Disaster narrowly averted!

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I was happily putting my Sunday afternoon to good use by draining down my loop to add in new blocks for my GTX1080s when the mrs said to me 'should you be doing that with it plugged in?'

I then realised that I still had the PC plugged in and the power supply was still switched on! Luckily I hadn't spilled much and no damage was done. Has anyone else done anything daft like this when building or dismantling a loop?
 
Similar to Undesirable here, I have to move my pc's to drain due to them being connected to external rads etc.

So should be a safe bet :)
 
I had the lack of common sense to remove and refit tubing onto barbs without any clamps. (7/16" hose on 1/2" barbs) I then proceeded to leave my pc running heaven to stress test it whilst having breakfast. Came back to find that it was no longer on. Further investigation soon revealed a large pool of fluid around the base of the case. Turned out that the tubing on the cpu block inlet had popped off and the coolant had just pumped straight out from the top radiator down onto the gpu, motherboard and sound card. How the hell everything survived that, I don't know considering it was doused with around half a litre. I'm still using all of the components today.

I learned a few good lessons that day.
 
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Lol.

I used to always use barbs without clamps.
Silicone tubing just didn't need them.

But with Tygon and more modern pumps you need some sort of clamp.
I'm using tie wraps :D
 
This is the reason I haven't watercooled, I'd like to do it on my next rig but I'd be close to killing myself if I screwed it up.
 
Filling a loop at 4am and forgot to cap my fill port on a multi port rad before I turn on a pump. Fluid everywhere.

Everything survived though since the fluid was non-conductive and brand new.

TLDR: Don’t fill the loop at 4am
 
Messing around with my loop and was complacent, ended up ruining my motherboard and Titan XP.

Very gutted.
Fortunately I was able to claim it all back, minus £250 excess from my home insurance!
 
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