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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:17 pm 
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tectaloy gold does the job,1lt makes 15lt's,good for 2 yrs with tap water or 3 yrs with distilled water,good value for under $20

 

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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 7:03 pm 
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Tectaloy gold with tap water lasts 60,000ks with demineralised lasts 100,000ks

 

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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:03 pm 
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tiny56 wrote:
what would bottled water or spring water be like to use?


Bad,

They're generally high in minerals.

Distilled/Demineralised water is cheaper and easily obtained.

I just flushed the cooling system in my computer, replaced with demineralised water, and 200mL of Nulon Ultra Cool, Glycol free inhibitor. </nerd>

 

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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:05 am 
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prob my bad i didnt xplain 2 good

in a once only situation in a remote place i had to replace coolant 4 sumone and i had a choice of using river water or bottled picadilly spring water mixed with tecalloy gold

is this bad - should i flush and replace with demineralised water
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:31 am 
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It's not going to kill anything. Just it's higher in the minerals that'll gunk it up (like what hard water mentioned above would do).

 

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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:23 am 
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I just flushed the cooling system in my computer, replaced with demineralised water, and 200mL of Nulon Ultra Cool, Glycol free inhibitor. </nerd>



Ever had that leak? Always been concerned about mixing these water cooling systems and electronics.

 

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Not really a leak, but a loose seal the the coolant evaporated through. Fixed with some thead seal tape.

As always you should let the system run pump only for a period of time, to check for leaks before you get the computer running. For example yesterday I had the pump running from a 12v SLA battery for 2 hours afterI refilled it. i wasn't expecting any leaks as I didn't pull anything apart. But just to be sure.

 

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