[neoacid]

Can you tell me if that red gm antifreeze is the Dexacool stuff? Seems everybody that i ask doesn't know exactly what i'm talking about ... and Dexacool is the only red antifreeze that they carry. Just want to make sure that this is the one ... Also, what brand of distilled water do you use. I picked up some the other day from the grocery store cuz i thought it was the closest i could find (it was purified using RO, micron filtration, UV, and ozonation) but it didn't say anything about distillation. After reading more about it, i found out that having been purified in this manner does not also imply that it was steam distilled. From what i gather on the post, this is probably the most important process of them all with concern to my cooling system's well-being.

I'm also having problems finding the hyperlube, and i have already bought some of the water wetter stuff (that was before i found this site ... none of the other sites talked this much about WC, so WW was all i knew of). I saw one person post in another thread that water wetter causes foaming because it is a surfactant, but on their website it says it prevents foaming. Also, since it is a surfactant, it's suppose to reduce surface tension. Here's my theory: The surface tension is reduced because the surfactant helps to weaken the attraction that water molecules inherently have due to their polarity. When air is trapped in water, the water encapsulates it (forms a bubble around it). The water is able to hold this shape around the air because of the attractions between it's molecules. If a surfactant is used to weaken this attraction, then the bubbles should be less stable and have a greater tendency to lose their form so that the air will be released (or does this just mean that the bubbles will compensate by being smaller??) Does this sound right to all of you?? (i'm trying to gauge if WW and hyperlube prevent foaming and loosen surface tension to the same degree)

The other thing i was wondering is if the reason why many of the people using water wetter had the white stringy buildup was because they weren't using the glycol and sanitizer with it? Has anybody used basically the same solution as airspirit but with water wetter instead of hyperlube? Do you still get the buildups and organic growths? Is it possible that the solution went from pink to clear in many people's systems using only disttilled water + watter wetter due to the organic life that survived in it or because it was reacting with the surfaces of their systems by coating it?? This would be bad if it did, b/c it seems to me that any coating of the surfaces inside your system would decrease it's thermal conductivity.

...I'm so confused about what to put in my system. I would put what airspirit recommends if only i could find the glycol and hyperlube he's using. I'll keep searching