WHEW!!! Escaped a BIG Boo Boo

[S_I_N]

Well tonight I decided it was time to flush and refill my loop. I'm moving in a couple weeks (just to a larger place) and not knowing when I'd have time or room to do it I thought tonight was perfect. All was going according to plans. Plan was to cut the top on the optical bay on my Switch for the 3rd fan to have more air while i was flushing. I drained the rads and was taking the top off to make the cut when my hose popped off and proceeded to rain in my mobo. I was horrified lol. I quickly removed the board and blew it off with air man there was alot more water on it than I thought. The pci-e slots were soaked as was the cmos battery. Anyway Kept spraying til i saw no more water moving and set 4 140mm fans blowing on it. Well good news is she lives and is back up and running as before With slightly cooler temps

 

[Scoob]

Phew! Disaster averted!

Glad your story had a happy ending! Have been building my loop the past couple of days and such things were on my mind constantly. Luckily no major leaks - though I did have "fun" after doing my leak tests before I remembered to fit the two drain points I'd prepared...

Good luck with the move.

Scoob.

 

[S_I_N]

Thanks yeah I need to put one in (drain port and I know where I can do it nicely. For now to drain I remove cpu block and pull hose drain upper rad then remove lower rad and remove hose. and that gets 80-90% of the water out. But I was going to have to reroute the hoses for the upper rad as putting the 3rd fan on it caused a minor kink in my tubing plus 90's dont work well with a fan in that spot lol. I put in straight barbs and I was super lucky that the hole I cut for the fan to have more air was positioned just right for the hoses to pass thru as well.

 

[Excalabur50]

Mate talk about lucky you almost gave me a heart attack just reading about it TBH makes me glad im on air

 

[Scoob]

Cool. I'm actually quite pleased with my drain solution...the one I noticed I'd forgotten to implement when I first tried to drain the loop...doh!

Basically my GPU's use parallel flow so water comes in from the top left, down to GPU 1, GPU2 then, effectively, back up through GPU 1 and into the CPU and out. I put my drain in the bottom of GPU 2 using one of the (should be) plugged ports. It's absolutely the lowest point so draining should be very easy. I basically have a 90 deg rotary compression on the bottom of the card, a short bit of hose and a bung in the end so I can easily swing it out of the case to drain.

On my external rad (in a chassis) the return hose is at the lowest point so I just popped a T-piece in their with it's 3rd hole bunged. No drain pipe on this one as not really room. Though as the rad chassis is on QDCs from the PC I can easily move the whole assembly onto my desk and drain from there.

Must pop up my build log...frustratingly my camera isn't the best so I'm missing some shots of the build process...

Scoob.

 

[yassarikhan786]

Glad nothing got ruined S_I_N

 

[OcSurfer]

nice save bud, im dreading having to empty my loop for new rads and blocks to go in

 

[VengeanceUK]

so basically, not only were you cpu and gpu watercooled, but the whole mobo was nearly water cooled (or should that be water killed).

glad disaster was avoided though

 

[S_I_N]

so basically, not only were you cpu and gpu watercooled, but the whole mobo was nearly water cooled (or should that be water killed).

glad disaster was avoided though

lmao I can actually laugh at that cause disaster was avoided. I'm still shocked that my tubes came undone lol. There is a hole in the top plate that the rad is bolted to I had routed one up thru the hole and wedged the other under it to avoid this happening. but I guess with the turning of the rig around to get to the other sides screws they loosened up and as soon as i popped the top off they sprang loose. I think this was probably the longest I have ever flushed the rads lol. Waiting for what I felt was hopefully long enough with air blowing on the board to dry it. This whole process started about 10pm and I fired it up about 6am. So about 5 hours of flushing the rads while the board dried. Probably wouldn't of flushed that long but I needed the time and Mayhem's dyes are potent stuff lol. I flushed the rads before when I switched to the white tubing and got alot of blue out. I was shocked to see the water vinegar mix I use to flush come out with so much more blue. I ran a second flush and was still getting some out. LOL Vinegar is good for flushing out the crap in a rad but I always do 2-3 just DI water flushes after that.

 

[Vicey]

Looks like you took water cooling to the next level.

 

[p1ngman1969]

nice escape, saved you a few quid as well