stained tubing..

[dem1an]

I have a background in microbiology. I developed vaccines for five years for a living before my trek back into computers. I've grown my share of bacteria and cell culture. In a lab or in production, everything is sterilized prior to use. My feeling is that the only way to keep the liquid clear is start with sterile tubing and sterile rad etc and then use sterile techniques to add the water. In bio-development, we autoclaved everything and what we couldn't autoclave, we used a strong acid solution to sterilize the components.

Obviously most people don't have access to this kind of equipment, but I'm thinking if we flushed the system with something like parvosol first. We used an acid solution in the lab since it was easy enough to dilute and didn't risk killing the next thing we did want to grow. In this case, we could use something pretty toxic to anything. I'd be interested in whether this stuff would make for a good coolant. Do these ingredients look corrosive? If you didn't use the disinfectant to cool with, then you'd have to flush and fill the system with sterile water.

Active Ingredient(s):
n-Alkyl (60% C14, 30% C16, 5% C12, 5% C18) dimethyl benzyl ammonium chlorides 0.105%
n-Alkyl (68% C12, 32% C14) dimethyl ethylbenzyl ammonium chlorides 0.105%
Inert Ingredients 99.790%
Total 100.000

http://www.pbsanimalhealth.com/cgi-l...html?E+scstore

It's actually not a bad color either.

On a side note, I'd be careful with cleaning your loops. If there are bugs growing in your loop, you should probably treat them as if they could hurt you.
Last edited by dem1an : Today at 01:16 PM.