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when you invite an animal as exotic as my oil-cooled workstation into your life you invite potential problems so while I was extremely disappointed to see that spot had left an oil patch on my desk from a leak that formed near the seam in the back when the system was roughly handled during our move I knew what I was getting into when I built an oil cooled PC so let's make lemons out of this life that lemonade something oil cool rig maintenance video time the mastercase 5 by Coolermaster gives you the freedom to truly make your mid-tower pc case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories check out the link in the video description to learn more step 1 is to identify the cause of the leak be it a crack or a fail bond at a joint between two pieces of acrylic if it's a very very slow leak like mine the temptation to just put a drip pan under it and call it a day will be pretty strong but small drips can turn into gallons of oil all over your floor very quickly with all of that pressure on them so I recommend finding a helper putting your system on a plank that you don't care about and moving it to a suitable place for repairs as soon as possible step 2 is to prepare your workspace for the tank itself garbage bags are a cheap spill proof cover material for the table and floor where you're working but I'd recommend also creating a ridge around the outside of the area and or pairing them with cardboard or newspaper to absorb excess spilled oil in case it drips off of the edges of your bags you'll also need a place to put the internal computer components my system can hang off of the edge of a large collection bin but you might need to come up with your own creative solution here whatever it is you do make sure that you've got lots of garbage bags and lots of paper towels on hand step 3 lift the system out of the oil we gave it a good 60 seconds for oil to drip from the video card power supply and heatsink fins before picking it up resting it on a bin to collect the waste oil you can let it go for longer but if your plan is to let all the oil come off this way then be prepared to wait for literally days at this stage the tank is ready to be emptied or if there's nothing wrong with your tank and you're just performing some system maintenance removing stickers with failed adhesive swapping up memory sticks etc then you can do that now step 4 it's time to prepare two basins one for rocks and accessories and the other to capture the rest of the oil from the machine if you're going to reuse the oil like me then it's a really good idea at this point to clean out the container before pouring oil into it mineral oil is a great cleaner and solvent in and of itself and will pick up all kinds of dust and grime from anything that it touches so unless you want that junk floating around in front of your video card do a really good job of this then depending on what kind of container you're using a funnel might come in handy here as well something I really wish we'd thought of when we originally built this machine so make sure you clean that too if you're not planning to reuse the oil please contact a local waste management depot or failing that ask an automotive shop where they take their oil to be disposed of correctly step 5 pouring the oil out and removing the rocks when it comes time to dump the oil I'd recommend changing into clothes that you don't care about assuming you haven't already mineral oil can be very difficult to get out of clothing and again if you haven't already I'd recommend removing any jewelry and throwing on some gloves because it is about to get messy now to be clear mineral oil isn't particularly harmful and is actually present in many cosmetics and household items not to mention its usefulness as a laxative but it's extremely slippery so getting it all over yourself isn't recommended either find a muscly armed young gentleman to help you avoid throwing out your back while you pour out the oil into your collection Basin for step 6 now that the tanks empty we can get a better look at the damage while our earlier inspection of the leak revealed that the oil was only seeping out at the very bottom there are actually numerous hairline fractures in the adhesive holding together the joint at the back of our tank these were probably caused by the vibration from transporting the system in the back of a u-haul so I forgot for a minute that I should be driving really really slow because things are only somewhat secured in the back look at this guy not letting me get what a check house so it's time to patch him up as best we can with the repair guide that was sent to me by John from Puget 1 wipe down the surfaces to be repaired there's no need to get every last bit of oil off mineral is actually what they use to clean the surfaces before welding but in our case because there was no single obvious crack I actually needed to clean it quite well to see what was going on - if you can identify the crack drill a small hole like the smallest bit you have at the edges of the crack to keep it from spreading any further for us however because these micro cracks are actually between the overlapped pieces of the main tank we're just going to have to rely on the wicking abilities of our weld on acrylic adhesive to fill in those gaps next well we apply the acrylic adhesive with the application bottle and needle then leave that for an hour to cure finally we apply this completely not dangerous sounding stuff over the cracked area the same way that you would apply caulking to a seal in your bathroom then allow it 24 hours to cure step 7 is to come back to it the next day and just kind of visually inspect our caulking along the bottom end up the seam in the middle make sure it seems like it's evenly distributed and then once that's done all that's left is the usual you know oil PC stuff so we were able to put the rocks back in spreading them out and then basically just dumped the oil in doing this more slowly would have helped me avoid plunging my arm into the tank to reposition the rocks and decorations but honestly I was kind of in a hurry to get this video films by that point so Yolo and then with that finished it was time to submerge the system itself carry it back upstairs and power it on successfully even yay worked so overall I'd say that with a helper adequate time thanks to my laptop it's not a huge deal for my desktop to be out of commission for a day for repairs and with a suitable workspace the results were satisfactory the leak is now sealed and what'll PC maintenance was not as bad as I thought but it still doesn't change my original recommendation at the end of the oil PC bill blog that most people should stay away from it unless they want to go through this kind of a process every time their PC stops running like a well-oiled machine speaking of running like a well-oiled machine it seems like without fail every time there's a power bank deal to be had on Linus tech tips hero is the one providing it and they are kicking off some Black Friday deals as well as introducing a few new products into their power plus three lineup so the full details of the Black Friday deals are going to be available at the link in the video description but in the meantime we've got the power plus three premium here featuring twenty thousand one hundred million powers of capacity with three output ports through which you can simultaneously charge three devices with a total output amperage of 4.4 amps and a maximum of 3 amps per port you can actually even charge a new MacBook if you have their USB a 2 type C adapter cable with the estimated time to full charge being four and a half hours also announced is their power plus three mini with a 6700 milliamp power battery and the power plus three stick they haven't actually specified the size of the battery in it but they do say it charges the iPhone 6 1 so we can assume it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 1800 milliamp hours for deals on these and many other cheero products check out the link in the video description below so that's pretty much it guys thanks for watching if this video sucked you know where that button is but I am hit it twice wait will that undo it I hope it does hit it twice but if the video was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop at Amazon instructions up there buying a cool shirt like this one or with a direct monthly contribution actually on the subject of a cool shirt like oh no nevermind we didn't bring back this design I thought I was wearing a different shirt ok um so now that you've done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so check out that button in the top right corner to check out our channel super fun video where we just with each other you thing goes like swegway hoverboard things in full medieval armor it's freaking sick