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Rob C · 09-12-2002, 05:29 PM

I don't know whether it was just the combination of brands of epoxy and antifreeze, but I had major leakage problems when I built a perspex reservoir for my watercooling system. I glued it together with epoxy glue, and filled it with a water/antifreeze mix. The blue colour of the antifreeze may have looked cool, but after a few days I noticed the previously hard, pale epoxy had been stained blue and become soft, rubbery and weak (kinda like those chewy coca cola bottle sweets if you know what I mean

). My reservoir started leaking all over, so I took it apart, rebuilt it, let it dry, refilled it - and a couple of days later, same problem. So the next time I repaired and filled it, I left out the antifreeze - now I've been running it for a year with no problems

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I was worried about algae and stuff too, so I boiled the water before using it to kill off anything, and left it overnight in the fridge to cool down. I've not noticed anything growing in the water despite (like I said) having been running for a year. So just boil the water and you should be fine - and be wary of antifreeze... rebuilding my reservoir those coupla times was a helluva pain and took forever... wish I'd figured it out earlier...

09-12-2002, 05:29 PM	#7
Rob C Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Woodcote, UK Posts: 18	I don't know whether it was just the combination of brands of epoxy and antifreeze, but I had major leakage problems when I built a perspex reservoir for my watercooling system. I glued it together with epoxy glue, and filled it with a water/antifreeze mix. The blue colour of the antifreeze may have looked cool, but after a few days I noticed the previously hard, pale epoxy had been stained blue and become soft, rubbery and weak (kinda like those chewy coca cola bottle sweets if you know what I mean ). My reservoir started leaking all over, so I took it apart, rebuilt it, let it dry, refilled it - and a couple of days later, same problem. So the next time I repaired and filled it, I left out the antifreeze - now I've been running it for a year with no problems . I was worried about algae and stuff too, so I boiled the water before using it to kill off anything, and left it overnight in the fridge to cool down. I've not noticed anything growing in the water despite (like I said) having been running for a year. So just boil the water and you should be fine - and be wary of antifreeze... rebuilding my reservoir those coupla times was a helluva pain and took forever... wish I'd figured it out earlier...