Water Cooler Coolant

**Hellfire** · Moderator Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3385

Ok, for water cooling units, can you use Car anti-freeze? It's Anti-Freeze and Anti-Rust as well.

Thoughts?

dadx2mj · Posted: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:29:50 Post Subject:

I have often wondered the same thing myself. Especially since the coolant that came with the Big Water kit I have looks and smells just like anti freeze. I know I have read people using it in the past but cant remember if they had good or bad results.

**Jason** · Posted: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:49:35 Post Subject:

I saw an article today where they used Zerex... Google that.

Shadowsilence · Posted: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:23:00 Post Subject:

I'm sure you can use anti-freeze, but you'd still want to make it a 50/50 mixture. Anti-freeze isn't as much a coolant as it is a lubricant/anti-rust additive. Not to mention the obvious anti-freeze part.

**Jason** · Posted: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:30:01 Post Subject:

- FOX's new bonanza includes a link to what I was talking about:

http://www.bigbruin.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6733&highlight=

I thought it was the car antifreeze Zerex... Oops.

FOX · Posted: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:46:26 Post Subject:

lol im bored at work
.....i was going to post more but i thought it wouldnt be a good idea to wipe todays stuff off the 1st page... ill do that tomorrow hehe

Evil_spork · Rated R Joined: 29 Aug 2003 Posts: 65

distilled water. antifreeze is a very poor conductor of heat. at least in this situation.

distilled water + zerex or some kind of addative. actually antifreeze works for that. 10:1 distilled water to antifreeze will keep electralasis of the metals away and keep algae from growing while still keeping the properties of water(which you want)