Is it possible???

[HeatM1ser2k4]

I see UV dyes and other additives to add some color and add brilliance to your loop. Does anyone here have access to enough chemicals to try to make two additives(different colors) which can be added together in a loop thats create a "oil and water" effect without hurting the loop? The best way i can describe what i am thinking is and oil and water effect that will look like you have a lava lamp in your loop. I think it would be really cool to develop something like that, and I'm pretty sure it could be done, but can it be done in a way thats safe to your WC setup?

[pwnt by pat]

I belive the lavalamp oil/water effect happens because of varying densities. Having to push a higher density liquid would definately affect performance, especially parts in the bottem half of the loop where the more dense liquid would sit.

If you're talking about half and half colors, that may be a possibility althought I'd imagine it'd be more of a fade.

[johan851]

The lava lamp effect also wouldn't work because impellers have a tendency to churn everything up anyway. You could get a couple of different colored LEDs going on - those can produce a fade/alternate color effect when shining on different parts of the tubing.

[otogrim]

Yeah, you would probably end up having a bubbly looking liquid

[Ankun]

If you mixed two dyes you would just make new colors.. red + yellow = orange blue + red = purple, etc. etc.

You'd have a "fade" effect for about 10 seconds before you turned on your pump and all the liquid fully mixed together.

[billb]

I see UV dyes and other additives to add some color and add brilliance to your loop. Does anyone here have access to enough chemicals to try to make two additives(different colors) which can be added together in a loop thats create a "oil and water" effect without hurting the loop? The best way i can describe what i am thinking is and oil and water effect that will look like you have a lava lamp in your loop. I think it would be really cool to develop something like that, and I'm pretty sure it could be done, but can it be done in a way thats safe to your WC setup?There is a technique for mixing a long chain fatty acid (oleic?) and it's ester to create a kind of swirling pearlescent effect. But no matter what you do it will all be moving too fast to see any effect...and you'll decreace cooling also.

[HeatM1ser2k4]

:(
Oh well.

One other cool idea I had for an additive is sparkle dust.Not the sparkles that you use in kindergarten--this is a very fine dust.I figured the refractive aspect of the dust could give a rainbow effect with the right lighting.However, I figured the dust would eventually become residue that builds up on the inner tubing or other components.These UV dyes are just getting plain and boring,and I am eager to try something different--like water dye that changes the water color as the temperature changes.

[MVC]

:(
Oh well.

One other cool idea I had for an additive is sparkle dust.Not the sparkles that you use in kindergarten--this is a very fine dust.I figured the refractive aspect of the dust could give a rainbow effect with the right lighting.However, I figured the dust would eventually become residue that builds up on the inner tubing or other components.
The buildup, I think, wouldn't be so much as residue collecting in corners but as particulate matter that would block the jets on blocks. But, even more importantly, it would act like sandpaper eating away at your tubing--that's got to be a "bad thing" long term :).

I haven't heard of anything that would do what you want, but I'm not chemist so maybe there is a way to do it.... It would be cool even if it didn't have a "long" lifespan!

[oxid]

if you find two fluids that are hydrophilic but phobic to each other, it should work,
HOWEVER, the pump will turn some sort of soup out of it.
the dust idea may work. another alternative is take 1/2" tubing and put 1/4" tubing INSIDE it, sealed on both ends and fill it with something coloured.

[Sneaky]

These UV dyes are just getting plain and boring,and I am eager to try something different--like water dye that changes the water color as the temperature changes.

you could try getting UV tubing (red, green, or blue) and then using a different color UV dye inside it - it gives it a really cool looking 2-tone effect under UV light (i saw one guy do it with blue tubing & red dye once)

but otherwise we're kinda limited to the choice of additives :shrug:

[johan851]

the dust idea may work. another alternative is take 1/2" tubing and put 1/4" tubing INSIDE it, sealed on both ends and fill it with something coloured.
You'd have to use bigger than 1/2", I think, for it not to be terribly restrictive. Plus, trying to pump the stuff may prove difficult...