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White spots in tubing (acrylic)

Just finished my first water cooled build. Being quite new I have no idea of what has happened. In some of the tubing white spots have appeared all over the tube (see images). They are not floating around, none are in the CPU/GPU blocks or the reservoir. Strange thing is that they are only in two of the tubes. Different packages so not the same tube. Everything is from EKWB if that matters. As the title says the tubing is acrylic.

Did I not clean the tubes properly? Do I have to replace them or just disassemble and fix or just leave it? 

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Flush the loop with pure distilled water, radiators might be dirty?

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If you look at this image set (specifically the fourth picture) http://imgur.com/a/dzNuR you will see it looks pretty close to your issue. Always flush your radiators even if the manufacturer says "ready to be installed" or "pre flushed" do it with heated distilled water, tap might be okay but I would not risk it.

 

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2 minutes ago, LeapFrogMasterRace said:

If you look at this image set (specifically the fourth picture) http://imgur.com/a/dzNuR you will see it looks pretty close to your issue. Always flush your radiators even if the manufacturer says "ready to be installed" or "pre flushed" do it with heated distilled water, tap might be okay but I would not risk it.

 

I did not flush the rads, no. So dismantling and flushing with distilled water is the solution in other words. There goes my weekend.

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33 minutes ago, FIux1 said:

 

I did not flush the rads, no. So dismantling and flushing with distilled water is the solution in other words. There goes my weekend.

You can clean out the loops and flush the rads using regular tap water just be sure to do a few final rinses with distilled to ensure it removes any minerals or contaminates left by the tap water.

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I post this a lot, but power flush the rads.  Hot tap water, cheapie submersible fountain pump:

 

 

 

Then just fill and drain a couple times with distilled and it's squeaky clean.

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