Something grey is in my tubes? [Big Image warning]

[oc_junkY]

Hi there,
i have installed my liquid cooling 7-8 months ago.
today i installed a new harddrive into my case, and i saw such grey frazzles in my tubes. i really don't know what this could be.
I have used following liquid:

Feser One Cooling Fluid (http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/feonef1coflu3.html)

I have made a foto but it's not very sharp:

http://www.abload.de/thumb/foto173fa6.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=foto173fa6.jpg)

Here is annother one:
http://www.abload.de/thumb/foto175xgz.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=foto175xgz.jpg)

It is my first liquid cooling system so please help a beginner figuring out what's in his tubes ;-)

Thank you!

greets
junkY

[SparkyJJO]

Try taking the picture from farther away to let the camera focus, or see if your camera has a macro mode.

[SparkyJJO]

Did you flush out the radiator with hot water before installing it?

[oc_junkY]

As i did it with a friend of mine i don't know if he flushed it out with hot or cold water.
What if he used cold water?
Is this dangerous?

[SparkyJJO]

Well cold water just doesn't clean out the radiator as well (think of it like washing dishes, cold water doesn't do near as well).

Another thing it might be is algae. You using distilled water and some sort of biocide?

It isn't necessarily dangerous, but could be hurting performance since it is probably in your blocks as well. Also looks nasty. If it were me I'd drain the loop and scrub out the blocks, flush the radiator really well, and replace the tubing.

[003]

It might very well be the plasticizer being leeched from the tubing.

[[XC] DragonOrta]

It might be from the Feser One. I used some of the Feser One Black with Distilled water, about a 20/80 mix, and after a while there were what looked like grayish flakes swirling in my t-line.

[oc_junkY]

DragonOrta;2620644']It might be from the Feser One. I used some of the Feser One Black with Distilled water, about a 20/80 mix, and after a while there were what looked like grayish flakes swirling in my t-line.

This is quite what the things in my tubes look like.
What did you do?

I have annother bottle of this liquid but used it 100/0 ;-)
It was described as a already mixed liquid to fill in in the shop i bought it!

[[XC] DragonOrta]

I switched from the distilled and feser one mix back to straight distilled.

[Baleful]

It might very well be the plasticizer being leeched from the tubing.

That's exactly what it is. I had the same thing happen to me, it's actually quite common. Just do this:

Break your loop down.
Boil 1 gallon of Distilled water.
Let the water stop boiling, then with tongs, run your tubing through the hot distilled water.
Then take a shot gun cleaning kit, and run the rod+linen through the tubes to scrub the stuff out.
Then make 1 more run through the distilled water.

May seem a little lengthy but it dosn't take long, and after you do it, the tubes stay cleaner alot longer.

[oc_junkY]

DragonOrta;2622436']I switched from the distilled and feser one mix back to straight distilled.

Aren't you afraid of algae?




Then take a shot gun cleaning kit, and run the rod+linen through the tubes to scrub the stuff out.


Thank you Bareful for your explanation, but since my native language is german and/or i have not enough knowledge about liquid cooling i don't know what you want to tell me with this sentence.
I don't know what a shot gun cleaning kit is, n'either rod+linen.

Would you explain the hole progress with more details?
And if i need to buy something (the cleaning kit?) would you post a link or a product name?
Thank you!

Greets
junkY

[FrogBite]

Für waffen gibt es reinigunskits mit denen kannst du die schläuche reinigen oder du steckst einen langen, dünnen gegenstand mit einem tuch in die schläuche um den dreck weg zu kriegen.

Du solltest umbedingt die blocks öffnen und von drinnen säubern und versuchs mit Innovatek IP als schutz.

[Baleful]

Sorry if I wasn't very clear on some parts.

The cleaning kit I refered to can be found here http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/87101-4465-855.html

http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_34289?cm_mmc=froogle-_-400-4-13-_--1-_-38-861-460-02&hvarAID=froogle&mr:trackingCode=0BE25EE0-50A7-DC11-BE2A-001422107090&mr:referralID=NA

The rod+linen is included in the kit. Linen = Cloth
The rod is the rod is the long metal peices you see from the picture in the link.

All the other stuff that is included in the kit can be discarded. All you need are the metal rods, and the cloth (linen).