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today we're gonna be refilling the anti mac slick tech tr4 cooler so this is a closed-loop or as some people call it a io liquid cooler and we took it apart for our part of our review and talked about how it actually goes together really well it's high-quality materials nice metal body for the pump housing and should be pretty easy to refill so in terms of closed-loop coolers and a iOS this is the most serviceable we've seen yet and now it's time to actually demonstrate that so we've got a funnel that we made we're gonna pour some liquid and reassemble the whole thing and see how the data looks compared to the original out of factory build but before we get into that this coverage is brought to you by ifixit.com and their Pro Tech tool kit I fix it as refreshing their Pro Tech tool kit in time for the holidays you can find a link in the description below to the Pro Tech tool kit and other toolkits that iFixit sells we find the Pro Tech and essentials kits to be the most useful for DIY enthusiasts so for what I have in front of me we have the cooler which we previously disassembled on camera this is a thread Ripper cooler it has a threader precised cold plate that actually performs really well in our testing and we need to reassemble everything first so do that and then once that's done we'll be able to refill the liquid it had about 200 millimeters millimeters 200 milliliters of liquid when we measured it originally plus or minus a couple drops that we didn't catch in the measuring cup and I have next to me just some this comes with the ek fluid gaming kits so this is just I poured it in here for film purposes but it's just distilled water and the ek cryo fluid whatever mixture they have so it's mixed to the ek spec it's not going to be the exact same propylene glycol mixture but it should be pretty close then we'll be able to see if there's a performance disparity that would be measurable from it but really the point is by doing this this is something you could use to keep the cooler alive because closed loop coolers tend to have permeation issues after about 5 years so if you have a long service life and a thread ripper workstation you might want to keep the cooler for 5 years or more if you start seeing before degradation you hear pump gurgling noises or air being sucked through the loop that means that there is permeation where the liquid is starting to seep into the tubes and so to help solve for that you can take it apart as we did drain what's in there and then refill it to about 200 milliliters plus or minus whatever is extra so yeah we put all of our excess fluid gaming stuff in these vials that we had for a b-roll prop and we're just going to refill the thing with a funnel made out of a sort of plastic coated paper so that hopefully shouldn't decay too much as we're pouring it we taped it with gaff tape and yeah let's just get started with reassembly so I think it's been a while since I took it apart so I need to try and remember the exact order for reassembly which I think the best way to do it is probably sort of watching our own videos remember it probably gonna be dropping that in there but there's a gasket that needs to go in first so we have a rubber gasket that goes around this thingy here so it's not perfectly clean it's pretty clean though so the gasket will go around there okay so that should pretty much take care of that cable goes through the cable channel right there so that's where the cable goes and now I think we have a bunch of screws okay so that should be tight enough that there's no leakage in that seal hopefully but that's what we got for getting the motor back in then this has to push down and I think over that we're gonna put the pump cap don't remember what way this was oriented though could do it either way I guess alright that's pretty secure no liquids in that chamber anyway next thing is the bottom so we already put the gasket back in on the other side there's a gasket on this side too which is this one and it does have two different sizes to it so it does actually matter how you put this back on I think the correct orientation is this one yes it'll fit kind of funny the other way so that's how it goes back on there is there so there's actually a little bit of rust in here or something corrosion of some kind which if we grab the giant Torx 20 I can show here's where we're gonna try and refill it - and these giant things these are TR these are Torx 20s so I think that's definitely corrosion on the end of that and you can't really you're not gonna be able to see it but there's corrosion down inside the chamber as well I think there's a little bit around here not positive on that last part though but I think this comes from probably the screw they're using I also it's possible that this would not be an issue if we had never emptied it to begin with if they had some kind of agent in the liquid to prevent corrosion and you know we've left this sitting for a while now with no liquid in it so whatever was left in there if it wasn't the right mixture may have caused so we can't really blame anyone for it but copper bolts would avoid that as well so let's let's get the plate back in this orientation probably matters as well I would have to look at our own video to see what it was though so I know this is right because I can see the outline of where the fatter part of the gasket was which is over here as opposed to the outline of the skinnier part over there and I could reference our video but these are gonna have to be really tight this isn't the right size but I just want a couple turns on it that's agree great use of a magnet so these screws