Food dye in water?

[JN]

Guys,

I'm trying to find a way of dying my water red. Doesnt need to be UV reactive as i have no UV cathodes.

Do you fink food dye would be ok? or is it likely to start growing into something?

 

[Ham]

I would have thought it would be ok.

Try sticking some in a pot, maybe with a bit of copper and tec-protect and leaving it a day or two?

Edit: Im actualy going to do this with a bit of copper pipe i have lying around...

 

[NickS]

I wouldn't. It might gunk up stuff. Try google / searchin other places?

 

[Ham]

Food colouring is not atall gooey.

Check back in a day or two

 

[WC Annihilus]

I think I read up somewhere on XS that it is all right. Don't really remember though

 

[CopperCAT]

What about some red ink? I tried blue ink in my setup before for a short while and it colored my tubes too

 

[NoL]

Inks will stain, food coloring will seperate actually as well as cling to a magnetic pumps bearing in my experience.

 

[NickS]

Regardless of what you use, the tubing will stain. Get some Toyota engine coolant (antifreeze), it's red. A lot of people use it.

 

[NoL]

Personally I run distilled water with a bit of UV green dye from frozencpu.com in it. I checked the pump and tubing and they are still clear. Checked again last weekend, still clear. The dye it seems is inert? Perfect and cheap.

 

[FragTek]

Regardless of what you use, the tubing will stain. Get some Toyota engine coolant (antifreeze), it's red. A lot of people use it.

Yup, me likes this idea. I used to use GM Dexcool because it was orange, and it worked great!

 

[NoL]

Anything with a nice blue? I like anti-freeze personally unless you've got teflon tape in your loop. Which reacts with anti-freeze generally.

 

[Toxcity]

Any thing would work if it doesn't react with the solution or dye the pipes and components

 

[NoL]

Well even if it dy's its still good, only concern ever really is galvanic corrosion (mixing metals in a loop really)

 

[JN]

What would be really cool is to have 2 coloured liquids that don't mix inside your loop. I guess they'd have to be some form of oil.

 

[NoL]

And oil is both hard to pump and more often then not, a bad conductor of heat as compared to distilled water. It would be sweet though.

 

[JN]

And oil is both hard to pump and more often then not, a bad conductor of heat as compared to distilled water. It would be sweet though.

ye just for pure bling - have red and green oils going around your loop looking like a lava lamp

 

[llwyd]

Castor Oil is meant to be good i think.... or vegetable oil or something like that. what about blood?

 

[JN]

Castor Oil is meant to be good i think.... or vegetable oil or something like that. what about blood?

Then i could truly say i'd put "blood and sweat" into building my rig

 

[NoL]

Hahahahah a blood sacrifice to the overclocking gods I beleive has already been attempted.

 

[Rastalovich]

lol ya human virgin blood!

But if u can`t find a virgin, u could ask a butcher for a bottle full, even tho he`d look strangely at u >.<

I would imagine blood to go brown or black as it decays tho.