problem of watercooling Evaporation

[Bigga Lexx]

Hi friends,
Recently i have used the Big Water 745. For coolant i use a mix of stock coolant and Koolance coolant. i have noticed the level went down a little less than centimeter in my reservoir but enough so you could notice. you can lightly smell the coolant in the room . i am wondering if its evaporating from the radiator as its passing through. And yes i leaked checked and its fine, especially since the rad. is above my power strips and the other connections are right near my hardware, so i definitely would know if there was a leak. So what to do?

[Omari]

Normally when a substance goes from a solid to a liquid it expands 1000x so i would imagine that it would be possible for the vaporised cooling liquid to escape even if the liquid coolant is not leaking, and since you can smell it something must be getting out.

Two things that i can think of off the top of my head that might help

1. Keep the coolent as cold as possible, so that less of it evaporates.
   
2. You can get a electrical tape, but it doesn't stick to anything that you wrap around screw threads on taps etc before you screw anything onto them to might the joint tighter.

I Have never even seen water cooling on PC's in real life

[Bigga Lexx]

ok, i Thought that the heat thing is a big issue because when the coolant goes into the radiator it is about 34-36C so... I will look into the tape as it does make sense.

so i would just put the tape where the tubes meet the radiator and what not?

[JAMES_911]

Hey, The tape being referred to is plumbers tape. I don't know if electrical tape would do or not, but plumbers tape is made specifically for applications to seal water. Alternatively, use of silicone grease on the barbs will make it easier to slide the tubes on while providing a more water tight seal. Of course, some small clamps from your hardware store might be in order to make sure things don't slide off too easily.