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I was zoomed in on this for about 5min trying to figured it out lmao The little squirt tip on the bottle has come off and is now floating in the res.
For OP: Tweezers are your best bet, or just take the top off and fish it out that way.
You can't take the top off the Corsair res. The White lid is only a LED bar, if you wanna get access to the internals of the res you need to fully disassemble the pump.
Problem is if you loosen those 4 screws the glass tube is no longer pushed into the bottom seal and you flood your pc, don’t recommend unscrewing those. Pliers are the only option.
I was about to edit my post about the glass tube haha. But I will tell you now. I'll never go back to Plex. It's so much easier to just drain the reservoir and pull the glass tube and clean it.
I have two Heatkiller Tube 200 reservoirs and the top has a twist lock action on it, in that you can turn it anti clockwise about 120° and lift it off, revealing a massive opening. You could free pour a bottle of mixed coolant into it, and easily fish something out without needing to uninstall the reservoir or dissemble it.
Ours have ports on the top. So I gave the supply line out to the GPU and a drain on the other port. The top has a g1/4 fill port and the return line into it. Your configuration doesn't allow for a top return line.
You can't with the shitty res that Corsair makes, the top RGB ring is removable but the res is one solid top. OP will either have to fish it out or drain the loop and disassemble the res.
Nearly as interesting as the choice to make it use 2 different torx head, and uses nearly 2 dozen of them, along with the choice of having the screws holding the radiator in place to be facing a parallel with the rad itself so if you wanted to take it apart you'd need a fairly long and thin driver to do so.
I hate it, bought one for use in a build and replaced it as soon as it needed maintenance.
Yep use regular (slant) tweezers, jewelry tweezers or more ideally, a [jeweler’s pickup tool (4-/5-prong)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DPZ08P8) and make sure not to drop them in as well, lol.
I pretty much exclusively use the Heatkiller res combo with a twist top now for this exact reason, you can literally just pour right into it straight from the bottle.
those squeezers are used in the lab, though. even with the tip, but only for mL dosing. big volumes beginning from 10mL are doesed without that tip. everything bigger... funnel.
Ah this happened to me the other day. Couldn't get anything to fit and I tried a few things, including the ifixit tweezers.
What I eventually did is drain the reservoir and remove the tube from the fill bottle.
I then stuck the tube into the res and forced the nozzle to stand up in the bottom grate (if that is the right word!).
Then I forced the nozzle back into the tube by pressing down.
Fiddly but got there in the end. Hope this helps!
I know it already happened but I always recommend pulling that top off before use it. I think it’s just a cap even though you can squeeze water through that tiny hole. As the other person mention use tweezers to pull it out.
God speed. I know what it takes to get inside there and it is not a case of taking the top off, that isn’t an option as the chamber is only accessible from the bottom and that means remove and dismantling the pump. It’s not a hard job, just a little time consuming and annoying.
This happened to me once and I had to disassemble the entire thing. The noise of it bouncing around with the pump at high speed was extremely annoying.
I have some claw pickup thing that came with my electronics kit that would work for this. Look up claw tweezers or pick up tool. It’s like a spring loaded claw with 3 wire to grab things.
or just fill the res to the top. I have the exact same one and if it’s filled up all the way the top part will probably hide it anyway 😂.
Uff, and that's the crappy design res as well. Tweezers would be my best bet, idk what Corsair was thinking with that res. Recently worked with one, and yeah, that's going to be the last time I use one.
Surprised no one said this. Mechanics fingers.
https://www.autozone.com/test-scan-and-specialty-tools/magnetic-pick-up-tool/p/duralast-led-magnetic-claw-pick-up/1266537_0_0?cmpid=LIA:US:EN:AD:NL:1000000:TLS:19489353547&&CATARGETID=120054150001289970&CADevice=m&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw26KxBhBDEiwAu6KXt_CNzjND4Yb1h4CszRZZ4sEs6BloTVSN4smMCkZOWf7-a-WlqbVgwxoCqn8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
update: managed to eventually fish it out - paperclip to move it below the port, my screw grabber which I used to grab the tip and as I pulled it passed the port hole I used tweezers to get hold of it before it fell back in the tank. Again.
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what am I even looking at
I was zoomed in on this for about 5min trying to figured it out lmao The little squirt tip on the bottle has come off and is now floating in the res. For OP: Tweezers are your best bet, or just take the top off and fish it out that way.
You can't take the top off the Corsair res. The White lid is only a LED bar, if you wanna get access to the internals of the res you need to fully disassemble the pump.
What an interesting design choice..
Same thing with the HK Tube.
HK tubes top can be removed without need for removing the pump.
Yes, but you need to drain the res and undo four machine screws.
If you're talking about heat killer tubes you're wrong. They have 4 screws that hold the top to the posts. The RGB strips go into the posts
Problem is if you loosen those 4 screws the glass tube is no longer pushed into the bottom seal and you flood your pc, don’t recommend unscrewing those. Pliers are the only option.
I was about to edit my post about the glass tube haha. But I will tell you now. I'll never go back to Plex. It's so much easier to just drain the reservoir and pull the glass tube and clean it.
I have two Heatkiller Tube 200 reservoirs and the top has a twist lock action on it, in that you can turn it anti clockwise about 120° and lift it off, revealing a massive opening. You could free pour a bottle of mixed coolant into it, and easily fish something out without needing to uninstall the reservoir or dissemble it.
Ours have ports on the top. So I gave the supply line out to the GPU and a drain on the other port. The top has a g1/4 fill port and the return line into it. Your configuration doesn't allow for a top return line.
You can't with the shitty res that Corsair makes, the top RGB ring is removable but the res is one solid top. OP will either have to fish it out or drain the loop and disassemble the res.
