View Single Post
Unread 10-25-2006, 02:34 PM   #8
ibmkg
Cooling Savant
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: USA
Posts: 129
Re: Cutting Oil as a coolant

I have tested the rig for a week now. No problems found as of yet. I am going to post decent pics along with current block's diagram in a day or two, after when I resolve a few minor issues.

Also, instruct me how to test this rig's performance. I have no clue where to start.

As for now what I did is: took a butane torch and heated the block with blue flame for few mins. In just 5mins there was so much condensation that I had to abort the test as water kept coming in the way. It was like a mini waterfall!

The fan was running on 5 volts and the reservoir temperature had slightly risen. I did not had a temperature gauge at that instance but before the butane heating, the reservoir was 'cool' and after 5 mins heating, ‘normal' and it remained constant. Thanks to good gifted temperature gauge (hand).

One more thing, I have noticed a green layer of liquid on top of the cutting oil. This is also present near the tips of the barbs. Algae?

clocker I do not understand your signature message
ibmkg is offline   Reply With Quote