[Amps] water cooled...

[Will Matney]

David,

To me, what I think is needed is something that makes the coolent absorb heat more. We have to remember that ethylene glycol and other anti-freeze products are only for just that, keep it from freezing in the winter months. Any addative to help with cooling would need to make the coolent abosrb more heat than straight water itself. This I'm not sure about as I am no chemist by any means. I do know that water is the standard all around coolent though. Adding some form of salts as I mentioned earlier would help it not boil off too easy, but you have a thick mess which hardens up when no heat is there to keep it thinned. When I was doing the gun bluing, the bath has to come to a boil at 280 deg F. for regular steel and 290 deg F for a nickel steel. Using a thermometer, I had to watch that the boiling bubbles appeared right at one of those temperatures. If it was unser, I added more salts, over I added more water. Any chemists could probably nail it right off.

Best,

Will

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On 3/6/05 at 4:47 AM David Kirkby wrote:

>Barrie Smith wrote:
>
>>As long as this subject is being beaten:
>>
>>There is a product sold for automobile use, where over-heating is a
>problem, 
>>called "water wetter".
>>
>>Instructions say that it will improve the heat-transfer of the
>water-coolant 
>>to the block/radiator.
>>
>>Some time ago I tried the product in a big engine I had installed in a
>small 
>>car.  Can't say that it made any difference in my case, but it was
>supposed 
>>to, at least according to the manufacturer.
>>
>>Anyone have a clue as to what this stuff is, or does?
>>
>>Barrie, W7ALW 
>>
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>Does a detergent not wet water more, by reducing surface tension? Not 
>that I think it makes the slightest difference, but then some people by 
>magnets to put on their fues lines to give them 20% better fuel economy. 
>I would argue it lowers their economy by 0.00001%, as the car now weighs 
>more!
>
>
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