Eastrider

I mean, intensively!

I'm planning to change my tubing since I had some issues with Primochill DYE, and I want to clean the hell out of it. New tubing, cleaned pump, blocks, barbs, everything.

But how do I clean intensively my radiator? What liquid should I use? Alcohol, or pure vinegar? I'd like if you could give me some advices

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Syrillian

Warm soapy water in a deep-sink with a very soft toothbrush (not on some rads like the HW labs which have very delicate fins).

Also compressed air after to help dry and remove excess water from the fin-area (again take care not to beat the fins up).

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Mikecdm

I always use vinegar with water, but I have never really done such intensive cleaning. The only time that I used dye, to clean it I did distilled + vinegar and flushed it several times until the water had no color to it.

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tK FuRY

when I still ran H2O, I filled a bucket with BOILING HOT water and soaked the rad in it for an hour or two. Then I flushed the RAD with Vinegar or whatever automotive grade RAD flush (if I was at the shop), Don't use an alkaline as they take away metal. You can also use diluted Hydrochloric acid if you have. After that, I flushed it again with water, just attach a hose and run it on HIGH for a few minutes.

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_AKIMbO_

Use a mix of vinegar and hot water to flush out the rad.

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IntelFloyd

I use hot water then a little soak in vinegar then rise it all out with distilled a few times before I hook it up and go to town.

Protezione

hot water+ vinegar gets my vote. For cleaning the outside, very soft toothbrush and elbow grease.

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Eastrider

Ok people! Thank you all for the great answers!

Also, a subquestion came to my mind: if I run Distilled + PT Nuke, there's any risk of corrosion, or something?

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Syrillian

None that I am aware of unless you mix your metals in your loop.

Note that PT Nuke has a tendency to "cloud" some tubing.

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Protezione

qft.

Mixed metals are bad anyways.

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