Should rads for PC cooling come with drainage or a fill plug?

[Eastcoasthandle]

I have been wondering this for sometime now. Car rads have this feature and they are under more pressure then what we use for the pc...why are drainage plugs and fill plugs not used in the rads we buy for our pc cooling solutions?

Fill plug can be a simple screw on pressure cap or screw
Drain plug can be a simple plastic screw on nob...

What's the big deal here :stick:

[creidiki]

PAs have it. All other rads suck =p

[Eastcoasthandle]

PAs have it. All other rads suck =p
Thats really not where I am going with this. I was hoping to get some details as to what the problem might be...

[creidiki]

because the manufcturers are lazy/most rads are made in aisia. no other reason.

[septim]

drainage or fill plug in the rad seems unnecesary, depending on location
you don't expect to drain it while its on top of your case.

but of course you could self mod it to have said holes.

[voigts]

A drill, thread tap, bolt and o-ring was all it took to add one to my rad. It makes bleeding a lot easier. Car rads are pretty much mounted the same way on every car. In pcs, they are mounted all over the place in every way imagineable. That might be one reason that most don't have drain plugs.

[Marci]

Indeed... can't guarantee the mounting position to allow one to choose the best position in which to stick it on the rad... and guaranteed, if we stick in one place we'll get a barrage of e-mails asking for it in the other place etc etc.

S'mainly down to practicality and accessibility... the only suitable spot would be in the opposing end to the barbs... where our bleed valve currently is, but much larger... however, this protrusion into the end-tank would disturb flow and affect the performance of the radiator. Better to keep that endtank as unobstructed as possible...

If the thread stood out from the end-tank instead of being sunk in, the rad's would be even more difficult to mount conveniently...

[InTheFlow]

A drill, thread tap, bolt and o-ring was all it took to add one to my rad. It makes bleeding a lot easier.

How do you use it to bleed the system if you have a T-Line?

I figured that if I tried messin with the bleed valve while my t-line was open, I'd have a heck of a mess on my hands since the rad is at the bottom of my loop in the opty case.

[voigts]

If your rad is at the bottom of your loop, you would have no need for a bleed valve anyway. It is if the rad is at the top of the loop, i.e. top mounted, that bleeding can become difficult.

[sykocus]

I have been wondering this for sometime now. Car rads have this feature and they are under more pressure then what we use for the pc.
I don't think it has anything to do with pressure. It has to do with effort to benefit factor. Removing a PC radiator is minor compared to having to remove a radiator from a car. If you put a drain pea:banana::banana::banana::banana: on a PC radiator, thats extra clearance you have to worry about. Where's it going to drain into, with a car radiator it just dumps onto the ground down the road in a bucket placed under the car.

[lowfat]

I think they should definately have them. I find it a pain in the ass to bleed triple rads.