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Why HC's are bad for your health

Watch out for being locked in a scrapyard with a very large guard dog! It took 1 hour to sneak out over the back fence. :drool:

Anyway.......finaly got a copper HC from a Scania truck, but unlike cars the dashboard on these are huge with the HC burried deep inside. Once I lick my wounds a bit more, I'll take some snaps.

Safer methods of copper rad collecting could be from these people http://www.readyrads.co.uk. Also, it may be obvious to you-lot, but searching in Google for "heater matrix copper" yeilded better results than "Heatercore"

+"heater matrix" +copper

had even better results!

Wouldnt it have been easier to have used the front door during buisness hours like normal people? :D :D :D

I just got carried away looking for the perfect core, I was only supposed to be 20mins :)

But on a happier thought, I got a HC for free!!

a scania HC?, lol, i can imagine how hard that must have been, but weren't there any junk cars there aswell, they would have been easier take apart.

Lol, make note, bring beef jerky to junkyard excursions:D

Dude I take my hat off to you!, I had a good look round some scrapped trucks and I know just how 'buried' those HC's are!...

Let us know the size will you?...

Dunno 'bout the size but you can guess from the pics below.

I guess 2x 172mm fans + shroud would be fine.

BTW, what is the best way to clean up those fins???? I gave the whole lot a bath for 15 hours in diluted vinagar and with a bit of Brasso, it's shines.

http://www.nuttynutnut.pwp.blueyonde...tercore002.jpg
http://www.nuttynutnut.pwp.blueyonde...ercoreb004.jpg
http://www.nuttynutnut.pwp.blueyonde...ercoreb007.jpg

Saw someone on a UK board with one of those...but I think ally.

use air, if you have a compressor, just blow air on it, or use one of those bbq metal brushes

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Take a 5 gallon buck and fill it half way up with the hottest water you can get your hands on. Dump plenty of toilet bowl cleaner in the water - the kind containing hydrochloric acid works the best. Submerge the heater core in the water. Be sure to check on it periodically because if you leave it in the water too long, the acid may dissolve too much of the metal and create a pin hole. It usually takes about a half an hour.

"Restoring A Heater Core For Use As A Radiator"
Jeffery Evans - 11/22/00

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Re: Why HC's are bad for your health

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Originally posted by Danger-Darryn
Watch out for being locked in a scrapyard with a very large guard dog! It took 1 hour to sneak out over the back fence. :drool:

Anyway.......finaly got a copper HC from a Scania truck, but unlike cars the dashboard on these are huge with the HC burried deep inside. Once I lick my wounds a bit more, I'll take some snaps.

Safer methods of copper rad collecting could be from these people http://www.readyrads.co.uk. Also, it may be obvious to you-lot, but searching in Google for "heater matrix copper" yeilded better results than "Heatercore"

Man... I feel your PAIN! finding a nice HC is SOOO much easier than tackling how to get that mofo out! But with the right TOOLS it's not so bad :) I dug out a chevette 86" HC in the middle of July and it was like 98F this past summer, while wearing thick jeans and a sweatshirt, in hopes of avoiding hidden hornet's nests and flying chips of sharp plastic, as I bashed away at the HC's housing.

I used the following for a quick (15min) extraction:

--14" Bolt cutters (to cut main lines and anything in the way)
--Steel Hammer
--Vise grips
--Multi head screw driver set with L-bend (for tight spots)
--hackSaw

WIth a backpack and those above, getting a HC isn't so bad... plus if you do some winter searching, the plastic breaks REALLY easy in the cold! ;) Good luck all!

i realize i have auto parts accounts and all, and it takes some of the fun out of a field trip, but isn't easier to spend $30-35 at a local parts house to get a ready-to-go no-rebuilding HC?

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Originally posted by iroc409
i realize i have auto parts accounts and all, and it takes some of the fun out of a field trip, but isn't easier to spend $30-35 at a local parts house to get a ready-to-go no-rebuilding HC?

But then you can't tear sh!t up!:p

Man with water cooling...for me, it's ALL about searching and building the stuff MYSELF... I could get someone else's block and stuff and get probably, MUCH better numbers, but I made it my hobby and a good hobby SHOULD take time, work, confusion and finally working solutions... plus, hunting around in the junkyard and BREAKING MAD SHIT IS FUN!!! :)

I must say, thats a rather nice looking heatercore :)

Yea, I'd like to build my own WB's but I have no tools really :(

The project is on hold at the mo, my ABIT BD7-II RAID mobo died after scrapping the old thermal tape off the nothbridge.

Purchaced the Atlantis WB's for my P4, NB & Geforce4 (thanks Jess!!) Will get it all going in the new year.