Re: Water Cooling

[Chris Albertson <chrisja@jps.net>]

One thing to think about is building a coolant plumbing system to
the same specs as your home's water supply plumbing.  There is a
reason they don't plumb houses is vinyl tubing and plastic barbed
hose fittings, they leak, or will leak.  Building codes call for
metallic tubing (copper) or pipe (iron) clamped to supports
at intervals and catch basins or pans
with drains led to the outside under anything that can leak (like a
hot water heater)  If you have a system setup outdoors or a
temporary lab type setup I'd use plastic but if it were permanently
installed inside a house or office I'd go for copper tubing
with soldered joints and safety catch basins that could either
contain or route away a worst case leak.  It's not much harder
to do this as there are many "last a lifetime" fittings at
places like Home Depot like those stainless steel braid covered
hoses with 1/2 inch pipe thread connectors that cost only a few
bucks.  


> On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 20:20:24 -0600, Tom Droege <droege@wwa.com> wrote:
> *>You all must think that nothing ever happens here but disaster.  Lots of
> *>things wofk.  It is just that it is no fun to report something that works.
> *>
> *>Tonight we were watching Wall Street Week, and I was attempting to take the
> *>big step focus run for Andrew.  We heard a drip, drip, drip.  By the time
> *>we got up to the tower the whole gallon jug of anti-freeze mix was
>
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