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I'm going to apologize right now if the lighting tends to go like light dark light dark light dark I rely on a lot of natural light here in the shop because it's a window there and had to roll the door down over there because the birds are out there like tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet like it's spring or some so I roll the door down and now the lighting in here kind of sucks and I'm realizing that I'm gonna have to address the lighting situation in this room as soon as I address the giant massive pile of boxes over there which never seems to get any freaking smaller the mastercase 5 and mastercase 5 pro from Coolermaster combines modularity with creativity giving you the freedom to build it your way make it yours by clicking the link down in the description now I have to drain my system again because I'm still working with Mayhem's and now hardware labs to get to the bottom of why the color is changing inside my system and to do that we're going to put fresh fluid in here we're going to flush it out with distilled water we're not going to use any chemicals we're going to completely flush it out this is editing J and I decided to go ahead and pause this video for a second and let you know that yes that white speck on my shirt right there is bugging me so much while editing this video it must be bugging you as a viewer so do me a favor hit the like button on this video because then maybe I'll learn how to actually wash my clothes damn idiot alright back on with the video and I'm gonna show you guys how the drains work in my system here to kind of give you guys some ideas of how to drain your loops when you're putting your stuff together because honestly a lot of people put their systems together and then at the end of the day they go - no how the hell am I supposed to get the fluid out of there well today we're gonna show ya ok so the first things first it's the lighting in here like I said it's terrible so it does cool it looks like it's black it's not I promise it's orange this is the loop that's changed color on me now the CPU loop which that's the first time that's happened but again like I said I'm working with hardware labs and Mayhem's and we're all working together here to get to the bottom line because at the end of the day all we're going to be left with is a better product if we can figure out why this is happening now tons and people came to me and were like dude my color is not changing you're cray cray and plenty people came to me and they're like J my colors changing please let us know what you find out that's why I am going to today be flushing out all of this fluid this is the primo chill fluid I mean we're putting the pastel back in here after we do a distilled water flush I'm not using any chemicals I'm not doing another Brit blitz Pro cleaning or blitz cleaning I have all that stuff but at the request of Mayhem's we're just going to do a distilled water flush because our goal today at least not today it's gonna take some time is we want the Mayhem's to change color we want this to change to start to darken on us because I'm going to send them a sample of the untouched fluid I'm going to mix it with distilled water and I'm going to send them a sample of the fresh unused fluid and then once the fluid starts to change a sample of the dark fluid so they can compare and see exactly what happened yeah everyone throws out pH pH pH but we need to know what is causing the pH to change knowing the pH change is one thing but they're going to do their chemical tests to get to the bottom line of exactly what is happening so I'm taking this opportunity here to not only whore myself out and make a video and try at the end of the day to make a dollar at least enough to buy some Starbucks but to finally answer the question of how do the drains work inside my sister transition now my system I have two loops and the CPU loop is the easiest to change because there's the drain for it right there you can see it's at the very bottom of the pump reservoir combo and it's at the very lowest point of the loop that's the most important thing if you're going to have a drain valve like I'm using you want it to be at the very bottom of the loop and the reason for that is if you you know crack it open you don't want to have any fluid settled below that point because then you have to take the components out and physically tip them over to actually get all of that out which is kind of pain in the ass you know let's face it we want to do the most efficient which is also known as the laziest way to do something at least in my case but because the radiator is horizontal up at the top of the loop we have no issues getting that drained out and you'll see that the challenge with the GPU loop as you can see is I have a radiator right here that's on its side rather than horizontal so these take longer to bleed and get all the air out they also are harder to get all of the fluid out because you have the rows going like this on top of each other and so the top wants to you know you have to tip at certain ways to try and get it to a leak our or drain out and then no matter how hard you try there's always going to be some fluid lower than where the fitting is because as you know if you look at radiators as you can see those fittings are not you know at the very bottom right here they're in the middle so you've got these rows right here where fluid will collect fluid will collect down in there especially when they're mounted horizontal if you have to do lots of tipping to try and get the fluid to run from here you know into the end tank and then back down to here and it's kind of a pain in the ass the only way I'm going to really be able to get all of the fluid out is to pretty much disassemble the GPU radiators at the bottom and then you know manually tip them to get it out which really kind of sucks now skunkworks is obviously very busy down the bottom we got a no to 80 on its side and a 560 on its side which is why it's really kind of a pain in the ass to get these to drain because both radiators are dealing with that fitting you know not being at the very lowest point even though I do have a drain here that's coming off of a tee fitting on one of the radiators here on the lowest point where they're connected with a cross tube this still is not going to be at the very bottom of the loop so although this will help me get a lot of the fluid out it's not going to get everything out for me which again really kind of sucks but you know I'll make it work because I really don't feel like taking out the power supply in all the cables because I did that thing where I was like hey it'll be really cool to put hard tubing down here yeah well the flexible tubing allowed me to at least pull the radiator out you know kind of swing it away and get my hand in there if I needed to to disconnect the rads yeah can't exactly do that now with the rigid because I put those in and then the power supply and now that I have to drain it I'm like oh yeah I can't can exactly get my hand in there so I cracked open one of the little fittings on the top of the reservoir that way air can get into the loop otherwise we can't push it out so that's going to be something that's you want to keep in mind is if you get your reservoir did you get your reservoir at the highest point of the loop if you can't obviously if you have a radiator on top that's not going to work it will help it bleed faster but all I have here is an empty one gallon jug of distilled water and I have a tea valve here which is a bits power T valve with a fitting on the end of it plugging that so I'm going to go ahead and take the fitting off the end here you can always tell when your valve is closed by the way because when the valve is turned perpendicular to the flow direction that means it's closed and when it's turned parallel with it that means it's open we'll protip there for you that