Glad I put a filter in front of my cascade

pelikan

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I changed my water today and checked the little micro screen filter that's in front of the cascade in my loop. There was some tan colored gooey stuff on it, covering maybe 1/3 of it. I don't know what it was. It would have clogged the cascade for sure.
I was using just distilled water. This time I put some antifreeze in there too. Maybe I won't get tan gooey stuff.

 

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eww.. pics?

 

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Sorry, but you will be spared from the horror. No camera...

 

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lol, well, with antifreeze u shouldn't have that problem.
never found anything in my channels from day one (about 3 years ago) when i first stated watercooling

 

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Sounds nasty.. good think you checked that out.

 

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Just curious, what kind of filter are you using? I've been looking for a good one ever since I found a bunch of crap in my WW channels, would hate to see what it would have done to a Cascade.

 

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The filter is designed for garden drip systems. It's just a very fine metal screen. You can screw threaded barbs into either end. I think it cost like $5.

 

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You can go to a boat surplus shop and buy a shurflo 1/2 strainer like this one i use https://www.home.no/jsa/shurflo strainer.jpg costed me 10 usd or something like that.

 

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pelikan

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That's nice, with the barbs built in. Are they very restrictive? My screen filter has some restriction, but not much.

 

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pelikan said:

I was using just distilled water.

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Theres the source of what your filter was catching. Probably small bits of rust or corrosion

 

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Not corrosion, because my loop is all copper and my pump has stainless steel internals. And it wasn't rust because it was tan colored and gooey. I think it was some kind of algae or other organic growth.

 

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Yes it has some restriction but by MCP600 can cope with it, depends on your pump.