I had ordered new tubes last week, I decided to drop the tygon and go Primochill tubes for a change, yet what I see on my loop is more corrosion than any thing else, which again is pushing me towards buying thermochill EC6.
I had ordered new tubes last week, I decided to drop the tygon and go Primochill tubes for a change, yet what I see on my loop is more corrosion than any thing else, which again is pushing me towards buying thermochill EC6.
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Tubes don't cause corrosion, maybe you're talking about plasticizer?
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Originally Posted by Onoff312
Tubes don't cause corrosion but plasticizer is also nasty !
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*looks at own tubes* Yep, yep it is.
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Guys what's the best way to clean the Res. I tried to scratch it with some cotton but that did not work, the acrylic in my res. is also kind of fuggy
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I never been able to clean a clouded reservoir. There was thread a while back about trying to clean a clouded GPU (Shazza I think). please post a picture of your cleaned CPU block.
Would love to but after cleaning the internal of the block ( though not 100% clean ) I decided to screw it back with its top using the 2 screws left, alas I over tightened the screws so one of them doesn't unscrew any more
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one thread reported using rice & vinegar to clean out an infected acrylic reservoir but i have no personal experience with thisGuys what's the best way to clean the Res. I tried to scratch it with some cotton but that did not work, the acrylic in my res. is also kind of fuggy
here is a thread on using silver as a biocide that i meant to leave with my earlier post:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...77&mode=linear
good luck
I cleaned my 4 year old EK res using Klasse All in One - its crystal clear again now.
Yeah I had some gunk like this in my block last time I checked as well, jug of distilled from the grocery + PT. Don't think I overdid the latter but possible.
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so is it the tubing or the water?
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Errrr....................OK
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My tygon tubes did the same thing. Weird part, is that the separate GPU loop did not turn as cloudy, using the same tubing. This leads me to believe something in our loops to be causing the problem. (you can see it in my avatar) Leaning towards too much PT Nuke, because I use that also but seem to remember putting much less in the GPU loop.
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So I might move on to silver I'm thinking, at least when I get new block(s).
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well now we know if we use too much pt nuke it clouds up your loop but how much does it affect your blocks.
kill coil looks like the easier way to go just dropping it into your res.
much learned
Ya I'm thinking of dropping PT_Nuke, there is a silver shop close to where I live, might pass by and ask for a string of silver.
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could we pick it up @ any jewelry store and how much do we need?
Will a small piece of 925 silver work?
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Yes, but you need 99.9% or .999 silver for best results. Sterling is 92%. The silver coils are 1 to 2 grams but one person used a 10 gm ingot to avoid movement in the reservoir.
When I tear down again, I am going to try true silver fittings. Allegedly 2 to 4 will equal a coil from various threads.
General link on silver from this forum listed above
buy or make your own silver coils which I have done and they are easy to make.
Wow that is crazy. I have used nothing but pure distilled water for 7 years now and Ive never had any issues like this. :o
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Yeah unless we just got poorly filtered distilled (which I suppose is possible) then it's got be the PTN...
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The major question really is what's causing the corrosion in the loop?
How could some one know that the dist. water they are using is of a good quality !!?!?
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Well this has thoroughly scared the crap out of me. I went a little heavy with the PT nuke in my loop, since last time when I followed their instructions algae started to grow.
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