Whole Room Water Cooling Part 5a - Trouble is Brewing in the Whole Room Loop...
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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2,308 words · ~11 min read
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there's like a little what is that so the second we tried to shoot day five we
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hit a snag the problem is that once again we
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think the issue is our wireless kit and
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uh it's not we killed yet another lav
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presumably from having them clipped to my waist and then having tension on them
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here because the issue is that and we' we've actually killed one of these
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before too one of these Sennheiser ones and then we just killed our countrymen
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the issue is that the cables reinforced here and then they just break here so it
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feels like the higher you go and reinforce it you're just going to break
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it there so I don't know what the solution is it's
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ridiculous uh just just add tape to the entirety of the cable so that it's just
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one solid line I have no idea what this is mate no it's not from mate apparently
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mate bought me another another Blu-ray though oh this is a notebook 15-in
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gaming notebook and it's not broken it's true
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this is the whole room water cooling
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project this is
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crazy how long has it been since we've actually worked on this mess 4 months
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something like that so uh we are finally back at it and finishing the whole room
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water cooling Loop is going to have some challenges that we didn't have the first
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time around because now we have to figure out how to finish people's
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systems like I don't even have have the I I I don't even have the like the the
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tubing finished for some people's systems without interrupting them
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working or at least pretending to be
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working they're actually eating we are at putting the other ends of the quick
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disconnects onto the computers because in order to work on the loop we need to
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have people's systems running disconnected disconnected all right
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I would never recommend filling the water cooling Loop of a system that's
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running while it's running I believe my red is already
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full and uh let's find out if my hot
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swap system works or not I would
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recommend saving your work oh well this is smarter than what I was
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doing I just filled the rad with the whole room system uh-huh right that's
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way better because now okay well right now your system is in trouble but uh-huh
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um so now we don't have to worry about bleeding really nervous oops okay well
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we'll go around and we'll do the CPU swaps later I
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guess are we short of CPU Taran can I find out what CPU you
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have uh very quickly okay
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okay I'm going to try and do this right this time how are your temps
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doing cuz your water is not moving right
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now uh it does seem to be going up
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pretty quickly and you are swapped off how's it
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look now it's going up it's going up yep
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holy crap uh okay just SEC just sec
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everything's okay oh
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it's no it's still going I know you're not hooked up to anything right
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now okay we need coolant
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float are we going down yeah wow like
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20° yep good um so your pump is it on
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your pump doesn't seem to be doing anything all right then so the good the
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positive takeaway here is that the whole room pump is working
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is that plugged in I thought
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so but we're going to double
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check the pump is connected to the pump
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bone the pump bonees connected to the
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case bone the case Bone's connected to
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nothing so we got to plug in your pump you know what we probably pulled it out
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during the power supply swap yeah never plug it back probably didn't need to
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plug it back in or felt like we didn't need to plug it back in no I'm pretty
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sure we just forgot well I like to give
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people the benefit of the doubt especially when they're me okay oh yours
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already has fittings on it yeah I put them on there when I uh felt like it no
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you didn't uh what color tubing is that
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supposed to be this clear there's definitely a lot of
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bubbles in the loop at the moment if it's just that
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tubing getting all grossed out or if
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it's the blocks yeah the blocks seem fine it's
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just ugly ugly coolant like it's you can actually
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see um so just just to keep in mind there
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are things on top of this PC oh well there probably aren't anymore no do you
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making no weird noise um no that's probably there air in
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your block now because we're messing around with the loop ble it's probably
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okay but all my screens went blue they did no oh my God why do I ever listen to
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you one day I'm going to tell you something legitimate and you're going to
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be like oh hilarious and then and you're going to die you're going to lose like
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your left pinky or something well at least just my left
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pinky okay for the first time since we
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set it up the whole room water cooling system is off I mean completely off the
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fans have been off since about the first week so after all that work to have all
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the systems hooked up to a whole room water cooling system we have
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successfully disconnected them all yay clap clap clap clap clap clap
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but there's a purpose there's a purpose because
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this is our new pump which we will
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actually be installing in addition to our existing pump now I ordered or a 2md
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QSC I ordered a matching one for our other one they actually sent me a 3 MD
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QSC so this one's slightly more powerful something I didn't really want um so I
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don't know I I I I I think that's not really recommended for serial pump
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operation but we don't really have much of a choice at this point so uh this one
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has slightly higher head pressure as well as a slightly higher flow rate than
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the other one so off we go
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so one issue that we've had uh is that
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one of the fittings on this pump has actually been leaking see right
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here there's uh yeah there's definitely
