Aquarium Mineral Oil PC Maintenance Vlog
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,757 words · ~8 min read
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when you invite an animal as exotic as my oil cooled workstation into your life
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you invite potential problems so while I was extremely disappointed to see that
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spot had left an oil patch on my desk from a leak that formed near the seam in
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the back when the system was roughly handled during our move I knew what I
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was getting into when I built an oil cooled PC so let's make lemons out of
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this life that lemonade something hm oil
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cooled rig maintenance video
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time the master case 5 by Cooler Master gives you the freedom to truly make your
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midtower PC case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories check
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out the link in the video description to learn more step one is to identify the
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cause of the leak be it a crack or a failed Bond at a joint between two
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pieces of acrylic if it's a very very
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slow leak like mine the temptation to just put a drip pan under it and call it
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a day will be pretty strong but small drips can turn into gallons of oil all
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over your floor very quickly with all of that pressure on them so I recommend
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finding a helper putting your system on a plank that you don't care about and
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moving it to a suitable place for repairs as soon as possible step two is
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to prepare your workspace for the tank itself garbage bags are a cheap
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spillproof cover material for the table and floor where you're working but I'd
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recommend also creating a ridge around the outside of the area Andor pairing
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them with cardboard or newspaper to absorb excess spilled oil in case it
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drips off of the edges of your bags you'll also need a place to put the
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internal computer components my system can hang off of the edge of a large
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collection bin but you might need to come up with your own creative solution
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here whatever it is you do make sure that you've got lots of garbage bags and
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lots of paper towels on hand step three
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lift the system out of the oil we gave
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it a good 60 seconds for oil to drip from the video card power supply and
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heat sink fins before picking it up and
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resting it on a bin to collect the waste oil you can let it go for longer but if
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your plan is to let all the oil come off this way then be prepared to wait for
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literally days at this stage the is
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ready to be emptied or if there's nothing wrong with your tank and you're
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just performing some system maintenance removing stickers with failed adhesive
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swapping out memory sticks Etc then you can do that now step four it's time to
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prepare two basins one for rocks and
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accessories and the other to capture the rest of the oil from the machine if
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you're going to reuse the oil like me then it's a really good idea at this
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point to clean out the container before pouring oil into it mineral oil is a
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great cleaner and solvent in and of itself and will pick up all kinds of
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dust and grime from anything that it touches so unless you want that junk
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floating around in front of your video card do a really good job of this then
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depending on what kind of container you're using a funnel might come in handy here as well something I really
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wish we'd thought of when we originally built this machine so make sure you
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clean that too if you're not planning to
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reuse the oil please contact a local was management Depot or failing that ask an
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automotive shop where they take their oil to be disposed of correctly step
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five pouring the oil out and removing the Rocks when it comes time to dump the
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oil I'd recommend changing into clothes that you don't care about assuming you
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haven't already mineral oil can be very difficult to get out of clothing and
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again if you haven't already I'd recommend removing any Jewelery and
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throwing on some gloves because it is about to get messy now to be clear
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mineral oil is isn't particularly harmful and is actually present in many
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cosmetics and household items not to mention its usefulness as a laxative but
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it's extremely slippery so getting it all over yourself isn't recommended
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either find a musly armed young gentleman to help you avoid throwing out
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your back while you pour out the oil into your collection Basin for step six
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now that the Tank's empty we can get a better look at the damage while our
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earlier inspection of the leak revealed that the oil was only seeping out at the
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very bottom there are actually numerous hairline fractures in the adhesive
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holding together The Joint at the back of our tank these were probably caused
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by the vibration from transporting the system in the back of a U-Haul so I
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forgot for a minute that I should be driving really really slow cuz things
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are only somewhat secured in the back look
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at this guy not letting me in what a
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jackass so it's time to patch them up as as best we can with the repair guide
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that was sent to me by John from Puget one wipe down the surfaces to be
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repaired there's no need to get every last bit of oil off mineral is actually
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what they use to clean the surfaces before welding but in our case because
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there was no single obvious crack I
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actually needed to clean it quite well to see what was going on two if you can
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identify the crack drill a small hole like the smallest bit you have at the
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edges of the crack to keep it from spreading any further for us however
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because these micro cracks are actually between the overlapped pieces of the
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main tank we're just going to have to rely on the wicking abilities of our
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Weldon acrylic adhesive to fill in those gaps next well we apply the acrylic
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adhesive with the application bottle and needle then leave that for an hour to
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cure finally we apply this completely
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not dangerous sounding stuff over the
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cracked area the same way that you would apply cocking to uh a seal in your
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bathroom then allow it 24 hours to cure
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step seven is to come back to it the next day and just kind of visually
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inspect our cocking along the bottom and up the seam in the middle make sure it
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seems like it's evenly distributed and then once that's done all that's left is
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the usual you know oil PC stuff so we
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were able to put the Rocks back in uh spreading them out and then basically
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just dumped the oil in doing this more
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slowly would have helped me avoid plunging my ARM into the tank to
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reposition the rocks and decorations but honestly I was kind of in a hurry to get
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this video filmed by that point so YOLO
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and then with that finished it was time to submerge the system itself carry it
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back upstairs and power it on successfully even
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yay worked so overall I'd say that with
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a helper adequate time thanks to my laptop it's not a huge deal for my
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desktop to be out of commission for a day for repairs and with a suitable workspace the
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results were satisfactory the leak is now sealed and oil PC maintenance was
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not as bad as I thought but it still doesn't change my original
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recommendation at the end of the oil PC build log that most people should stay
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away from it unless they want to go through this kind of a process every
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time their PC stops running like a well-oiled
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