How do you dispose of liquid coolant?

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MisfitJoker

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I am trying to learn more about water cooling since I plan on saving money up for my first custom loop and I like to plan out everything ahead of time. When you clean your system every 9 months or so, do you just reuse the same coolant if it looks good? or do you toss it somewhere and fill it up with new coolant?

I would like to use Mayhem Sunset yellow coolant in my build if that helps answer my question,
 
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I use plain distilled water with some anti-microbial additive. Gallon of distilled water at the local grocery store is like $0.80 and the anti-microbial drops were about $5 and I've had them for 5 years and used them quite a few times.

Plain water also performs the best over coolants as the more pure the water/coolant, the better the thermal transfer. 'Additives' technically end up being insulators in some form or another.
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The coolant is cheap enough that you are better off using fresh when it comes time to renew it, also that particular coolant isnt safe to go down the drain so will need disposing off safely at the nearest place to you that deals with chemicals etc.
 
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I use plain distilled water with some anti-microbial additive. Gallon of distilled water at the local grocery store is like $0.80 and the anti-microbial drops were about $5 and I've had them for 5 years and used them quite a few times.

Plain water also performs the best over coolants as the more pure the water/coolant, the better the thermal transfer. 'Additives' technically end up being insulators in some form or another.
 
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