Weirdest thing ever! (Eheim 1048A)
 

Well I started to receive all of my new Custom Parts for my watercooling rig so I opted to start taking apart the old watercooling setup when I found something REALLY weird inside my Eheim pump.

Now to give you guys a bit of info, I've been running this pump since 2004, and it's never been removed or the water in it changed... Water was still green and still the pump worked well and the system gave me good temps.

It was inside the water intake of the pump... PAPER!! Yes it seems it was some sort of tag from the store. It was jammed inside my pump and must have been there since I got it. So the pump NEVER FAILED and was being run hard.. I mean it must have worked HARD! This Definatly is an indicator of Eheim's Quality... my three previous pumps, before the Eheim 1048A, were VIA Aqua 1300's all of which failed.

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Re: Weirdest thing ever! (Eheim 1048A)
 

...and an ugly color too.

I wouldn't balme Eheim just yet; what was plumbed before the pump? Radiator? Is there any way that you could have noticed that, when you first put it together? (hard to miss, really)

Re: Weirdest thing ever! (Eheim 1048A)
 

Well I had never looked inside the pump.. see I opted to remove the fitting and thats when I saw this.

Re: Weirdest thing ever! (Eheim 1048A)
 

That is weird!

Hey, you may get better flow now. ;)

Re: Weirdest thing ever! (Eheim 1048A)
 

Wow! Amazing that it worked at all! Plus, that it worked well enough to cool your computer.

Re: Weirdest thing ever! (Eheim 1048A)
 

Computer is cooled by a thermoelectric module. but yeah I had noticed the flowrate was low.. I blamed it on the pump not being the most powerful thing.

Now I know why the flowrate was soo bad.. makes me wish I did not buy two MCP655's now.