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Originally Posted by kronchev
"After using DI water mixed with some watter wetter I had one of my tubes(that was clamped really tightly!) pop off and soaked my carpet pink. Well what happened is that the stuff ate at my tubing and made the tubing sorta gummy, and the tubing lost its grip around the nipple of the water block."
Um..unpossible. Water wetter is designed to NOT eat plastic tubing, or to loosten it at all. User error, you got what you deserved if it got everywhere.
also i have no problem with replacing water. does ANYONE here, at a DIY forum, honestly have a problem with draining and refilling a system? I would hope NOT. we can bother to take the 10 minutes to drain and refil because its worth it to save so much over that stuff. oh and a slimy layer wouldnt only prevent the water from gaining ions, it would also impede heat transfer. but theyve already admitted it works worse than plain water.
what really pisses me off is how misleading they are to people. i had one friend whose new to WC actually say "i want fluidXP+ because it doesnt have any water in it so its safer." now i realize hes probabily not great at chemistry if he even remembers any but just damn. i asked a chem engineering friend of the family of dihydrogen oxide was the real thing to call water and he said that it sounded really shady to call it that on the bottle.
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Man dont be such a troll sure be constructive, you can add your critique, etc. but be cool about it man. I am not trying to start a flame war but trying discuss the material.
Actually water wetter will both eat your plastic tubes and cause them to loosen. It is designed for used with a lot more durable tubing used in cars, most of the time made out of a higher grade rubber but heck you still have to change your coolant hoses cause they DO decay and get dryed out, etc.. Check out the PH and the friction resistance, etc. on their tech spec.
http://www.redlineoil.com/whitePaper/17.pdf. Water wetter also adds a bunch of metals to your system which arent necessarily a good thing. Another side not is that the fluid xp is non toxic compared to watter wetter. That was another significant selling point to me as I have animals in my house and when that tube popped off my carpet was soaked with the stuff. Last thing I need is an animal licking it up.
As far as them supposedly misleading people, I havent seen them say that but if they did thats messed up. I did however do a search based upon what I saw on the last thread and looked for keywords, dihydrogen oxide and msds also did dyhydrogen oxide and ingredients and it comes up in a lot of products. Mainly under MSDS which is what the review guys got their info from since the only thing that was printed on the bottles ive seen both in review and the one I own is a logo for fluid XP and the lab that manufacturered it.
Gone_fishing: Thanks for catching that one, wasnt thinking about the DI comming in gallons but also people rarely use a whole gallon to fill their system, not like people dont but very rarely as a gallon is rather excessive and wasteful. They probably use 32-48 oz usually. In which case you can compare the numbers. Also if your going to run say a 50/50 mix or 30/70 mix of water wetter that can get sorta costly.