Does new radiator need some distill flush before use ???
New Radiator shoud be flush before use???
Does new radiator need some distill flush before use ???
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Yes. Always, never know what is in there from the manufacturing.
Fill rad full of almost boiling water, tap water is fine. let sit 10 minutes or so. drain half out or so. Shake for a few minutes. Pour in a glass bowl, let water settle for 10 min. Do again if stuff. When clean, rinse with distilled, then build.
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Most definitely. Otherwise you'll likely have some weird stuff in your loop...
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Usually get a fair amount of junk out of new rads. I did just use my first 2 EK rads the other day and the water I used to rinse them was crystal clear, was impressed.
I'll still clean every rad every time though, just in case
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Depending on the quality of your tapwater it's probably safe to use it to flush your radiator, as long as you do the final flush with distilled to get rid of any tapwater.
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Oh god, you should see the crap that came out of my two 360s. I would not want that stuff hitting my pump over and over.
I filled them with boiling water, slushed it around for a 30 seconds or so and them flushed them with distilled.
Some advice, do not press them directly against the faucet, just keep it a few inches below it. The pressure that's on the water system is enough to potentially blow up your radiator's insides.
Last edited by Alexandr0s; 01-14-2011 at 11:43 AM.
“Little expense had been spared to create the impression that no expense had been spared.” - Hitchhiker's GuideMondays:It's better to ask dumb questions now, than to look stupid later
I would flush mine with a glass of distilled water cooked by the microwave. It does not take much to heat it up in the microwave, which is a lot faster than boiling the water with the stove. I would pour it into the rad and then sake it evenly for about 5 minutes and let it settle for about 5 minutes and then repeat the process a couple of times. I have a few of BI rads and I have not seen one that is dirty inside out of the box but I would still flush it just to be safe than sorry.
Boiling water could cause solder to melt no?
-try boiling the water outside the rad
-just kidding
-solder melts at a higher temp . you could let water cool a bit , try it pour it out into a white bowl and see whats in there.
Last edited by UNTAMED; 01-14-2011 at 07:35 PM.
heh I'm saying after you boil water and then pour into radiator. Couldnt that be hot enough to destroy solder?
Just bought a mcr 2x120 and a 3x120. Flushed them out, out of the 2x120 came a metal curlie que, and some black specks, the 3x120 had black specks in it. Flushed until no more specks or debrie, rinsed with distilled water.
Thoroughly rinsed my MCR320 out before I used it, nothing came out. Only thing I could remember the day I got it was that the paint didn't seem to be 100% dry as weird as that seems.
It might get close to some very low temp solders melting points but for a rad I'd assume they were brazed with a medium to high temp solder. IMHO it'd have to be a very poor quality rad to be degraded by boiling water as I've used it before for flushing many times.
I've also boiled water in the loop with a TEC by turning the computer/fans off and forgetting bout the pump/TEC, made a bit of a mess when the water started squirting everywhere but no damage to the rad - or computer thankfully (Sadly I managed to do that twice!!!!)
Fill the rad and shake shake shake shake shake, rinse and repeat
Another thing I find funny is AMD/Intel would snipe any of our Moms on a grocery run if it meant good quarterly results, and you are forever whining about what feser did?
SHAKE Weight?!Fill the rad and shake shake shake shake shake, rinse and repeat
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Flushed my band new Black Ice 360 rad.
What came out? Nada.......nada thing.
better be safe then sorry
Another thing I find funny is AMD/Intel would snipe any of our Moms on a grocery run if it meant good quarterly results, and you are forever whining about what feser did?
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