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Originally Posted by #Rotor
24hour leak tests are at best a feel-good myth.... I mean come on, if it's not leaking after you switched the pump on and pinched the return tube for some pressure stress...(or 20 minutes, for a slow leak), what makes you think 24 hours is going to make it any less likely to start a leak.... and in that case.... why not 48hours,
I'd rather recommend running the rig fully installed with a paper towl neatly placed over the graphics or pci cards that would be in harms way....The reason for it , as you install things you yank and pull on tubes and stuff.... so a freshly installed 24your-tested setup, is as unsafe as one not tested at all.... not so...  |
that may be true, but I was really only comfortable after 24 hours not installed. When I put it in I did only wait 6...I got too impatient to wait anymore. I have a paper towel under and around the pump since that always seems to be a popular leakpoint, in fact I did fix a leak but that was because I didnt clamp the top part of my T-line. The 24 hours test is to make sure the block, rad, and res dont have any holes, its not to test tubing really.