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Bah! Water cooling

Yeah, I have :)

I got it sorted now for sure :D

I noticed a pattern emerging with the bubbled and their place within my system and got them to shift into the rad, where Marci's method worked wonders to get the last lot into my res.

I got abit of a trickle noise in my res at the moment, currently got it sat 45% upwards with the cap near off to let air escape, then going to drop abit more water in, should hopefully make the trickle go away!
 
Ok, anyone got any experiences with DangerDen 5.25" bayres? The acrylic one?

Problem is, it's fill port thread comes from a square piece of plastic and once the res is rammed full of water, the air can't get past this square and to the port to bleed.

My loop seems to be running fine, just I get tiny little bubbles get sucked back into the pump every now and then.

So, I've tried raising the res to an angle to get the air out like in Figure 2.

Figure 1 shows that on the right, where water comes from the rad, the big airbubble in the res breaks into smaller ones and they rush around the front of the centre acrylic seperator and break into smaller bubbles which then pass over the middle acrylic to where they originated. Yet one or two tiny tiny air pockets get sucked in.

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Problem is, the res is virtually so full. I can fill it at an angle as water will just come back out and lying it flat is the same too and I get a large air bubble slap bang in the middle.

This res is CPAP!
 
I had that problem when i had a DD res, I just had to tilt it back as much as possible (diagonally) and fill it up to the maximum with a really really small air gap which is impossible to fill up IMO. Once filled hold it diagonally still and screw the cap back on and then put it back as normal.

Hopefully that helps!! :)
 
I'm going to swap it out for a MCRES from Swiftech, not putting up with this piece of poor designed crap. I didn't really revise on resevoirs at all, as thought they all did the same thing. :)
 
You have pretty much same spec as me and I never had as many problems as you :confused: :confused:

EDIT: forgot to add, not one single problem

I did what Gangster suggests, give that a try
 
Mekrel said:
I'm going to swap it out for a MCRES from Swiftech, not putting up with this piece of poor designed crap. I didn't really revise on resevoirs at all, as thought they all did the same thing. :)
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the swiftech mcres will definitely solve the problem of air constantly being reintroduced into the system.

in through the top and out through the bottom...no way air can come in there. Also the mcres looks blingin :D
 
Mekrel said:
I'm going to swap it out for a MCRES from Swiftech, not putting up with this piece of poor designed crap. I didn't really revise on resevoirs at all, as thought they all did the same thing. :)
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You've got a similar layout to my loop.. I had similar problems to you, but not quite as bad! I'm trying to find a MCRES somewhere in stock so I can change, but those things seem to be like rocking horse crap! Should make bleeding easier with that as I can mount it in the top of the case, making it the highest point...
 
Townlea said:
You have pretty much same spec as me and I never had as many problems as you :confused: :confused:

EDIT: forgot to add, not one single problem

I did what Gangster suggests, give that a try
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I've already tried this though, i.e getting the air pocket to the fill port and filling into the air pocket, problem is air rises to the top and isn't going to shift and it stick to the top corner. Basically making it impossible to get air out of this thing. It's not bad, but I get the tiny bubble go into the pump.
 
I really doubt it has anything to do with the res. I had the 3 3/4" one. It's no doubt air the rad. tip the case a few times, start stop the pump, get the air to the top, fill up, repeat.
 
i'm trying to find a MCRES too.

looks like the US will be the best bet. maybe if all of us who need them (and i wager its a few) petition OCuk, they will get them in quicker ??

maybe worth a try.
 
I already put my order through for one on Wed nite on OcUK before I realised they weren't in stock.. Stupid me! It shouldn't let you order stuff not in stock! Suppose it'll just wait until it comes in..

Means I've got to put off sorting out my loop as I can't be arsed to empty it twice.
 
You could introduce a T without emptying the loop. Find the highest point in the loop, cut the tubing, insert T-piece, add some extra tubing to the vertical T. (Oh, turn off the system first ;) )
 
weescott said:
I really doubt it has anything to do with the res. I had the 3 3/4" one. It's no doubt air the rad. tip the case a few times, start stop the pump, get the air to the top, fill up, repeat.
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Can't be air in my rad I dont think as when I unscrew the air bleed screw on the rad, water comes out. But I'll give it a try :)
 
Well I made sure that the barbs for the rad were at the top by standing it on end, and that the res is highest part of system. Took rad out as pictured.



Ran pump a bit, shook like a mad man and some air did come out.

Bled res as much as I could, then blanced really carefully so I could put in water. Yet the res is a POS and if too flat air goes into middle and tilting it, you can fill up to the fill hole but after that the air goes past the fill hole into the corner.

Pump running, air breaks into small pockets.


 
Open the fill-hole, put in a piece of sponge and push up into the top corner. It doesn't matter if it blocks the fill-hole by the way. The air will go up into that stay there.
 
Mekrel, is that tubing your using 7 / 16 ?

I see you've made a hole in your case and put one of those rubber rings on it for your tubing to go through, were can you buy those rings for the 7 / 16 tubing? or what are they called?

Thanks
 
NachT said:
Mekrel, is that tubing your using 7 / 16 ?

I see you've made a hole in your case and put one of those rubber rings on it for your tubing to go through, were can you buy those rings for the 7 / 16 tubing? or what are they called?

Thanks
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Rubber grommet - most hardware stores ;)
 
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