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a leak there so we've actually had some corrosion of the base and
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uh it's been kind of nasty this is our anti vibration pad that makes it
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slightly less loud all right so that means we have to figure out how to close
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off these now I have one idea for one
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side like is this going to work what if I just mush
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it locking swivel
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jaw like this thing is stuck to the
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other
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one what heck
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it doesn't move there you go yay thought I was an
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idiot I mean I might still be an idiot what I'm about to do with it is
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idiotic so I'm trying to Mush the uh
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mush the tubing here water will Rush from this
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opening on both on both ends and I don't
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know how much I'll be able to do to stop it here wait no it should be fine
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because in theory I've blocked them right so what I need to do is plan to do
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this one first cuz I suspect this one is less likely to leak as much so I want to
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pull this off how much pressure is in there I
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don't know it's a mystery it worked wow okay
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let's find out uh let's find out if this
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is going to hold only one way to know for
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sure hippity Boop done it looks like
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there's a little bit of corrosion on this uh fitting right here but it might
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not be a big deal there is definitely some crap in here that is that is an
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extremely that is an extremely bad thing
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so that's what's staining the inside of the
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tubing I think it's coming from here
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which could be a very very bad thing steel Reservoir should be fine if you
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have if you're running basically we're just running Automotive antifreeze in
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here but it looks like something about it is not
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working like it's not obviously just ol
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of sediment I wonder if all that Gunk
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settled reasonably well cuz we didn't notice any build up on the blocks either
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which is good cuz it means it won't affect cooling performance but um I'd
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still like to have things cleaner than that if it can be so here are the
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floaties I'm talking about and how they're kind of
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mushy which leads me to believe that there's some kind of life form as
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opposed to just being um like rust build up also kind of
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greasy but then that could just be the SE I don't know sea
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monkeys yeah not what we were trying to do here what this means now is that we
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either have to accept that there's stuff growing in our Loop
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and write off all the gear that's
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attached to it as contaminated until it's cleaned or we have to take
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everything apart replace all the tubing clean all the blocks and replace this
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Reservoir in order to start fresh so uh given that we're moving in 2
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months we are going to go for the temporary
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solution um which is flush the res flush
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the loop um go much much heavier on the on
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the antifreeze this time and uh and and
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kind of live with it for another couple months before we
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move experience silent performance with the new Cooler Master silencio 652 s
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minimalist design maximum compatibility click now to learn more I don't know if
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our hose still works
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this kind of fell okay well the stuff
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that's on the lip here see that's funny it seems kind of
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greasy you know I wonder if it I Wonder Maybe I'm Wrong maybe it's
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not maybe it's not living maybe it's just something left over in here from
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manufacturing well we didn't have a lot of options in terms of reservoirs but I
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can see we made the wrong choice
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oh groy that doesn't look like a coating
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and it's like it's all over the the upper walls as well and I remember
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looking into it like there was nothing on there before but I'm not sure what we managed
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to introduced to the system that grows in an antifreeze water mixture
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maybe some of the viewers will have some insight they all appear to be experts on
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this kind of project anyway like coming into today I was
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thinking we might need some kind of a filter in line or something something
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like that but this is clearly just
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beyond filtration putting this back in the loop
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doesn't seem to be an option
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so what I think we're going to do
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as stupid as this is um is we're going
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to leave the loop open for now with like
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buckets yep we're going bucket water
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cooling um because I don't want to especially now that I've Disturbed
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whatever's in here we're going to get chunks going through the loop and if one
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of those chunks ends up in a water block
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the cooling performance of that system is hooped I don't think that's happened
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yet I don't have a reason to believe that's happened yet looking at the temperatures of people's
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systems so uh we can't we can't risk that happening so then what we'll need
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to do is we'll need to get a replacement reservoir for when we move and um when we move we will have to
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we'll have to do something we'll have to clean out the system we'll have to clean out the tubing and blocks and start
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fresh the radiators are going to be a real problem we may need to just replace
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them so while at took a break to uh copy
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footage I figured I'd get our pumps
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prepped it turns out the reason it was leaking was way back when I uh when I
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initially used this pump I apparently didn't know what Teflon tape was because
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I apparently didn't use it so that would be why that fitting was leaking um I
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also spent a little bit of time Googling and while an while Automotive antifreeze
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does indeed contain an anti-corrosive which is good that's what I was really
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concerned about what it does not contain and I had I guess assumed it contains is
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a biocal agent so that is why our Loop
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is full of what is now definitely organic matter not only have no flux I I
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have no solder I I do have to go to Home Depot you probably have a sandbag on
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your ladder like my Vol but the sound means it's not working best not to
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breath that in