Make your own Aurora.

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Unfortunately my radiators mean that I have small dead zones so Mayhems Aurora works out extortionately expensive to buy 2-4 bottles of booster to bring it back.

Anyway after some research I found out how to make my own, simply purchase some Titanium Dioxide coated Mica Powder. You can buy 100grams for about the same price as a bottle of Aurora, but this will last you years.

Heres a small video showing how adding 2.5 grams to the system goes.

 

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Im 99% certain the blocks arn't being clogged up by it, as they have the semi-transparent tops and you can see the fluid moving through them fine.

I believe that the issue lies in the right angle the water hits in the radiator just before going to the outlet or just at the inlet. It would be a kind of dead spot so to speak as the water would want to "sweep" via the path of least resistance, so, I figure one of 2 things, either something horrible will happen, or eventually i'll fill this dead zone with so much powder, that it wont have room for more to settle out and it will stay suspended!

 

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Ill presume you haven't got a clue what Zeta potential is and hope you can afford to replace your pump.

Don't worry Mick, ive got a whole bunch of other things lined up if this doesn't work There's only so many ways to mix a rheoscopic fluid up, petal dust, zein, shellac, glycol stearate etc...

Currently though after 6 months of using the titanium dioxide mica, nothing adverse appears to be happening.

 

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I'm a little confused that people are surprised a product developer isn't telling you how to manufacture his product for a fraction of the price.

He would be out of business within months if he divulged his knowledge and research here. Surely you understand that?

Give away his secrets? No, don't expect that. Reply with asinine comments? Don't expect that either.

As someone else pointed out, a reply of "we tried this but it wont work because XYZ" would have been infinitely better.

Instead I am now more determined than ever to find out exactly what makes aurora, and have ordered a bottle of official booster to analyze what its composition is.

 

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There are a number of issues here. The first and most glaringly obvious problem is DIYing fluids from a YouTube video and putting £100s of hardware at risk in your loop.

The point is Mayhems is a company whose sole purpose is to research and develop coolants. At least when you use their product you know it's got some kind of backing and work in it. If you use Aurora fluid and it catastrophically screws my system up youn will have some claim from them.

If you screw your own loop up using some product you threw in, well - That's your risk to take.

Sure, Aurora fluids could just be exactly the same as the supposed DIY method. But is that a risk you are willing to take?

How naive.

If aurora goes wrong and clumps or otherwise screws your system, the only claim you'll be able to make is to Mayhems middle finger as they'll soon be quick to point out for short term use only or in extremely simple loops etc etc.

 

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Mayhems clearly point out the use cases for Aurora. They also test it to a certain degree on certain hardware. You know what you are getting.

What do you know about throwing some off the shelf additive to coolant in a DIY scenario...absolutely nothing.

I know that in 6 months of use, my blocks arnt blocked and my pumps are running fine despite having one of the most complex loops in any pc out there, running my pumps on next to the lowest setting possible, despite mayhems own site saying D5's need to be run on 4 or 5 setting.

 

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Nope he never showed how it works or is made. What he's done is as some ones put, used make-up or i called it a alternative product to put in your system and yes there is Youtube vids doing it so its nothing new.

Damage wise it screws up your pumps big time and will imbalance impellers as the partials are way to big and off set pump heads (sorry no scare tactics involved just pure fact), it will also clog your blocks because the particles are to big.

If op would like to see how Aurora is really made he can come up to darlo where ill show him, Nothing is as simple as it look some times.

I'll take you up on that as soon as its convenient

 

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In fairness, thought, why not, I have a nice bresser microscope, so got the 2 samples and put them onto slides.

Heres what I saw, sorry unfortunately the capture from the microscope isnt as good as the live view. But, feel free to guess which is which, and maybe a reason as to why?

Both are at 100x magnification.