are nice because you really you can't over tighten them they go until they hit a point then stop and that's gonna make our lives a lot easier okay so we're good on these those are secure so we already took off one of these I guess I'll leave the other on and we just need to try and refill it I think the plan I don't think there's a better spot to do this certainly not in the pump block there's not a better spot I don't know if we started taking these embellishments off the radiator if we'd find a secret but I mean there's no tanks over here the tanks are on the ends and unless it's hidden under a sticker no there's no refill cap in those we could probably take one of the barbs the tube off the bar but that's really not any better than doing what I'm about to do so I think what we're gonna do is I'm gonna hold it up kind of higher for gravity refill up here and then just like tip it and hope that it refills the whole thing and I think the best way to know when it's full because it's probably gonna take a few tries me like move closing it and moving the radiator around best way to know when it's full is probably gonna be to fill this container to be 200 milliliters that we measured previously and then just pour that amount in plus maybe a little bit extra how much how much just 200 so I'm gonna pour like 205 to 210 just to allow some room for spilling or for what I spilled on the way out previously so that's probably it's probably about 220 right now okay got a funnel we made I'm just gonna put some tape around that okay hopefully this works coming out of the tube I think right of the funnel now I poured too much in okay so some of that went in okay so first the time to no good it's somewhat refilled that time it's like bleeding brakes or something both those are full this size way easier which I think I shouldn't have to do with flow direction because the pumps not on but whatever so that trick is much they get air bubbles moving if there are any basically like burping brakes if you've ever done that for something like a bike same idea actually here I liquid in there now that's good so new development is I was resealing those to be safe each time but you can get it to tip about this far before it starts coming out of the top which is enough for it to start going down the tubes so I'm able to just do that instead of recapping it which is gonna make this about four times faster that's two screws I don't have to do every single time now it's also gonna allow me to more accurately refill the unit to the amount it's built for so we're gonna lose it a little bit like a drop where I first starts Hilton and then once I can see where my limit is how far I can go like right there I see the liquid coming out we just stop tilting it and let it drain straight down into the tubes the tubes need to be vertical nice this is actually gonna work with how much these things cost it would be worth your time to spend like I mean now that I figured out how to do it should only take really 30 to 40 minutes to do a rebuild well you got unbuilt it's hits maybe call it an hour but I'm getting most the tricks so that should make it faster for you and for how much they cost it if it takes you an hour to do it and it saves you 130 bucks 150 bucks that's basically 130 dollars an hour not too bad okay so we turned the pump on once it got pretty much all so that the pumps lubricated enough it won't hurt itself and now we're just topping off the last couple drops of fluid turning the pump on helped a lot you don't want to do that unless you know it's not going to burn out but once you have enough liquid in there to start with it does make it a lot easier to pour more quickly at this point I'm just trying to figure out how many more drops of fluid it needs it's getting pretty close you can even see the liquid entering through this tube like down the hole so I'm not really gonna be able to show that but I can see it coming in through there now the pumps making some noise a little unhappy but we should be able to fix that and second yeah okay that's a lot better pump is quiet and down a bit now losing some fluid because I have 2 radiator above it obviously it's mostly they're gonna use a couple more drops of liquid but it is mostly okay at this point it's only unhappy when it's fighting gravity with the tubes so that means it just needs to be topped off probably another 10 or 20 milliliters so I will do that off-camera but as far as this goes I think we're pretty much done so get in there so yeah it takes a little bit but if you spend a lot of money for the cooler which probably did the 360 is 360 $150 so you spent a lot of money for the cooler might be worth doing to make this easier a larger hole for one a hole in the radiator tanks would be ideal enter max if you're like listening and you if you actually want this to be a feature or a selling point of the cooler then stick an access valve in the radiator tank I don't I don't think it would have been better for us to go through the tube I think going the way we did probably one of the easier ways there might be another something hidden away somewhere but that's best I got so yeah it's refillable now we just need to test it and see how it actually performs so we'll do that separately and keep an eye out for that hopefully it should be about the same performance worst case or maybe slightly better depending on if this coolant I filled it with is better or worse than what it came with so that's all for this one subscribe for more as always you can go to patreon.com/scishow sexist helps that directly or go to store it I came as an access net to pick up like this one thank you for watching I'll see you all next time