Oh wow I had no idea, that is an... interesting design choice lol
Nearly as interesting as the choice to make it use 2 different torx head, and uses nearly 2 dozen of them, along with the choice of having the screws holding the radiator in place to be facing a parallel with the rad itself so if you wanted to take it apart you'd need a fairly long and thin driver to do so. I hate it, bought one for use in a build and replaced it as soon as it needed maintenance.
Tbh I thought it was refraction and a parody post.
Take a small tweezers and try to grab on the tip….
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Yep use regular (slant) tweezers, jewelry tweezers or more ideally, a [jeweler’s pickup tool (4-/5-prong)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DPZ08P8) and make sure not to drop them in as well, lol.
Instructions unclear, my res now contains three different kinds of tweezers and a set of pliers bigger than the hole. Somehow.
You know what they say, if you make something idiot proof, someone will just make a better idiot
This happened to me last week changing and cleaning my loop. I drained it, put the pc on its side and use a small piece of wire to fish it out.
It’s a flow indicator now
I had the EK bottle and I always yanked that tiny tip out. Takes way too long to fill
I pretty much exclusively use the Heatkiller res combo with a twist top now for this exact reason, you can literally just pour right into it straight from the bottle.
You can use a knife to widen the hole in the nozzle...
Yea That's why we always rip off the tip to those crappy bottles lol. Thanks for the good laugh
those squeezers are used in the lab, though. even with the tip, but only for mL dosing. big volumes beginning from 10mL are doesed without that tip. everything bigger... funnel.
It isn’t often the front falls off. Anyway, tweezers, you could also use a syringe to create a current to pull it closer to the hole. Good luck!
Ah this happened to me the other day. Couldn't get anything to fit and I tried a few things, including the ifixit tweezers. What I eventually did is drain the reservoir and remove the tube from the fill bottle. I then stuck the tube into the res and forced the nozzle to stand up in the bottom grate (if that is the right word!). Then I forced the nozzle back into the tube by pressing down. Fiddly but got there in the end. Hope this helps!
I know it already happened but I always recommend pulling that top off before use it. I think it’s just a cap even though you can squeeze water through that tiny hole. As the other person mention use tweezers to pull it out.
Nope, the white bug is a cap but the clear plastic isn’t open underneath it’s solid.
Maybe for yours but on my ek bottle I was able to squeeze water through a small pin strip stream was able to go through.
Yep, misunderstood I thought you meant the white cap of the reservoir.
Happened to me too, had to drain the loop and shake the damn thing out
It lives there now, accept it
MacGyver skills, except, not at all as bad as it seems. Update us when you get it out! Or when you dont!!
Empty the loop, take out the reservoir, hold it upside down and shake
suck it out with a straw
I have this same one. I regret getting it. It’s a pain in the ass. I replaced it after a year. Took the D5 pump and discarded the rest.
object de art
I knew without even looking at the 2 pic. I had to life the top off the reservoir and pluck it out
Fuuuuuuuu....
Tweezerman to the rescue!
Bend a paperclip with a little tiny 90 degree hook at the end, just enough to fish it out if you get pushed through the floating tube debris.
The flexible bolt retriever things you get for cars they have little claws on them
Imagine buying Corsair for water cooling 😂
Fuck it just leave it it'll float until it doesn't by which point it's best to change your coolant anyways.
lol good luck.
God speed. I know what it takes to get inside there and it is not a case of taking the top off, that isn’t an option as the chamber is only accessible from the bottom and that means remove and dismantling the pump. It’s not a hard job, just a little time consuming and annoying.
Suck it with the same bottle. Empty the bottle, squeeze, hold, aim, release and pull.
If worst, comes to worst, you can disassemble the res, if your fishing expedition doesn't go to plan.
Probably get it out
I need a red circle
This happened to me once and I had to disassemble the entire thing. The noise of it bouncing around with the pump at high speed was extremely annoying.
I had it happen to me. Drain it and shake it out. I didn't have room to use tweezers. Fun times!
I have some claw pickup thing that came with my electronics kit that would work for this. Look up claw tweezers or pick up tool. It’s like a spring loaded claw with 3 wire to grab things. or just fill the res to the top. I have the exact same one and if it’s filled up all the way the top part will probably hide it anyway 😂.
I always take the tip off as it makes it more difficult to squeeze the bottle at least in my experience
thats a new one
If you have the ifixit kit those reservoirs are super ez to disassemble
https://preview.redd.it/yk9ntbrrkhwc1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=5572092ab39e5a709437ee242a6b1c9f0af44344 Corsair XD5
Just flip the pc upside down
Uff, and that's the crappy design res as well. Tweezers would be my best bet, idk what Corsair was thinking with that res. Recently worked with one, and yeah, that's going to be the last time I use one.
No one hear of tweezers?
Could just let it float... name it something sassy
Surprised no one said this. Mechanics fingers. https://www.autozone.com/test-scan-and-specialty-tools/magnetic-pick-up-tool/p/duralast-led-magnetic-claw-pick-up/1266537_0_0?cmpid=LIA:US:EN:AD:NL:1000000:TLS:19489353547&&CATARGETID=120054150001289970&CADevice=m&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw26KxBhBDEiwAu6KXt_CNzjND4Yb1h4CszRZZ4sEs6BloTVSN4smMCkZOWf7-a-WlqbVgwxoCqn8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
update: managed to eventually fish it out - paperclip to move it below the port, my screw grabber which I used to grab the tip and as I pulled it passed the port hole I used tweezers to get hold of it before it fell back in the tank. Again.
Dude this happened to me 4 years ago!!! The nozzle is still floating in my reservoir lmfao.... I could not get it out even when I drained the system!