I was getting ready to put together my water rebuild today, and one of the components was still in storage. So I got it out of the closet, and as I picked it up I heard *slosh slosh*. WTF? I left some water in this thing after I cleaned it out??
Disassembled the thing, and everything in the bottom two inches was covered in a biologically based goop. *sigh* OK, start cleaning the goo and wonder if I can really get enough of it gone easily to call it sterile for the new loop build.
Then I noticed that the paint was failing. The Reserator v2 is covered entirely, inside and out, with black paint. It's one of the reasons I didn't fear using it much. As long as the paint was intact, there was no danger of galvanic corrosion, and I used corrosion inhibitors just in case anyway. Well, the paint is bubbling in spots all throughout the inside of the aluminum cylinder, and outright peeling on the base parts that come in contact with fluid.
Algae can be dealt with and prevented. I can protect against galvanic corrosion. Failing paint though? That would mean I'd need to strip all the paint off the inside of the thing, and repaint it.
Nope, not happening. The big black Reserator, the showpiece of my system, is now retired. "Whoa, what's that??" never got old when people saw it. Now I'll have to come up with a new and inexpensive reservoir system really quickly. I'm done spending money on this project, so even a microres is probably out of the question.
I'm sad. Conundrum is probably quietly happy that another aluminum water cooling part has fallen out of use.
I'll probably do a T-line. I need to go read up on how to do one properly. The "leg" of the T needs face upwards when bleeding to catch the air bubbles, right? And it needs to be in the line that leads directly to the pump in the loop? Any other 'hot tips' for setting up a t-line correctly?
Disassembled the thing, and everything in the bottom two inches was covered in a biologically based goop. *sigh* OK, start cleaning the goo and wonder if I can really get enough of it gone easily to call it sterile for the new loop build.
Then I noticed that the paint was failing. The Reserator v2 is covered entirely, inside and out, with black paint. It's one of the reasons I didn't fear using it much. As long as the paint was intact, there was no danger of galvanic corrosion, and I used corrosion inhibitors just in case anyway. Well, the paint is bubbling in spots all throughout the inside of the aluminum cylinder, and outright peeling on the base parts that come in contact with fluid.
Algae can be dealt with and prevented. I can protect against galvanic corrosion. Failing paint though? That would mean I'd need to strip all the paint off the inside of the thing, and repaint it.
Nope, not happening. The big black Reserator, the showpiece of my system, is now retired. "Whoa, what's that??" never got old when people saw it. Now I'll have to come up with a new and inexpensive reservoir system really quickly. I'm done spending money on this project, so even a microres is probably out of the question.
I'm sad. Conundrum is probably quietly happy that another aluminum water cooling part has fallen out of use.
I'll probably do a T-line. I need to go read up on how to do one properly. The "leg" of the T needs face upwards when bleeding to catch the air bubbles, right? And it needs to be in the line that leads directly to the pump in the loop? Any other 'hot tips' for setting up a t-line correctly?
