Name: This fluid has been running for TWO YEARS! Did it hold up?
Uploaded: 2020-04-13T17:22:39.000Z
Duration: 11 min 36 s
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you know, one of the things you have to keep in mind with water cooled, Riggs is regular maintenance or, in my case, completely neglected.

For two years, this coolant has been sitting in this Riggs at September of 2016.

Which means this fluid has definitely surpassed the typical annual flush and fill that I'll do.

So the goal of today is to completely drain this system.

Take a look at the block, see how they fare.

Did any of that white powdery stuff build up?

Remember, this is a pastel fluid from mayhem, which in the past, ads and problems with with the yellow and the orange but the blue and the green so far in both systems have had them running in has been extremely solid through and drain it.

Take a look at it and prepare for an upgrade that's coming to skunk works in the very near future.

But I just wanted Thio kind of video today to see what happens when you leave a fluid in a system for two years.

Now, this is gonna be pretty easy today because when I set this up, it's almost like I knew what I was doing.

That joke is never going to get old to me.

So the bottom is actually prepped now for me to dream.

But I've got two loops in this, remember?

So I'm going to save that one for last because the GP loop, which is the bottom one down there, It's kind of a pain to get all the fluid out of because I have this part right here, which sort of just dangles there.

But the CP loop is you can see it's all contained right here goes in the reservoir out to the pump, into the CPU block through the rad, back the red and into the reservoir.

The drain is down here at the lowest point, so this is extremely easy for me to get most of the fluid out of.

We did have what looks like and the camera's probably not gonna pick this up, but the GP loop, which is the hotter loop, has definitely gone about.

I already think Phil, maybe 1/2 shade darker Can you see that literally Right now If we put up this side by side compared to the old videos, the yellow turn straight up puke brown for diarrhea brown and the orange turned a disgusting nasty color as well.

But both the yellow and the orange did it in only a few months.

This is turned just such a slightly darker green in two years.

So I'd say this fluid is holding up pretty well Now, I've done this a 1,000,000 times.

I've showed this in my previous videos, but inevitably, I always asked a bunch of times how I dreamed my systems show.

I'm gonna go ahead and show you right now.

Of course, I've got this drain valve you can thread on a barb.

In this case, I have ah, Alfa cool compression fitting.

And you could just push on you're fitting and then stick the other end and sort of some sort of a catch can can or container.

I've had this hose pop out and spray everywhere.

But because of the damn innertube that I use, I can actually shove it right there in the handle.

Now, if I open up this valve or this plug on the top right here, air can get into the loop, which means as soon as I train or turn this bow, physics takes over bad.

Right now, what I'm gonna be doing is if this if the blocks check out and there's no powdery residue oxidation or any of the nickel being eaten away, then I'm gonna mix both of these fluids together so that they're the same color.

And then what we'll do is we'll mix them together and put back in.

Sometimes when you start dealing with the powder build up, you'll see it forming on the O rings.

I've taken these o rings off before on the fluids that have started to change color on me and have them be nothing but a big powdery mess.

And I showed those of some of the previous video, so make sure you guys check those out.

But what I'm about to do right now, it's kind of gross.

Some would even say you're blowing bacteria in there, but you gotta kind of blow your system to help push out some of the food.

Now, the reason why I do this and I'm not concerned about blowing in there is these fluids are also growth inhibitors so that you don't get things like algae and bacteria and other things sort of growing in the loop.

I was planning on taking the block off and looking at it up close, but Phil gets in here.

You can see that block is extremely clean, so you can see there's no real discoloration.

There's no powder build up, its maybe slightly yellowed, but that's normal when nickel has fluid running over it.

But if there's any sort of settlement building up, um, it would probably end up being in the GP rig because temperature can really break down a fluid quickly, and the GP loop gets significantly hotter than my CP group.

So that's the one that we definitely want to look at closely.

We're just gonna open up one of the fittings on the top of the reservoir air can't get in, then fluid can't get out, or it just dribbles really badly like, you know, like a bed that that p I don't know.

I was trying to say All right, so we turned this knob here.

Physics or physics to get a good look at the GPU.

That little buildup of whatever this gunk is right here is in both blocks in the exact same spot.

So it didn't happen with this fluid that could have been something left over from previous fluid.

There's no powder you could see on the nickel.

Sometimes people see a little bit of bleed in the area in the middle of the block, like where the fluid will kind of Passover it slightly.

The only O ring in here is on the perimeter.

There's nothing sealing off the inside other than the pressure of the acrylic pushing down.

So you're going to see some fluid kind of make its way on top of the metal in between the acrylic layer.

So don't freak out if you see that what we care about obviously is what it looks like here.

And if we look at this blockhead on, there is absolutely no corrosion of any kind.

Now let's talk about Skunk works here for a minute because a lot of you guys were really kind of sad that the system was missing from the channel for the last couple, almost couple of years, while I've been the studio now over a year and 1/2.

And so a lot of folks were just really missing skunk works because this was always the centerpiece of my channel.

This build was intended to be completely impractical, expensive, unnecessary, you know, kind of like me.

I want to bring this back to the channel.

So I'm going to be tearing apart my system that I have upstairs currently because, you know, Phil does 99% of our editing now, and so we're gonna be doing some more stuff for a system for him.

But I want to bring this system back to the forefront of the channel.

So I'm gonna start integrating this system or in some videos, it's going to be my my desk rig upstairs in our little editing den, which means an upgrade is necessary.

Now let's talk about this upgrade real quick.