Alphacool Eisbecher Plexi Tube 60x105mm cracking?? wtf

Morgoth · Sunday at 8:28 PM

man i just noticed my loop was leaking and looks like the acrylic glas is literly cracking. second time to.. gotten a new replacement part back in 2022.. wats going on???

ir_cow · Sunday at 8:49 PM

Both mine are cracked too, but haven't leaked yet. Pretty common with tubes. Something about the warm water in contrast to the ambient temp causes it? It was explained to me once and I don't remembers exactly. Just fill the gap with glue.

Morgoth · Sunday at 8:54 PM

i was thinking could it not be the weight of the pump and resovair on the support bracked making the acrylic crack???

Ruru · Sunday at 9:01 PM

Mine has small cracks on the middle of the tube, can't even feel them on a fingernail though.

edit: Mine is from 2018 if that matters.

Shihab · Sunday at 9:13 PM

ir_cow said:
Both mine are cracked too, but haven't leaked yet. Pretty common with tubes. Something about the warm water in contrast to the ambient temp causes it? It was explained to me once and I don't remembers exactly. Just fill the gap with glue.

You mean https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/thermal-fatigue ?

Dunno. This kind of failure in a component meant to convey heat in only 2 years sounds like bad engineering to me.

ir_cow · Sunday at 9:20 PM

Shihab said:
You mean https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/thermal-fatigue ?

Dunno. This kind of failure in a component meant to convey heat in only 2 years sounds like bad engineering to me.

Well every tube from every brand has cracked on me over the last 20 years. Needs to be much thicker or it will continue to happen. Same goes with Distroplates if they are thin, it cracks. *Cough Bitspower Cough*. My solution is just to seal the crack with glue.

Shihab · Sunday at 9:26 PM

ir_cow said:
Well every tube from every brand has cracked on me over the last 20 years. Needs to be much thicker or it will continue to happen. Same goes with Distroplates if they are thin, it cracks. *Cough Bitspower Cough*. My solution is just to seal the crack with glue.

I figured it was common thing from your first post. My statement was for the market in general.
(Then again, one would be hard pressed to find any product that doesn't break after a week of use these days...)

Morgoth · Sunday at 9:41 PM

any one knows if there is a aluminium version avaible???

Ruru · Sunday at 10:24 PM

Morgoth said:
any one knows if there is a aluminium version avaible???

I'd just switch the reservoir. Going to get an Alphacool Eisstation for that DDC pump as it's way more compact than the Eisbecher.

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Alphacool Eisbecher Plexi Tube 60x105mm cracking?? wtf

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