've heard have left me seriously wanting. And for HT I'm just not that picky either...
Other than the sweet hookup that Dan almost assuredly just offered I would recommend having a look at Sager Notebooks. Oh and if Dan just hooked you up as I suspect he did you should shop quickly, the last email I got from them had some scary good deals in it.