KY Jelly Cooled PC

[ortizimo]

When I was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, I took some courses with the Marines Corps Communication-Electronics School (I was Air Force). During a course the instructor told us that KY jelly was invented by NASA to cool off their rockets, shuttles, etc... I cannot find any information to confirm that, but since I've seen you guys build mineral oil and liquid rigs why not test KY jelly and see if it works!

[Slottr]

Isn't KY water based

[Tamesh16]

what in the world 

i dont think so 

mineral oil works because it has a high heat capacity, like water 

Ky jelly would be too viscous to cause turbulence, and thus heat transfer would be abominable 

[Jtalk4456]

6 minutes ago, ortizimo said:

When I was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, I took some courses with the Marines Corps Communication-Electronics School (I was Air Force). During a course the instructor told us that KY jelly was invented by NASA to cool off their rockets, shuttles, etc... I cannot find any information to confirm that, but since I've seen you guys build mineral oil and liquid rigs why not test KY jelly and see if it works!

your instructor lied to you, sorry

[Tamesh16]

also based on some rough google searches, it seems, it was used for high temperature lubrication, and not cooling per say

[ortizimo]

25 minutes ago, Tamesh16 said:

what in the world 

i dont think so 

mineral oil works because it has a high heat capacity, like water 

Ky jelly would be too viscous to cause turbulence, and thus heat transfer would be abominable 

once heated the product becomes less viscous...its thick because its in a bottle at room temperature and not even that...its always at store A/C temp. additionally, there are other types of the same product that are more liquid. besides, the episode Chilling Threadripper 2, Linus used Rain-X to chill a CPU...it contains among other things glycerine and glycol.

[Tamesh16]

3 hours ago, ortizimo said:

once heated the product becomes less viscous...its thick because its in a bottle at room temperature and not even that...its always at store A/C temp. additionally, there are other types of the same product that are more liquid. besides, the episode Chilling Threadripper 2, Linus used Rain-X to chill a CPU...it contains among other things glycerine and glycol.

yeah sure but again its not as viscous, even if  the viscosity changes to a usable amount at like 60-80 Celsius ,what advantage does it give over water

the reason linus uses rain x is because it works well at low temperatures 

[aisle9]

I enjoy coating my rocket in KY jelly prior to liftoff.