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On Jan 25, 2007, at 12:49 PM, Warren Kumari wrote: The main issue with Flourinert is price -- I wanted some to cool a 20W IR laser -- I didn't spend that much time looking before I just decided to switch to distilled water, but I was finding prices like >$300 for a 1 liter bottle (http://www.parallax-tech.com/ fluorine.htm). I did find some cheaper "recycled" Fluorinert, but it wasn't *that* much cheaper. Doh, 10 seconds after hitting send it occurred to me that some sort of Internet search thingie might help with this -- looking for "liquid disconnect" found them for me -- http://www.micromatic.com/ draft-keg-beer/fittings-pid-60600.html -- even better, it seems that after your datacenter shuts down you can reuse the connectors for your daft keg! :-) W -- very similar to the air hose connectors on air compressors -- there is a nipple that snaps into a female connector. The nipple pushes in a pin when it snaps in and allows the liquid to start flowing. When you disconnect the connector the liquid flow shuts off and you get maybe half a teaspoon of leakage.
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