way you don't screw off your your look cap here and also there goes all your fluid all over your chair or whatever like in my case so now we're just gonna turn this guy ya skunkworks likes to take leaks she's a leaky bitch not really I've only had one leak in this thing like ever something else you can do - which tends to weird a lot of people out when they see me do it at least friends and stuff is I'll attach a piece of spare tubing to a barbed fitting there and then I will put it into the other end like that as you can see I actually have that press down into the handle right there that way doesn't pop out but then what I also do is I do that on the reservoir and then I literally blow into it yeah I blow the computer get your mind out of the gutter so you can see the GP loop is mostly drained there's of course still a little bit like right there in that tube there's going to be some left in the bottom of the radiator right there which is really going to suck well I guess technically what we just did was blow alright okay so the way that I'm going to do the actual flushing of the system here with the distilled water is exactly the same as I showed you when I did the test loop video where we tested milk and Gatorade or Powerade and all that junk where I'm basically going to fill the loop up with distilled water and then I'm going to crack the drain valve at the bottom of the loop just a little bit and I'm going to use my fill tube and I'm going to continue to add distilled water as it's slowly draining out of the bottom and letting the fluid recirculate in the loop that will end up catching all of the orange and pissing it out through the the actual drain at the bottom and then once we're done we're going to drain the entire system again like I showed you and hopefully get as much the fluid out as we possibly can so as you can see even though I'm filling it with clear distilled water it is actually turning orange because there was still some orange dye and fluid down there in the radiators so we're just going to continue to do this method of filling this reservoir as I crack that drain loop down there letting it drain into the catch bottle there until it starts getting completely clear it could take a while especially in the loop this size but that's the way that I actually will try and flush out previous color remember Mayhem's we want this we want this fluid to change color because we need to be able to test it so that's why we're only doing the distilled water method but the way it's drain it and stuff at all that all remains the same so as you can see right now the fluid level and the reservoir is going down slowly because I have that drain just cracked just a little bit and now as it goes down I'm just going to fill up the reservoir again and I'm going to do this over and over and over until the reservoir is completely clear also make sure you keep an eye on your catch bottle there you don't want to overflow on you you might have to throw that out every now and then depending how much fluid is in your loop and how much coolant or water it takes to actually completely make that you know clear damn son keeps going in and out making things super bright the exposure is all screwed up in this damn video now one really important thing to note here is that I am NOT powering up the system to do this to be able to run the pumps I have the pumps plugged into another power supply over there as you can see just a cheap little thermal tape power supply TR or rx 2 or TR 2 rx whatever yeah so I just have the pumping power do that you do not want to run your system while you are doing this especially when there's a chance of you possibly splashing it or spilling it so do not run your system while bleeding and trying to drain it like that but as you can see now the orange dye is no longer affecting the clear so that means we are completely flushed out of the color and it took about two gallons of power cord huh yeah way to go Jay but it took me approximately - well this is the second gallon of distilled water and you can see what's left so that's about how much it took it's going to take a lot less to do it with the CPU loop because like I said there's less fluid in it and that is literally at the very bottom of the loop so I'll be able to get most of the coolant out before we even start now allow me to show you why having multi-port res tops is definitely something worth having even if you don't think you're going to ever have the tube coming in the top because being able to open up one of these makes it very easy compared to having to unscrew the whole top when it comes to letting the fluid out right now I have the tube coming down in here into my catch a can or one gallon distilled water bottle let's be honest it's not really a can but even if I turn the valve to full open look at it's like oh nothing wants to come out because you have pressure in here and you need to have equal in for equal out there has to be air to replace the fluid so if you're doing this going it's not working well once you open up one of the ports on the top and air can get in as you can see then magic happens so yeah you have to have a equal in equal out air has to replace the volume that's currently being used up by the fluid well the new fluid is installed and it looks freakin amazing in fact I'm a little bit unhappy now with the orange tops on the dominator because it's such a different color it might actually end up taking my silver ones and painting them to match this more about Caltrans road cone orange color but anyway there you go guys those are the methods that I use for draining and kind of flushing my loops if I'm just doing like a distilled water flush obviously if you're gonna do a deep cleaning you need to take it apart and you need to use like any of the persistent prep or the blitz pro or whatever you're going to use to clean your system you know individually and at least per the instructions on those kits but this is nothing more than just a quick simple flush because like I said I explained in the beginning of this video that I'm doing this because we want the fluid to change color which really kind of sucks because I'm going to have to go through everything you just saw again but because we want to get to the bottom of this we want this fluid to change color that way I can send a sample of the unused fluid which is actually right here so I've got extra like I showed you that's not going to go in the system so then I can send them a sample of hey this is what the fluid is like exactly out of the bottle mixed with distilled water and then this is what the fluid is like now after getting contaminated and then they can do chemistry and science bitch and all kinds of other stuff to figure out what actually happened to the fluid which will then hopefully tell us exactly what's at fault is that the fluid is that the dye is that the radiator is it flux is it who knows is it that the nickel plating is it the the o-rings who freaking knows and until we know we can't we're just we're just kind of throwing you know pitches in the dark we don't know exactly what's happening pitches in I didn't make sense I don't know why the hell I said that but anyway I just had to say why I was doing this otherwise there have been a lot of confused people going why are you doing this when you know it's going to change color on you because my system has got he's got the plagues anyway guys time to go thanks for watching make sure you guys look in the description anyway time to go guys make sure you look in the description check out my second channel got some more car stuff coming up some vlogs and other ways to help support with Amazon and whatnot anyway time to go thanks a bunch for watching and I got to carry this 80 pound behemoth back up the stairs moving to a two-story house and putting the office upstairs was a terrible idea my back hates me but skunkworks looks awesome though I mean really you can't deny that