Has anyone tried to fix a leaky radiator in a CW-3000 or similar cooler?

mcdanlj
Sun, 03 Oct 2021 19:10:44 +0000
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(While I was cutting that, my CW-3000 water cooler for my spindle started to leak, so now I guess I need to take it apart and figure out what’s leaking and put it back together.)

I kind of hoped it was one of the tubes being loose and just needing one of the many fittings tightened, but as one might reasonably guess, it’s the radiator.

It really sucks water through when it’s running, but leaks only a little bit when it isn’t.

I’m running it intermittently while doing some light cuts, to try to keep enough water in it.

I now understand that it is massive overkill for this spindle, so for the moment instead of repairing it I think I’ll look at @Eclsnowman’s approach and use a CPU cooler instead.

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