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MontBlanco
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After having my loop running for quiet a while now, its time for me to do a monthly maintenance. I know one of them is to top up the coolant, but after watching a guide from newegg, the guy said to tighten the fittings every month. I never heard or read about this, so is it mecessary to tighten the fittings every month?

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After having my loop running for quiet a while now, its time for me to do a monthly maintenance. I know one of them is to top up the coolant, but after watching a guide from newegg, the guy said to tighten the fittings every month. I never heard or read about this, so is it mecessary to tighten the fittings every month?

I would recommend it, because the tubing can 'shrink' and not be as tight as when you just installed it. Just tighten it to be sure. 5 minutes wont hurt you... Right?

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After having my loop running for quiet a while now, its time for me to do a monthly maintenance. I know one of them is to top up the coolant, but after watching a guide from newegg, the guy said to tighten the fittings every month. I never heard or read about this, so is it mecessary to tighten the fittings every month?

Are you talking about compression fittings needing to be tightened?

 

Or the G1/4" thread into the blocks/radiators needing tightening?

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Are you talking about compression fittings needing to be tightened?

 

Or the G1/4" thread into the blocks/radiators needing tightening?

Compression rings.

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Are you talking about compression fittings needing to be tightened?

 

Or the G1/4" thread into the blocks/radiators needing tightening?

 

 

ok?

Huh? You asked a question, I answered it...  :unsure:

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Huh? You asked a question, I answered it...  :unsure:

Sorry to be so confusing.........But you answered the question I had for MontBlanco.

 

Even if Compression rings is what he is talking about (which is most likely).

 

How do you know that? I don't see where he mentions that, it is Compression fittings

he's talking about?

 
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Sorry to be so confusing.........But you answered the question I had for MontBlanco.

 

Even if Compression rings is what he is talking about (which is most likely).

 

How do you know that? I don't see where he mentions that, it is Compression fittings

he's talking about?

 

 

Well, he was refering to a Newegg video, and there was a guy (sorry, I forgot his name) he was saying that you should tighten your compression rings every month or so.

I like the color scheme of Noctua fans. Deal with it. Forget about the bad memories of the past.


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AAHHH!  Gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up. My Bad. :(

No problem! :P

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If the compression rings don't budge dont force it either as that could cause undue stress on the actual compression fitting thread of the watercooling componant.

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