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silver kills all bacteria. or at least the famous 99.99% figure :) and it's thermaltake premix, some UV stuff, but algae still built up. anywhoo, I'm gonna do it, will let you guys know if there's an explosion.

cheers, Juan
 
Juantjie said:
silver kills all bacteria. or at least the famous 99.99% figure :) and it's thermaltake premix, some UV stuff, but algae still built up. anywhoo, I'm gonna do it, will let you guys know if there's an explosion.
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id be interested to know the outcome of this :)

i was thinking to ask the girlfriend if she had any odd earings or anything that were silver to chuck into the res :D
 
Just a small suggestion, but would chlorine tablets do the job as well? I'm not really sure what happens with the radiator fluid if you add chlorine to it however, but if you were using distilled water that would be a good idea.
 
well guys like I said, you only need 10 parts per billion. so that means that a dust speckle in your loop would be more than enough, and that's what I did, only added a tiny amount. I'm pretty sure 1 gram won't cause a block in the pump :p

and chlorine should work too bro. only add a tiny bit though! and I'm not recommending it, maybe do some research around it first. I know that corrosion is a problem with w/c setups, different metals don't go well together. not sure about chlorine tho! might eventually react with aluminium in the radiators, but no problem there, it would still kill dem bacterias :)
 
craarc said:
just means its worth having a good spring clean now and then to keep it all checked out and ship shape i guess thats part of the fun
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very true.... I'm always potching with mine, I've reused the same Mayhems pastel blue over and over for ages from draining and re-filling - in conjunction with masterkleer tubing there isn't a hint of residue.

Mucking about is most of the fun!

Once you've messed up and had to drain, disassemble, reassemble and re-fill your loop 5 times in your first afternoon... you learn its not the effort you initially thought it all was when first starting.



Most of these 'horror' stories with sludge blocking are caused by older products, tube plastiser or older tech fluids.... and non of which cause absolute failure.



OP - that is quite a build up. Was it the temps that first alerted you to the fact there was something wrong? Do you have a flow monitor as well?
 
Here's a question:

"Why do modern loops algae up?"

I ask because I ran a loop back in the days of the Astek Waterchill kits and AXP 2500+, and for 2 years I didn't have a single bit of build up. Is it down to the additional heat, or is it just in extended/hard usage cases like Biffa's where this is a problem?
 
Who the Mayhems rep? Not herd a peep. Mick if you see this, email me via the trust button on this forum. Your forum has disappeared from your site :)

The system this was in wasn't completely flushed out, so there is probably plenty of samples you can have.

My latest build I've moved to a different system of liquids which hopefully will see right, so I'll go back, flush the system and use the new protocol :p

I'm gradually getting there, no more EK nickel, no more Primochill tubing, no more EC6 fluid. Only taken me 10 years. Heh.

My latest methodology is flush the system out as usual, then run the full leak test with distilled which should flush it out even more under pressure, then drain and use Nanoxia Hyperzero with a silver kill coil just for added belt and braces.

No dyes, nothing too fancy, just anticorrosion and some anti algae. Clear tubing, minimise restriction wherever possible and also I can see whats going on :)
 
Hehe, summary of all things watercooling. I'll never forgive Primoflex for tubing that gave similar results despite thier claim to the contrary a few years back. This was with the hugely restrictive Storm block so if you think you had issues with flow....;)
 
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