New homemade chiller questions.

[lonepig]

I'm making a water chiller out of an old freezer and have a few alterations i'd like to make.

The evap coil at the moment is much bigger than i'd like, 475mm square, so 'd like to bend in to reduce the size by half. The problem is that the evap appears to be steel so I was wondering if a pipebender would be upto this. Without spending £100's on one. BTW i'm in the UK.

Also i've read that some people use vaseline instead of dielectric grease, has anybody tryed this? Does it work and is it safe?

Many thanks

[Blergo]

i use vasaline, never tried dielectric grease though so i cant say if there are any difrences, vaseline is a good bet in my opinion though :)

[lonepig]

Cheers Blergo, how long you been running your system with it?

[Blergo]

ive been runing several systems useing vaseline, i had a duron 1.4 that was peltier cooled useing vaseline for about 3 months. i know a lot of people that use vaseline and havent had any problems with it. :)

[lonepig]

Thanks Blergo, nobody had any experience bending steel evap's then?

[kommando]

Steel would be bloody strong ain't it?

Sooo might be a bit hard to change the shape.

[lonepig]

Yup thats my problem :S :P.