Water Wetter permanently stains tygon.

zoson · 04-14-2003, 11:40 AM

Yeah, after so many month's of using my tygon it's definately stained brown. I bought a 1/2 pipe cleaner brush, and tried all sorts of cleaning agents. No results, at all. My tygon is permanently a brownish color now...
st00pid water wetter... anyone know if that purple ice stuff stains stuff purple? What effect does it have on glowdye?
-Zoson

BrianH · 04-14-2003, 01:53 PM

My tubes are stained after just 6 months..... oh well, they will still work!

theetruscan · 04-14-2003, 03:57 PM

Tygon has a slight brownish tint to begin with (at least the Tygon I'm looking at), how much worse does the brownish tint get?

Can O' Beans · 04-15-2003, 02:12 AM

They're talking about the CLEAR tygon.

and, that sucks. Glad I stuck with Water & a splash of antifreeze.

Sproket · 04-15-2003, 06:01 PM

I believe my Tygon is absorbing the UV green die Im using. Sounds crazy but the green glow is gone after 30-40 hours. The same thing I put in system is in a Gatorade bottle and that is still glowing strong. Plus Im seeing a slight cloudyness of the tygon after 2 days. I may pull it out or part of it!!

Cova · 04-16-2003, 10:26 AM

Sproket: I had a similar thing happen to my setup. I put in my pink coolant when I built it (distilled water + water wetter), and after 3 or 4 weeks my coolant was clear again (and the Tygon was still clear too). I figured that since the water-wetter should be forming a protective layer on all the metal and that since I have a very small volume of coolant (no res) that I somehow used it all up, so I put in a bit more pure water-wetter. Now (about 1 year later, coolant has never been changed, just topped up) the coolant is a browner shade of pink, but still not really brown either. Without draining it I have no way to know if the Tygon is actually stained, but I should find out in the next month or two when I rebuild/upgrade, and if this thread is still alive then I will update.

04-14-2003, 11:40 AM	#1
zoson Cooling Savant Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: X Posts: 204	Water Wetter permanently stains tygon. Yeah, after so many month's of using my tygon it's definately stained brown. I bought a 1/2 pipe cleaner brush, and tried all sorts of cleaning agents. No results, at all. My tygon is permanently a brownish color now... st00pid water wetter... anyone know if that purple ice stuff stains stuff purple? What effect does it have on glowdye? -Zoson __________________ Core i7 930 @ 4254Hz 22x193 \| ASUS R3E 901 BIOS \| 12GB Mushkin Blackline 3x4GB @ 1547MHz 7-8-7-24-1N \| Lian Li PC-A10B 2x EVGA GTX275 SLI @ 720/1266/1566 \| 2x 80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSD Raid 0 \| 3x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint 7.2K Raid 5 \| Corsair 950TX H2O \| Enzotech Sapphire Rev.A \| EK-FB RE3 \| Swiftech - 2x MCW60/GTX275 Unisink, MCP655b, MCRes Micro.v2 \| 3x HWLabs SR1-120 あなたの神への弓 Time isn't wasted, when you're gettin' wasted.

04-15-2003, 06:01 PM	#5
Sproket Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 193	I believe my Tygon is absorbing the UV green die Im using. Sounds crazy but the green glow is gone after 30-40 hours. The same thing I put in system is in a Gatorade bottle and that is still glowing strong. Plus Im seeing a slight cloudyness of the tygon after 2 days. I may pull it out or part of it!! __________________ NF7-S Bios D1.8 218FSB X 11.5 1700+ DLT3C 0310 @ 2511Mhz TwinMos 2x256 PC3200 BH-5 Albatron TI4800se 310/643 3dmark 15,110 3DMark2001SE Link

04-14-2003, 01:53 PM	#2
BrianH Cooling Savant Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ottawa, Ont, Canada Posts: 115	My tubes are stained after just 6 months..... oh well, they will still work!

04-14-2003, 03:57 PM	#3
theetruscan Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: OR/CA/NY Posts: 81	Tygon has a slight brownish tint to begin with (at least the Tygon I'm looking at), how much worse does the brownish tint get?

04-15-2003, 02:12 AM	#4
Can O' Beans Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Pa - USA Posts: 264	They're talking about the CLEAR tygon. and, that sucks. Glad I stuck with Water & a splash of antifreeze.

04-16-2003, 10:26 AM	#6
Cova Cooling Savant Join Date: May 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 247	Sproket: I had a similar thing happen to my setup. I put in my pink coolant when I built it (distilled water + water wetter), and after 3 or 4 weeks my coolant was clear again (and the Tygon was still clear too). I figured that since the water-wetter should be forming a protective layer on all the metal and that since I have a very small volume of coolant (no res) that I somehow used it all up, so I put in a bit more pure water-wetter. Now (about 1 year later, coolant has never been changed, just topped up) the coolant is a browner shade of pink, but still not really brown either. Without draining it I have no way to know if the Tygon is actually stained, but I should find out in the next month or two when I rebuild/upgrade, and if this thread is still alive then I will update.

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