About 2 Months ago I switched from ice water to glycol in my chiller. I had a bad start to the day one morning recently when I discovered that a rubber cooling line feeding one of the tanks from the fixed lines had burst.
I lost about 900 litres of coolant before the pump eventually blew a fuse.
I replaced the hose and noticed that it was really cracked and pitted. Admittedly it wasn't the newest of hoses but I was surprised.
The wife of a friend of mine who is head nurse in a surgical ward remarked that they only use silicon hose on all cooling mashines due to the aggresive action of glycol.
Is this a well known problem?
What kind of hoses are recommended - silicon rubber seem a little unpractical to me.
Would be interested to hear what the experience is out there.
I lost about 900 litres of coolant before the pump eventually blew a fuse.
I replaced the hose and noticed that it was really cracked and pitted. Admittedly it wasn't the newest of hoses but I was surprised.
The wife of a friend of mine who is head nurse in a surgical ward remarked that they only use silicon hose on all cooling mashines due to the aggresive action of glycol.
Is this a well known problem?
What kind of hoses are recommended - silicon rubber seem a little unpractical to me.
Would be interested to hear what the experience is out there.
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