Poultry Shears 1, Radiator 0

[santiagodraco]

Lesson to the wise, don't cut tubing next to the radiator with poultry shears (or any other shears for that matter), not unless you value your radiator :rofl:

Good thing I have my old Reserator 2 sitting doing nothing, so I'm back up and running, well, with about 8-10c higher temps but still not too bad =p.

[Agent11]

Um, what??

[santiagodraco]

I poked a minute hole in my radiator tonight when I was adding an in line temp sensor :)

[Agent11]

A terminal poke?

[santiagodraco]

Yeah I think so. I'll have to order one Monday. Aside from being out 50 bucks, this might be a blessing in disguise as I did want to paint the shroud kit black. Now I have my chance heh.

[santiagodraco]

The tube. I pressure tested it to be sure, and yep, it's definitely holed.

[ColonelCain]

just clean the paint/coating off from around where the puncture is and solder it using a hot iron and flux. if it's small. not really that hard to fix. give it a shot, what do you have to lose,

gl,

andyc

I would defiantly try it. It just may keep $50 in your pocket. :yepp:
And as mcoffey said, you really don't have anything to lose, but everything to gain. :up:

[virtualrain]

I recently poked a hole in one of my rads and even my 100W soldering iron could not heat up the rad enough for the solder to stick. My blow torch did the job nicely though! :D

At any rate, a punctured rad can be fixed fairly easily with the right tools.

[Jedda]

Your neighbourhood radiator repair place will solder it if you feel hesitant. Just make 100% sure they don't pressure test it. It's SOP for repairing auto rads but too high pressure for your's.

[santiagodraco]

Thanks guys. I'll give soldering a try today and see what happens. Like you said, can't hurt to try :)

[Jimmer411]

JB weld :D

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

If solder isn't your bag, there's always JB Weld. I wouldn't want to make it an every dayer, but it could probably work.

[Martinm210]

just clean the paint/coating off from around where the puncture is and solder it using a hot iron and flux. if it's small. not really that hard to fix. give it a shot, what do you have to lose,

gl,

andyc

I did exactly this when I put a hole in my MCR320 from using fan screws that were too long. Man I was pissed when I did it, but the soldering worked perfectly and has bee working just fine for over a month now.:up:

The trick was having one of those small cans of flux to really clean out the hole good, then the solder bonding very easily.