Cleaning kit

qbhatti · 3 Oct 2023 at 16:25

Hi.

I finally managed to get hold of some watercooling kit..but it is used .

Just wondering on what's the best way to clean it all...
Connect it up (pump , res, rad) and run tap water first then a flush with deionised?
Or is there some other fancy way.

Glanza · 3 Oct 2023 at 16:31

Mayhems blitz kit used to be my go to when I ran custom loops.

Jay85 · 3 Oct 2023 at 17:59

I hooked mine up to the outside tap and just run it for 10 mins then run it through with deionised water (halfords 5l bottles are dirt cheap).

qbhatti · 3 Oct 2023 at 18:58

Jay85 said:
I hooked mine up to the outside tap and just run it for 10 mins then run it through with deionised water (halfords 5l bottles are dirt cheap).

Yeah, I'm sure I read that somewhere which is why I mentioned it..looks like that's what I'm doing

qbhatti · 3 Oct 2023 at 19:00

And does anyone use deionised water in their loops these days or is it all fancy liquids ?
This is for an alpha cool 1080 rad which I will mount to the base of my 20u rack.
I now have a 5900x so it really needs some cooling

SpudMaster · 3 Oct 2023 at 23:42

How to clean depends on how dirty it is tbh. If you can see inside the blocks and it doesn't look too bad then a flush through with tap water followed by a quick flush of deionised/distilled water should suffice. If you can see inside the blocks then I'd dismantle them and clean with an old tooth brush and some soapy water followed by a rinse of distilled or deionised water. For rads I've always filled with warm water and about 10% distilled vinegar and left if to stand for about 5 minutes before flushing out.

As for coolant I just use deionised water from Asda (its a couple of quid for about 2 litres) and a few drops of Mayhems Hades+ and Inhibitor+

flea.rider · 4 Oct 2023 at 06:22

qbhatti said:
And does anyone use deionised water in their loops these days or is it all fancy liquids ?
This is for an alpha cool 1080 rad which I will mount to the base of my 20u rack.
I now have a 5900x so it really needs some cooling

all i use and a silver coil ..

clone · 7 Oct 2023 at 07:10

I used to use a small amount of vinegar with distilled water to run for a bit with a filter then rinse with just distilled.

Joe Jones · 7 Oct 2023 at 18:53

I run boiled water and some Zerex stuff from 20 odd years ago (I think it's pretty much water wetter/anti-freeze).

Had loops that are still clean after 10 years with that. You don't need fancy products.

qbhatti · 10 Oct 2023 at 11:29

flea.rider said:
all i use and a silver coil ..

thanks for this - i have ordered some stuff and lets see what happens!

xybp9 · 15 Nov 2023 at 20:03

If anything soapy water followed by clean water rinse followed by distilled water (assuming dH2O is precious)