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Water Cooling PETG Tubing need help


razorbck64

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It has been awhile since I have posted here.  I believe it was 2011...lol  

 

Ok I have quick question.  I had no hazing at all on any of my tubes when i installed into my system.  Now 4 to 5 days later I have hazing on most of my tubing.  I had no hazing at all on any of my bends.  .  Any Ideas of why this is happening.  I am going too have to redo all the tubes and do not want to make the same mistake.  16mm PETG Tubing. 

 

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It was ThermalTake c1000 red. 

 

As I tore down the system I noticed small white particles everywhere in my system. I suspect these are nano particles.   All I know is it clogged everything up including my radiator and cpu block.  I had to completely flush and rinse my radiator and cpu block.   I took a small towelette on a small dowel and was able to clean all the insides of the tubes. 

I should have taken pictures it was amazing how much fine white nano particles were in my system.   

 

System is  back up no color water just plan distilled water.  My temps are 3 degrees better and no worrying about the coolant clogging up my loop.  

 

I am going to get primochill red dye to dye my loop.  I am done with any coolant that has nano particles.......

 

Thanks

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Yea. I went against my better judgement and went with the new coolant.  I figured they are selling it and I was not able to find any bad reviews...lol.  My mistake.

 

 

You know what the clear loop makes my computer even better looking with the LEDs then that fancy coolant did.  Live and learn.  

 

Now for some overclocking......

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Im doing some finishing up on my rig, thought I would try out the PTEG tubing this time.  Going to run XSPC blood red color additive in the loop, haven't read any bad reviews about it yet.

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Primochill PETG tubing.  Been running distilled for week no more problems....lol.  

 

"Most likely it's Plasticizer caused by using low cost tubing,."   Yea this is what I thought at first.  However the particles were super fine and they were also in the unused portion of the coolant I used.....

 

Maybe the cheap plastic container it came in was  plasticizing.    

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Glade you got it all worked out, distilled water & silver-coil is always best to avoid issues.

 

PrimoChill PETG tubing is non-compatible with  Ethane-1,2-diol (Ethylene Glycol) as listed in Warnings/Cautions on tubing site. http://www.primochill.com/product/primochill-12in-rigid-petg-tube-36in-4-pack-clear/

 

Thermaltake C1000 Red contains >90% Ethane-1,2-diol (Ethylene Glycol) as listed in Section 3 of fluid datasheet. http://www.thermaltake.com/db/support/usermanual/_348e924b87bb48298e845efe952706c2.pdf

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