when you invite an animal as exotic as my oil cooled workstation into your life
you invite potential problems so while I was extremely disappointed to see that
spot had left an oil patch on my desk from a leak that formed near the seam in
the back when the system was roughly handled during our move I knew what I
was getting into when I built an oil cooled PC so let's make lemons out of
this life that lemonade something hm oil
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out the link in the video description to learn more step one is to identify the
cause of the leak be it a crack or a failed Bond at a joint between two
pieces of acrylic if it's a very very
slow leak like mine the temptation to just put a drip pan under it and call it
a day will be pretty strong but small drips can turn into gallons of oil all
over your floor very quickly with all of that pressure on them so I recommend
finding a helper putting your system on a plank that you don't care about and
moving it to a suitable place for repairs as soon as possible step two is
to prepare your workspace for the tank itself garbage bags are a cheap
spillproof cover material for the table and floor where you're working but I'd
recommend also creating a ridge around the outside of the area Andor pairing
them with cardboard or newspaper to absorb excess spilled oil in case it
drips off of the edges of your bags you'll also need a place to put the
internal computer components my system can hang off of the edge of a large
collection bin but you might need to come up with your own creative solution
here whatever it is you do make sure that you've got lots of garbage bags and
lots of paper towels on hand step three
lift the system out of the oil we gave
it a good 60 seconds for oil to drip from the video card power supply and
heat sink fins before picking it up and
resting it on a bin to collect the waste oil you can let it go for longer but if
your plan is to let all the oil come off this way then be prepared to wait for
literally days at this stage the is
ready to be emptied or if there's nothing wrong with your tank and you're
just performing some system maintenance removing stickers with failed adhesive
swapping out memory sticks Etc then you can do that now step four it's time to
prepare two basins one for rocks and
accessories and the other to capture the rest of the oil from the machine if
you're going to reuse the oil like me then it's a really good idea at this
point to clean out the container before pouring oil into it mineral oil is a
great cleaner and solvent in and of itself and will pick up all kinds of
dust and grime from anything that it touches so unless you want that junk
floating around in front of your video card do a really good job of this then
depending on what kind of container you're using a funnel might come in handy here as well something I really
wish we'd thought of when we originally built this machine so make sure you
clean that too if you're not planning to
reuse the oil please contact a local was management Depot or failing that ask an
automotive shop where they take their oil to be disposed of correctly step
five pouring the oil out and removing the Rocks when it comes time to dump the
oil I'd recommend changing into clothes that you don't care about assuming you
haven't already mineral oil can be very difficult to get out of clothing and
again if you haven't already I'd recommend removing any Jewelery and
throwing on some gloves because it is about to get messy now to be clear
mineral oil is isn't particularly harmful and is actually present in many
cosmetics and household items not to mention its usefulness as a laxative but
it's extremely slippery so getting it all over yourself isn't recommended
either find a musly armed young gentleman to help you avoid throwing out
your back while you pour out the oil into your collection Basin for step six
now that the Tank's empty we can get a better look at the damage while our
earlier inspection of the leak revealed that the oil was only seeping out at the
very bottom there are actually numerous hairline fractures in the adhesive
holding together The Joint at the back of our tank these were probably caused
by the vibration from transporting the system in the back of a U-Haul so I
forgot for a minute that I should be driving really really slow cuz things
are only somewhat secured in the back look
at this guy not letting me in what a
jackass so it's time to patch them up as as best we can with the repair guide
that was sent to me by John from Puget one wipe down the surfaces to be
repaired there's no need to get every last bit of oil off mineral is actually
what they use to clean the surfaces before welding but in our case because
there was no single obvious crack I
actually needed to clean it quite well to see what was going on two if you can
identify the crack drill a small hole like the smallest bit you have at the
edges of the crack to keep it from spreading any further for us however
because these micro cracks are actually between the overlapped pieces of the
main tank we're just going to have to rely on the wicking abilities of our
Weldon acrylic adhesive to fill in those gaps next well we apply the acrylic
adhesive with the application bottle and needle then leave that for an hour to
cure finally we apply this completely
not dangerous sounding stuff over the
cracked area the same way that you would apply cocking to uh a seal in your
bathroom then allow it 24 hours to cure
step seven is to come back to it the next day and just kind of visually
inspect our cocking along the bottom and up the seam in the middle make sure it
seems like it's evenly distributed and then once that's done all that's left is
the usual you know oil PC stuff so we
were able to put the Rocks back in uh spreading them out and then basically
just dumped the oil in doing this more
slowly would have helped me avoid plunging my ARM into the tank to
reposition the rocks and decorations but honestly I was kind of in a hurry to get
this video filmed by that point so YOLO
and then with that finished it was time to submerge the system itself carry it
back upstairs and power it on successfully even
yay worked so overall I'd say that with
a helper adequate time thanks to my laptop it's not a huge deal for my
desktop to be out of commission for a day for repairs and with a suitable workspace the
results were satisfactory the leak is now sealed and oil PC maintenance was
not as bad as I thought but it still doesn't change my original
recommendation at the end of the oil PC build log that most people should stay
away from it unless they want to go through this kind of a process every
time their PC stops running like a well-oiled
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