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Watercooling Cleaning

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DaBuddMon

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I've had my watercooled rig for two years now. I'm going to be doing a small upgrade to my processor and CPU, and since I'm taking everything apart I think it will be a great time to clean everything up (plus change water again). Anyway, what do you guys generally do to clean out your water tubes and pumps? I was thinking of running vinegar through them for about an hour, drain it, run water through it, drain again and then proceed to refill it. Anyone ever try this?
 
Vinegar should work ok, is there crusty buildup on your tubing or anything? Mine got stained and nasty from water-wetter & dye so I just replaced a few sections last time I drained & replaced my pump.
 
don't use vinegar, there are better alternatives. Although vinegar will clean up copper pretty well (it's acidic). I've heard to clean the gunk off your tubing to use a 50% tap water, 40% pine sol, 10% lysol solution. I tried it, and didn't have as good results with it as other people (procooling.com). They said the gunk would just start fallign off the tubing and suddenly everything would be crystal clear again. I did have some good experiences and my tubing did get noticeably cleaner, but the solution didn't really mix that well (the pinesol/water mixed together, but the lysol was of a different density and floated on top [it seperated when i let The solution sit]). When running through the tubing it was very milky and cloudy, so i think i might've gotten the wrong lysol product...

whatever you do, do NOT use bleach.
 
if you do a search on procooling's forums for algae you'll probably find the thread. That's the 'magical' formula apparently. I think the reason it didn't clean my tubing out so well is because i didn't have any 'growth' on my tubes, just stains. I'm pretty sure i used the wrong type of lysol, too.
 
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