Orange GT project

[MRDcanadian]

got the stuff today. I fell like i am a kid when he first saw Santa in person and got the best gift ever at the same time. hi hi

[MRDcanadian]

Ummm question, is it normal that the inside of my rad plug as oxidizes already even if new and never used?

[gdesmo]

What is the plug made of and send a picture.

[MRDcanadian]

i believe it's made of brass. trying to upload the photo but it's not working grrrr. it's blue green ish stuff that is normaly what is oxidation. it's not washed yet.

[gdesmo]

Yes, they did not flush it well, if at all. Soldering paste is a jelled mild acid that if not cleaned leaves that bluish-green patina of oxidation. It is just like copper roofs on older buildings that are out in the elements being subjected to that acid rain and oxygen.

[DazMode]

Ummm question, is it normal that the inside of my rad plug as oxidizes already even if new and never used?

In way it is. It is welded to the body so sometomes you see some white stuff....

[scaccima]

I always boil some distilled water, pour it into my new rad, seal it up and shake the heck out of it, drain and repeat. I'm a little on the anal side so I usually use about 3 to 4 litres of boiled distilled water for flushing my rads. So far (knock on wood) no issues with contaminates in my loops.

[MRDcanadian]

ok so what i am understanding, is that is a partial normal thing and i shouldn't worrie about. just didn't want to go througt the trouble of setting everything up and the rad isn't good after a few months.

[MRDcanadian]

here is the pic

[scaccima]

What brand is the rad again? I think you're okay. If this rad was mine, I would flush it with boiling distilled water like I mentioned before (just so I could sleep easy at night.)

[MRDcanadian]

it's EK-CoolStream RAD XTX 360 - Triple Thick 120mm Radiator. i'll get distiled water water and flush it a few times before use. anyway the colant i wanted to use wasn't in stock so i bought Dazmode protector and will use distiled water for the built so it's not like it wasn't planed. probably will have less issues then having a dye in my liquide anyway.

[MRDcanadian]

now that i have the radiator, i realized the the cut's in for my rad on the plastic top i ask to be made isn't correct . i'll have to go back to the plastic company monday and try to work something out. it seams it is very complicated to have the plastic mesured and cut out with the brakets to mount the rad on it so, i'll consider putting the radiator from the outside of my casse. anyway that will be it for the momment. will be going to see family todays and work on the case mod. i'll see what i'll figure out

[bungwirez]

welcome to the FUN in watercooling

[DoGMaN]

welcome to the FUN in watercooling

Agreed there is always something.

[brechan69]

here is some pictures of the stuff i already started to do like cable modding, fan painting and my video card block that i already have. I also modded the LED in the Enermax fans to be UV as the paint used is uv reactive.

current fans
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after my painting project
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Cable modding
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water-cooling block for Video Cards
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I thought I recognized the GPU waterblock; I just stumbled upon Liquid Extasy's website this afternoon, I like the fact that they're still making waterblocks for older NVidia and AMD video cards. Here's a link to their homepage http://www.liquid-extasy.de/
If you use Google Chrome, have the page translated using Google translate (unless you can understand German).