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Cleaning the loop

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Is there any specail ways that you guys clean out your loops? I originally installed my setup only cooling my cpu. But intended on cooling my x800 Pro as well. Well now is the time to cool the vid card. But it was ALOT harder then I expected to drain my system...... So now I ask a couple questions.

I currently use a resevoir, so what techniques would you guys suggest for draining? I thought about buying a plug and using my third port and haveing a couple inches of tubing just hanging off the res for draining. But then I decided I don't like the look. What else would you suggest?

And then my original topic. Is there any like disenfecting stuff that I can use to help remove some of the bacteria that will make my water gain conductivity faster? My original plan was to just leave the end of my loop open and poor my res full of distilled water and then run the pump and do that a couple of times. Then I would fill the res with vineger and run pump till it's dry to remove build up. Then run some more water through it again to clean out the vineger. And then let it dry over night and then add my MCT-40 that I got for free and reconnect my loop. Does this sound like a good idea?
 
nobody cleans their loops? Or do you just flush it and add new stuff?

I noticed that my tubes were stained green from the MCT-40.
 
new tubing is insanly cheap, so do that...clean the radiator often...and just change the water every 6months to a year.
 
If you don't wanna go though the hassle of replacing your tubing, then do this.

Make a mixture of 40% pine-sol, 10% lysol (the liquid kind), and 50% water. These numbers do not need to be exact, but try to get close to this ratio.

It cleaned my loop very well. The only thing you need to worry about is bubbles - it is difficult to fill some systems completely with this mixture since the pump turbulence creates bubbles (which foam out when you add more). I noticed this method is a BIG pain for bay res's.

You will need to do a couple runs of just water after you flush this to get all of the pine-sol and lysol out (along with the bubbles).

It might be a pain, but it works well to get the clear crap off your tubing :).
 
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