Gadgetory

okay guys so if you've noticed now everything is in all the clamps are on the loop is all put together and unmounted the reservoir for two reasons I don't like to leave a full time fill port going on here or a tube to the top of the case but what I like to do is I like to remove this from the bracket and bring it outside of the case so it's easier to work with it's one reason why I have it routed the way I do is because look at all this slack that I've got right here but I also take off the fill plug on the top which is this guy right here and I take a spare half inch barb and just hand tight against the o-ring and then I'll take some spare tube I'll put it on the barb here zip tie it so we don't get any leaks and what this does is this then allows me to get a fill port that's at the highest point of the loop because the easiest way you're going to bleed is to have the opening to the atmosphere or the opening to the outside of the loop being above the highest point of the loop so this is what I'm doing now we're getting ready to do our fill and leak test alright so when you fill this you're going to want to fill slowly because unfortunately my reservoir here only has one fill port on the top instead of two which would have kind of helped as you replace air in this system with coolant the air has to escape and the only way it has to escape is through the same port that you're filling so what's going to happen here is you're going to see a really neat spiral effect you're going to see only a trickle of coolant coming out of here as it's replacing liquid with air so it's an exchange process that's happening here Swift tech I doubt you're watching but if you ever are watching at a second port to this that we can loosen up kind of like a bleed port on a car because then the air has a place to go and the coolant can exchange a lot faster and make life a whole lot easier or indeed get a little guy here on YouTube telling you how to do your Jeff looks like I want looks like something wipe your butt with it thanks for that all right moment of truth little bits of time just a little bit because you also don't want to get coolant trapped in this tube because you overfilled because guess what you have to detach the tube that's another mess that you have to deal with so what I'm going to do now is I'm only going to fill it enough to get the very bottom plug completely filled that way I can make sure that the very first Junction I have right here is not leaking and so far we're gonna let the colors they're waiting for it to start leaking oh and there it is where I'm skinny because I don't want to waste any this I've barely got enough to fill this loop so if you see a leak seriously tell me alright okay so now that we've gone ahead and filled this up you'll notice here that the level pretty much stopped even with this bar because what's happening now is we have air trapped in here and this is the Barb and the tube that leads to the lower radiator so this is not going to be able to rise anymore until two things happen we've got to get the air out of the system and we've got to start filling up this lower radiator so what I'm doing here is I'm just taking one of my 650 watt power supplies and I did this guys with a 300 watt like $15 unit that came in a free one that comes with a case you can do it with that one to plug it into power but you have to make sure that it has a switch one of the see on the toggle switches on the back that allow you to turn it on and off and you take a paperclip this is the old junction trick here you take a paperclip cut it bend it in half and you jump her together on the 24 pin connector the green wire there's only one green wire of all 24 pins is only one green wire and a black wire there's one on either side doesn't matter which one so you're going to take it you're going to you're going to put it right in the end right there so what happens when you jumper these two is you're actually jump ring what's considered the power switch on the front of your PC to a ground which then will enable the switch on the back of the power supply here let me show you that this one has a switch right here and on/off and allows you to be able to turn the power supply unit on and off with the rear switch okay so now we're going to do to get some of this air out and get some of that replacement fluid is we're just going to slowly flip on and off the power supply and fortunately because I have a variable speed pump when we get this more full one of the ways that we can help move air out of the radiators because the upper radiator is where all the water or the air is going to want to go I can turn the speed up and down so and that will help slosh some of the fluid to help get the air moving tipping and tilting the case is another way to do that so we're going to do now is we're just going to flip it on and you can see the water level dropped and came back up but you notice now it's a little bit lower than where it was now I want you guys to hear the sound that this makes as it starts to pull an air with the fluid that sound is bad so once you hear that you want to make sure that you stop using your pump but you saw a lot of bubbles come out of there right now so this is the process that we're just going to keep repeating we're going to fill it up till it gets to this upper bar right here in the reservoir because that's where the air is gonna make its way out and we repeat the process this is very tedious it will take a while must have patience if you use your water cooling loop with air in it you will overheat something we now have cool trapped in here to see that yep one of the things too that would really help is if you guys understand how hydraulics work because there's pressure here and this tube was filled you'll notice on that last blip of the power supply as this level went down water was then drop a fluid was then drawn in because it finally made room for the air to get out as air goes out the equal amount of fluid goes in it's all about volumetric pressure and the actual volume of the system itself so that's why you have to be very patient and be careful you don't overfill this like I mentioned earlier because you will have as FPSRussia says very bad bait one way to make bleeding a little bit faster and a little bit easier is while the pump is running just slowly tilt your case in each direction you can see some bubbles just came out right there because as you create an uneven surface and you force the air to move the pump will take over and it will push any bubbles that are in the system out you don't need to do any extreme tilting you know gravity and is a bitch when it comes to air and it looks like we're doing pretty good I mean the water level dropped it good I'd say half inch just from those couple of tilts so just keep that process going keep adding fluid as necessary and after a while the bubbles will work themselves out this is the part where you have to be patient and you can't rush things well there is that's a fully built custom loop we're bled we're letting it run right now checking for any leaks that we may have you want to let this run I personally am very gutsy I've never let this thing run for more than a half hour before giving it power letting budda some people recommend a 24 hour leak test if you're using the right materials using the right kind of clamps and you've got a good seal it's very unlikely that a sip a leak will develop in 24 hours it's my personal opinion you know I'm not saying anybody else is wrong but here it is it's all put together it's very simple honestly in my opinion the most complicated part is bleeding it and that's where a lot of people make their mistakes so we have any questions about this water cooling bill and there's more you want to know just put it down in the comments I'll be great - I'll be sure to answer that and I'm sure there's a lot of people who know about water cooling willing to come in and give advice too so that's been Jays two cents custom water-cooling built now we're going to throw this thing back together and get to gaming because I am just dying to see how this water cooling does