- Joined
- Oct 6, 2004
- Location
- Oklahoma City, Ok
Tell me a story about HighLighter Markers and....
Aight,
I am one of THOSE.
I like bling in my WCing setup. I want it to look and perform well. I also like it to stand out. For all the "Water in your system?!?! Nuts!" comments I get I like to occasionally show someone my systmem and hear the "Whoa! Cool!" comments to balance out the whole thing. I also like to play around with my system so bling definitely adds something more to play with.
Now onto the meat. I was reading on one of these threads about someone who had used a standard non-toxic Highlighter marker to color his coolant. I decided to give it a whirl outside of my system due to my disappointement with most UV additives I had tried. I poured 1 liter of distilled water into a container and then dipped the nib of the highlighter marker in it for about 30 seconds. I then placed a UV light next to the container and was amazed. The order of brightness is ballpark 10 times the brightness of the UV additives I have tried to date. In short it looks great. My question boils down to if anyone has tried it in their systems for any duration. Have you seen any negative results in either corrosion or cooling performance? If you have done this then how long? Have you checked your block for corrosion? According to Avery (the brand of highlighter I used) their non-toxic non-paint base highlighters basically only have pigment in a non-corrosive solvent (the person I spoke to did not know the solvent however) and felt it was completely safe to use on metals.
Anyone?
For $1 the 'performance' in terms of UV brightness so far outweighs anything I have seen from the other $5+ additives I am very interested assuming it wont hurt my pump or add corrosion.
*sidenote- I also added some Hyperlube to the Highlighter/distilled water to check its effect on the brightness, as far as I could tell it had no negative effects.
Aight,
I am one of THOSE.
I like bling in my WCing setup. I want it to look and perform well. I also like it to stand out. For all the "Water in your system?!?! Nuts!" comments I get I like to occasionally show someone my systmem and hear the "Whoa! Cool!" comments to balance out the whole thing. I also like to play around with my system so bling definitely adds something more to play with.
Now onto the meat. I was reading on one of these threads about someone who had used a standard non-toxic Highlighter marker to color his coolant. I decided to give it a whirl outside of my system due to my disappointement with most UV additives I had tried. I poured 1 liter of distilled water into a container and then dipped the nib of the highlighter marker in it for about 30 seconds. I then placed a UV light next to the container and was amazed. The order of brightness is ballpark 10 times the brightness of the UV additives I have tried to date. In short it looks great. My question boils down to if anyone has tried it in their systems for any duration. Have you seen any negative results in either corrosion or cooling performance? If you have done this then how long? Have you checked your block for corrosion? According to Avery (the brand of highlighter I used) their non-toxic non-paint base highlighters basically only have pigment in a non-corrosive solvent (the person I spoke to did not know the solvent however) and felt it was completely safe to use on metals.
Anyone?
For $1 the 'performance' in terms of UV brightness so far outweighs anything I have seen from the other $5+ additives I am very interested assuming it wont hurt my pump or add corrosion.
*sidenote- I also added some Hyperlube to the Highlighter/distilled water to check its effect on the brightness, as far as I could tell it had no negative effects.
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