is still or mineral water okay for watercooling?

Jay85 · 1 Jan 2012 at 16:26

As above, is the stuff you get from your local supermarket okay for watercooling loops?

I assumed it is aslong as its not tap water?

Cleeecooo · 1 Jan 2012 at 16:30

Distilled only.

Mineral water still has bad stuff in it.

Not certain about still, but halfords sells deionised water for £3

wazza300 · 1 Jan 2012 at 16:30

no,only use distilled/deionised water,buy from a car parts shop,its just water that hasnt come into contact with metal,you dont know what type of rocks the mineral water has been in contact with(limestone ect) which you dont want any limescale in the system

Jay85 · 1 Jan 2012 at 16:32

Ah balls, i've been using still water/mineral water in my loop for the past few days...

Guess i'll be making a trip to halfords on wednesday!

Cleeecooo · 1 Jan 2012 at 16:34

It's fine for now.

I've been using tap water for the past 7 months

Jay85 · 1 Jan 2012 at 16:36

Cleeecooo said:
It's fine for now.

I've been using tap water for the past 7 months

:O Why??

Surely their will be a fair amount of build up of foreign crap by now :S?

How do you go about cleaning the stuff off

?

Cleeecooo · 1 Jan 2012 at 16:42

Mainly CBA to use the 14l of deionised I have

clean with hot water

Jay794 · 1 Jan 2012 at 16:53

Use Vodka!

mjones1 · 1 Jan 2012 at 17:15

Jay794 said:
Use Vodka!

People have used a mixture of water & vodka in their loop (i think it was a chiller) to prevent the liquid from freezing.

Jay85 · 1 Jan 2012 at 17:29

lol using vodka in a loop sounds insane tbh!

I think i'll pass! I'll make sure to clean out with hot water though before i reassamble my loop

Jokester · 1 Jan 2012 at 17:46

Hope it was Perrier.

It probably won't do it any real harm to be honest.

Mayhems · 1 Jan 2012 at 17:48

Not really we have been testing distilled 89% pure alcohol (trying to get it down to 95% but we need to get some filters) at home and using it to test in my water cooler how ever i have noticed that my res has had problems with the alcohol so we then switched it to 50/50 mix of our vegetable extract and ultra pure wich seems to do a much better job.

The alcohol is been made by a friend of mine in his distiller which is fun to see. I thought i was mad till i saw his set up .. its insane ....

red eye · 3 Jan 2012 at 23:08

mlwood37 said:
Not really we have been testing distilled 89% pure alcohol (trying to get it down to 95% but we need to get some filters) at home and using it to test in my water cooler how ever i have noticed that my res has had problems with the alcohol so we then switched it to 50/50 mix of our vegetable extract and ultra pure wich seems to do a much better job.

The alcohol is been made by a friend of mine in his distiller which is fun to see. I thought i was mad till i saw his set up .. its insane ....

how much for a liter of the 89%?

Mayhems · 4 Jan 2012 at 07:05

we cannot sell it, its illegal for us to deal. Unless we had a licence and all so the tax on it would be crazy. All so the effort it takes to make 1 Ltr is not worth the money consumers would pay.

jonneymendoza · 4 Jan 2012 at 08:35

Cleeecooo said:
It's fine for now.

I've been using tap water for the past 7 months

haha tap water! might as well take a pee in your loop

Harpss1ngh · 4 Jan 2012 at 13:28

I've seen videos on Youtube of people's rigs fully submerged in a fish tank full of baby oil! Looks awesome!

Harpss1ngh · 4 Jan 2012 at 13:28

jonneymendoza said:
haha tap water! might as well take a pee in your loop

Won't need any dye to make it Yellow/Green either

red eye · 4 Jan 2012 at 14:28

mlwood37 said:
we cannot sell it, its illegal for us to deal. Unless we had a licence and all so the tax on it would be crazy. All so the effort it takes to make 1 Ltr is not worth the money consumers would pay.

lol i was toying with the idea of making alcohol with an old boiler, then I read storyes of explosions which put me off, too bad it could have kept me and my car in drink