Tube not clear

Liquete

New member
Good afternoon,

I am maintenace the liquid cooling, and the tubes are not clear.
It is as if some kind of algae or residue has been generated.

How can I clean the system?
What product do you recommend to clean it with?

Thanks for your help.

Best regards
 

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Thomas_S

... the nice marketing guy next door
Staff member
That is quite simple. You need to flush the system properly & preferably with distilled water.
 

Eddy

Iceman
Staff member
That looks more like plasticizer to me. This dissolves over time from PVC hoses and discolors the water and the hoses. How old are the hoses?
 

pdifolco

Member
Got the same issue some time ago, when I added a pump and reservoir to my Eisbear I had the same greenish tainted coolant, I had to flush the system...
I didn't change anything before and the Eisbear was less than 1 year old
 

Liquete

New member
sorry for not replying sooner but I had notifications disabled by mistake.

the tubes are about 3 - 4 years old.
I have used premixed clear from alphacool and ewbk.
every year I have changed the fluid

cleaning the system with distilled water, and it has improved somewhat.

in the end I changed the tubes (I still have them).
I used the leftover tubes from the eissturm kit.
 

Liquete

New member
I'm sorry I didn't reply, I don't know why I didn't receive the notification.

Yes, the tubes are clean because I changed them.
The previous ones, after applying the distilled water, were free of residues but still discoloured.
 
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