Very fast discolouring tubes....

Normally i have my Cases next to the kitchen sink (in summer time i do it outside on the grass) and pull the tubs out with the PC at a angle. When you design your loop you should all ways design it with "easy to empty" in mind before looks. A lot of people forget to do this and then scream when they cannot empty there loops easily.

Before emptying a loop i All ways disconnect the power form the PC for 12 hours to drain off any juice that me be left in the caps ect ect, and have extra paper towels or lint free cloths besides me. Im a messy bugger and "all ways" get water on one parts of my pc or another but as long as you give it a good clean up it will be fine. Just use your common sense and you'll be oky.
 
How much do u need i have some spare. I ll give you some if its the right size.

@spixelspixel why it shows how badly the tubing is as its the plasticizer that turns yellow ....

@jeff6475 Can you confirm this for me that XSPC turned funny. As this is the first time we have heard of this and we haven't seen that our self after testing XSPC tubing. If you can confirm it ill speak to XSPC direct.
 
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Err, its not very much actually. I cant get to it at the moment but i will check in the morning.

Really appreciate the help, thanks.

EDIT: rough idea from pictues in my sig. I think it is about 1.5m total, quite possibly less.
 
I used some mayhems blue dye to make my grape red pastel a light purple colour and all was fine for a while.

Then while I was at work my brother though it would be hilarious to empty the entire dye bottle into my res as a 'prank'. Anyhoo my primochill tubing now has a powerul green tint to it lol. So green I can barely see the purple when light shines on it.
I don't have time to drain rhose and refill atm so:

A few questions for mick-
-will having the whole dye bottle in the loop affect the ph or anything or i should worry about?
- my loop is based on an external rad under my desk. If I replace the tubing in my case but leave all the tubing onthe external rad/res/pump, will the staining spread from that?
Cheers
 
Everything that I've read suggests that any dye/staining that is still in your loop will spread. I've seen people who replaced all the tubing still have problems as they had dye in the blocks/pump/res/fittings that wasn't fully cleaned out and spoiled new fluid/tubing. I think your best bet would be to drain, run clean fluid through the loop a few times and then replace if you're keen to get the colour out.
 
SirConfused said:
Everything that I've read suggests that any dye/staining that is still in your loop will spread. I've seen people who replaced all the tubing still have problems as they had dye in the blocks/pump/res/fittings that wasn't fully cleaned out and spoiled new fluid/tubing. I think your best bet would be to drain, run clean fluid through the loop a few times and then replace if you're keen to get the colour out.
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