additives are nasty

[TurboBoost]

Additives are nasty...like water wetter or antifreeze or even windshield washer fluid.

Is there anything I can do with my dimineralized water that is not so toxic...?

Water wetter turns the water white and worse yet, makes it smell bad.
And if it leaves a nasty residue where ever it drips..

[Surreal]

Yeah I have that problem with WW as well.... I a two year old system was heavly gunked over... My solution was to drain, refilled with 60% water / 40% "DRAINO". After a while I noticed the gunk slowing coming off. When you sqeeze the tubing the area which changes shape the gunk flows right off. I was going to run it for a week and let the gunk flow off by itself but i got impatient so i sqweezed all the tubing and cleaned it right up. BTW I am using clearflex. Now I flushed it out twice with tap water and in a few min i am going to flush it out with distilled water then refill with distilled water and a small (teaspoon) amount of "DRAINO". The only problem that it has bleach in it and I hear bleach will eat through plastics and rubber......? I am not too worried about loosing heat transfer or capacity considering I have a 120W TEC and duel temperature monitors. (coldplate, water temperature)
It would of been much easier just to replace the small amout of tubing but I wanted to remove the gunk in the blocks, pump, and rad to prevent as much as i can of contamination of the new water.

LMK what you think...

[Big_Baller]

I have used CLR in my setup to flush it out. Using some Hy-per lube is not smelly for better performance. I currnetly am using the stuff from dtek and it dosn't smell. additives rock.

[Surreal]

What is CLR?
What is the stuff you are using from dtek?

thx

[ZachM]

CLR = Calcium Lime and Rust

It's a cleaning product made specifically to remove calcium, lime, and rust deposits.

About bleach, I'm pretty sure it's really harsh on aluminum. Eats it away. I wouldn't use Draino. If you want to keep stuff from growing in your system get some bateriostat made for humidifiers.

[Korndog]

rubbing alchol works good too.

[Surreal]

alchol cracks lexan?

[Froz]

i've used dteks additive as well. it looks yellow in the bottle but didn't change my system color. did improve my temps. smells not the greatest but i once it's in you wont' be smelling it again or anything.

[Ri0]

I use the swiftech hydryx. It is just about perfect.

I absolutely hate Water Wetter, might as well put detergent in your system, because that is what it basically is.