Apogee drive owners, leaking...

[Spawne32]

Just got my apogee drive in today from petras, and the damn thing is leaking around the base of the pump where it connects to the LGA775 mounting plate. From what i can gather, the screws being placed only on the one side is causing it to lift on the other side where water can slip past the gasket. Now i made no modifications to screw tighteness when i first got it, when the leak happened i tried tightening the bolts, and it only leaks more, i tried lossening them a little looser and same thing. Not exactly sure what to make of this, has anyone else had this problem? Ill be shooting an email over to gabe but i wanted to get some feedback as well.

[TI66ER]

Did you have a look inside to make sure the seals are in place? i had one but i never leaked for me.

[Stewie007]

Sounds like you may have a broken o ring/gasket. Perhaps it was pinched during assembly and this caused it to fail.

When I say assembly, Im talking about Swiftech assembly, not you. Might wanna call up Swiffy on this for a replacement seal.

[Spawne32]

gabes gona have it replaced for me, they sent me an email this morning, yah i took the whole thing apart after it kept leaking regardless of how i tightened or loosened the screws, the gaskets appeared to be intact just fine, but they were barely up past the plastic that they are seated in, almost as if they shrunk. Not sure how thick the gaskets are supposed to be so its very well possible that they are fine and the plastic mounting bracket is bowed.

[gabe]

gabes gona have it replaced for me, they sent me an email this morning, yah i took the whole thing apart after it kept leaking regardless of how i tightened or loosened the screws, the gaskets appeared to be intact just fine, but they were barely up past the plastic that they are seated in, almost as if they shrunk. Not sure how thick the gaskets are supposed to be so its very well possible that they are fine and the plastic mounting bracket is bowed.

what surprises me (as mentioned in my email to you), is that these are 100% tested before shipping.. Not sample testing.. 100%..

[warriorpoet]

what surprises me (as mentioned in my email to you), is that these are 100% tested before shipping.. Not sample testing.. 100%..

That's impressive, Gabe.

[Serpentarius]

normally during manufacturing assembly .. the testing is part of it ... each and every product will have to go thru testing to maintain standards and faulty
it's the bots who does the testing .. sometimes human participate in it if the assembly line requires a human's touch

occasionally, a random product is picked out and perform rigous testing ... i recall it's part of the ISO requirement

[warriorpoet]

normally during manufacturing assembly .. the testing is part of it ... each and every product will have to go thru testing to maintain standards and faulty
it's the bots who does the testing .. sometimes human participate in it if the assembly line requires a human's touch

occasionally, a random product is picked out and perform rigous testing ... i recall it's part of the ISO requirement

Which is what makes 100% testing impressive, especially with a small company like Swiftech.

[Stewie007]

Even the best quality control systems can send out a defect; as can be seen by this thread here.

[Spawne32]

what surprises me (as mentioned in my email to you), is that these are 100% tested before shipping.. Not sample testing.. 100%..

it never leaked during my pretesting either, only after it was mounted to the board did it start leaking out of the side, only thing i could have done after this was use form-a-gasket to make a better seal along the permiter of the mounting plate but i didnt want to do that without checking with you first for RMA

[Vapor]

Gabe, any ETA on a 1366 bracket for the Apogee Drive? Maybe a combo 1366 and 775 bracket so you don't have to empty the loop when switching sockets

I'm a big fan of my Apogee Drive.