O noes! leaks!

I have leaks in my watercooling setup. I know where the leak is and why it leaks. It's on the plastic screw-on piece that goes onto the waterblock (barbs). It leaks because I never put on any teflon tape on the threads bc I didn't know that you needed to put it on there like that.

I can't remove the barbs to put tape on it now for two reasons. one: I don't have money for more fluid, and the job of keeping the fluid in the system would be a challenge rewuiring help, and draining it myself would be a huge fiasco.

I also coated the outside of the block (where the leak is, around the exposed screw-on portion) with epoxy pipe sealant (the putty kind you knead).

I thought it was going to fic the leak, but it is still leaking. Very very slowly, but still leaking. One drop maybe every 6-12 hours drips off.

Possible solutions include just leaving it and resting a piece of cardboard and cloth on my video card to catch the slow drip of fluid, not using the computer (not a good solution), or going to the hardware store and spending $$$ on more putty sealant.

Any help?

You could drain the fluid into a pail. Also duct tape works great fro stuff like this.

aah yes, I COULD drain it into a bucket or some form of pail-type container. Hmm....I'll keep that in mind.

In the meantime, considering removing all of this caulk epoxy is going to be trouble and a half (if not impossible) I'm going to see if it leaks sitting still (not on right now) and I'm going to rig up a piece of cardboard and paper above my video card to absorb the fluid that drips. shouldn't be too much, but still.

This winter (christmas) I'll take the box home and hack at it softly with a metal pick. then use teflon tape around the screw joints if possible (if I can get them unscrewed that is).

Any other ideas for the interim? cardboard above the video card doesn't seem like a very good idea, considering this box may be moved for LAN parties (I suppose I could remove the video card and position the case so it'll leak away from the mobo while transporting)

Depending if the leak is on a bend where u could make a mini pail consisting of a paper clip and a medicine measuring cup. A picture could help.

I looked closer and it's leaking around all of the epoxy seal I put in. The edges of it are all tinted blue, so I'm fairly sure that chunk of sealant didn't do shit.

dont risk running pc like that. id remove the plumbing from pc case to prevent drips falling on components. you dont wanna turn it on with water shorting out stuff.

even after removing all plumbing thouroughly inspect all components for water.

can you use brass barbs? heaps of sizes available at hose fitting stores and some tool/hardware stores. definitely use steel clamps. you can get clamps that are smooth on the inside so they wont cut into the tubing.

it's nonconductive fluid, and it's only leaking from the waterblock. I plugged the leak coming from the reservoir, and there isn't a leak from the pump or radiator.

I'm pretty sure it messed up the video cards because it managed to get under the heatsink, which probably was slightly capacitive and corrupted a bit of the GPU.

Just check to make sure. If u have to add another rma to the long list

yeah, but I only have 15 days to return this video card to newegg (open box). gotta test it.