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At some point I will upgrade to hard acrylic. However, I don't know the best way to put in a drain port for my setup. I was thinking of leaving one of my runs(short run from res to rad) with a quick disconnect and a regular tube so that I could easily drain it when needed, but I think this will look wrong. What do you guys think?
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Re: Types of Drain ports with Hard Acrylic
2014/09/07 14:13:15
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Think I may have an idea I'm actually looking to get hard acrylic as well and think I have a solution. Somewhere near where a tube can be hidden, use something like THIS to make a T split in the line, with two rigid fittings and the last one a compression fitting for flexible tube, cap the end of the flexible tube and tuck it away when in normal use, but you can pull it out and uncap it to drain.
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Re: Types of Drain ports with Hard Acrylic
2014/09/07 15:19:29
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very nice. This gives me some direction. thank you!!
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Re: Types of Drain ports with Hard Acrylic
2014/09/12 18:28:36
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I too am trying to figure out the drain in the build I am getting ready to start. I am going to use the Primochill compression tubes with D5 pumps (.x2) It looks as if there is an inlet for the pump on the right side, I am thinking of putting it there. Are you going to stick with your current res when you switch to hardline?
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Re: Types of Drain ports with Hard Acrylic
2014/09/12 19:08:47
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Re: Types of Drain ports with Hard Acrylic
2014/09/12 19:53:54
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Re: Types of Drain ports with Hard Acrylic
2014/09/12 21:33:43
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I will keep my current bay res/pump and then put a 3 or 4 way to a quick disconnect. When I need to drain it I will connect the QD and drain away. My second loop will have a UT-60 res by aqua cool. It has several ports on the res, so I can just use one for another QD to drain that loop
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Re: Types of Drain ports with Hard Acrylic
2014/11/10 00:11:56
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I know this is really late, but I wanted to share. I finally, after a year of holding onto my black QD3's, used them in my 5960x setup for testing everything out. I ran 2 XSPC radiators, 3* QD3 sets, a Koolance Pump, and Primochill Advanced LRT Tubing.. For liquids, I used Distilled water. It was a very temporary loop, so I did not see the point of pouring in biocides or throwing in kill coils, or anything like that. The rest of the loop is in perfect condition. No Leeching of the tube, not marks on the other fittings, waterblocks look great... but I will not buy another painted fitting from Koolance. I am going to try to send them back and see if they will switch them out for the unpainted version of the QD3.
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Re: Types of Drain ports with Hard Acrylic
2014/11/10 03:51:12
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Scarlet-Tech I know this is really late, but I wanted to share. I finally, after a year of holding onto my black QD3's, used them in my 5960x setup for testing everything out. I ran 2 XSPC radiators, 6 QD3 sets, a Koolance Pump, and Primochill Advanced LRT Tubing.. For liquids, I used Distilled water. It was a very temporary loop, so I did not see the point of pouring in biocides or throwing in kill coils, or anything like that. The rest of the loop is in perfect condition. No Leeching of the tube, not marks on the other fittings, waterblocks look great... but I will not buy another painted fitting from Koolance. I am going to try to send them back and see if they will switch them out for the unpainted version of the QD3.
Just going to say, I had the same thing happen with the silver disconnects. Was using distilled and a silver kill coil, after about 6-8 months when I flushed the loop the first time I noticed the same thing. Personally I have never really had much luck with there stuff but many seem to have. Since its not affecting any of my other blocks as well I'm not to sure how concerned I should be.
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Re: Types of Drain ports with Hard Acrylic
2014/11/10 05:00:10
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dave851 Just going to say, I had the same thing happen with the silver disconnects. Was using distilled and a silver kill coil, after about 6-8 months when I flushed the loop the first time I noticed the same thing. Personally I have never really had much luck with there stuff but many seem to have. Since its not affecting any of my other blocks as well I'm not to sure how concerned I should be.
If it isn't effecting anything, I doubt it is a problem. The part that gets me... Mine were used for less that 7 days. That isn't total.. I put them in for the very first time, less than 7 days ago and they had never been out of the packaging before that. I haven't had good luck at all with koolance. I am thinking about one of their CPU waterblocks, but after 3 bad reservoirs that all leak, and RMAing them, one of the tops didn't attach to the reservoir at all, and now all of these being bad after minimal use, I am not too sure about buying something else.
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Re: Types of Drain ports with Hard Acrylic
2014/11/10 06:35:32
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I use only unpainted version of the QD3, but users did ask for Black.
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Re: Types of Drain ports with Hard Acrylic
2014/11/10 09:02:01
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NEVER IN MY LIFE will I pay for another koolance product. That company can burn. They just responded that since I didn't use koolance fluids, and had used only distilled water, that they won't cover the fittings. Never again. Multiple defective reservoirs, messed up pump tops, and now busted fittings, and they put them blame on me for that? Nope, everything I own from them is going in the trash. I have two still in the wrappers. dylan from Koolance says that if I use Koolance specific fluids, they will never corrode. I am going to waste the $15 and shipping to find out. I will not purchase any other items from them again though. That is a huge load of garbage from them. I regret ever buying anything from them.
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Re: Types of Drain ports with Hard Acrylic
2014/11/10 09:43:50
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Scarlet-Tech NEVER IN MY LIFE will I pay for another koolance product. That company can burn. They just responded that since I didn't use koolance fluids, and had used only distilled water, that they won't cover the fittings. Never again. Multiple defective reservoirs, messed up pump tops, and now busted fittings, and they put them blame on me for that? Nope, everything I own from them is going in the trash.
I have two still in the wrappers. dylan from Koolance says that if I use Koolance specific fluids, they will never corrode. I am going to waste the $15 and shipping to find out. I will not purchase any other items from them again though. That is a huge load of garbage from them. I regret ever buying anything from them.
Sorry to here that, I do use only their LIQ-702 coolants as it states it on their site. It also may be that other Web Sites that sale Koolance's products are not telling users. I only Buy Direct from Koolance's Web Site. Koolance's product warranty does not cover the use of 3rd-party coolants, coolant additives, or corrosion. Koolance LIQ-702 or LIQ-705 coolants are strongly recommended to help avoid issues with mixed metals or biological growth. Additionally, do not use aluminum with bare (unplated) copper or bare (unplated) brass in the same system. Do not use silver with nickel in the same system.
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Re: Types of Drain ports with Hard Acrylic
2014/11/10 11:31:50
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You know, I wonder if there's anything special in there coolant anyway. Personally I just can't justify the cost of brand name coolant unless its for a dyed coolant. I have had some good luck with them for parts like mounting hardware and smaller things but I won't be buying anything expensive from them because I don't agree with the if you don't use our coolant we will void your warranty deal. I mean, its not like I'm pouring acid in my loop so why on earth would distilled water that works just fine with everything else be bad for there products. If they corrode that easily, I don't want them in my loop anyway.
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