Gooserider
Are we seeing a pattern in most of the replies here?? like I'd indicated in your disaster thread, user error in one form or another seems to be the most common factor from what I've seen here and generally.
This was part of the reason I made an idiot proof system to ensure the pump must be plugged in, powered & monitoring flow once it is.
Been water-cooling about 2½ years now and no leaks or disasters
YET. The only mishap was when I refilled the system once and had forgot to re-connect a festo fitting, I paid for that little oversight with a hair dryer & blow gun, but the system as always was completely de-powered before I work on it........ so it was just an inconvenience really.
I'm now pretty "confident" in my block making and system set-up, and I really don't think too much about leaks anymore, this complacency is natural I guess, but dangerous, however I accept sooner or later I will have, or cause a disaster. Can't ever see myself going back to air-cooling though whatever mistakes I may make with water-cooling in the future.
I think the key is to work in a logical fashion, and not be tempted to rush stuff. If something isn't right, re-do it properly, never be tempted to bodge for now, as the bodge will stay as a bodge until it fails. You'll then have to sort it out when you replace the hardware it took with it when it failed.
