Flushing with mains water - how to connect?

[Force Gaia]

I'm new to watercooling and have been doing a lot of reasearch, using articles, youtube, etc.

 

I'm currently looking at cleaning out components before first use, and have seen the following videos by mayhems regarding their blitz system. In it they mention connecting to running mains water for flushing through.

 

My question is: how would you connect the system to the mains supply for this?

They don't show the connection to the tap, nor do they show properly the connection to the standard watercooling hose.

My taps are all mixer taps, so have no screw thread to attach any fitting to. So how would you attach to one of those?

[Jurrunio]

tap water contains minerals so it's not really the thing for flushing out a watercooling loop.

[For Science!]

Its completely okay use to use tap water for the initial rinses to clear out the bulk debris. Just need to give it a rinse with distilled water before to rinse out any residual ions.

 

It's only radiators that really need a good clean (assuming a new loop) and you can literally just put it under the sink and move the water around yourself with gravity. No real need to have it blasted constantly with water (although convinient). Fle

[Leonard]

@Force Gaia, it is fine to flush with normal tap water but depending on the quality of your tap water you do not want to connect anything of this nature directly to your tap, you can however just fill like a container and then fill the radiators and shake the tap water around, empty and repeat to flush the radiators and then do a last rinse with distilled water, empty, dry your them, yes dry them because water can get trapped in the fins and then drip on components, and then connect your radiators back to the loop and fill with your coolant of your choice and all will be fine. 

[Force Gaia]

The thing is I'm talking about cleaning system that needs a full system flush - not just radiators.

I'm not saying I'll only use tap water. What is shown in the video (see 11:45 of  second video) is the entire system connected to the mains water for 30 mins to effectively remove crap without it circulating, then finished off with distilled water.

Distilled water is not as easily available in the uk, so if i can avoid having to use more on multiple flushes, i will.

[Force Gaia]

@For Science! I just noticed that your post stopped suddenly. you started a new sentence with "Fle" but stopped. was there more you wanted to add?

[Mick Naughty]

Just make some if you cant get any. 

[W-L]

12 hours ago, Force Gaia said:

The thing is I'm talking about cleaning system that needs a full system flush - not just radiators.

I'm not saying I'll only use tap water. What is shown in the video (see 11:45 of  second video) is the entire system connected to the mains water for 30 mins to effectively remove crap without it circulating, then finished off with distilled water.

Distilled water is not as easily available in the uk, so if i can avoid having to use more on multiple flushes, i will.

That's little overkill for the loop as mostly you want to power flush the rads which hold the most gunk. In anycase they just simply plumb a tube from the faucet to a portion of the loop with the drain right back into the sink. Note you want to ensure your not running the tap a high pressure and flow.