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hey everyone I am joined by a thermal Mike from Thermaltake we're here in their offices so Mike's gonna show us how to do a bend and a tube for an openly liquid cooling setup I have not done one of these before we worked a lot with the AI OS as you've all seen but open-loop is something that I'm still need to so I was hoping you could give us an overview of how it all works oh I am definitely very excited that you guys are here and definitely really cool to be able to give you the opportunity to you know do some hard - bidding so yeah like you know this is a PE TG tubing you know pretty durable stuff you're not gonna really run into issues with this but it is also very pliable so being able to mold and shape this to give a really cool design for your next liquid cold PC so what do we have here just soap water so yeah this is just basically you know regular soap nothing special with water works real good because it helps prevent the evaporation of the water inside so there is a reason for it right you can't use other stuff but this cleans up the best and usually usually pretty clean up so it definitely serves a couple of purposes so I have my insert that I put in here this is a specific insert designed for this tubing it's real important because if the insert doesn't fit right you go to bend this it's gonna gap out you know you could have some weird misshapen bends and stuff so getting the right insert for the tube is definitely number one now that we have this here we're just gonna start off with like we'll do a simple 90 bent sure got our heat gun again nothing special I mean I got this on the sale right you know using the coupon you know getting the good heat gun that's a heat gun you're just warming up the tube so that it becomes malleable I guess yeah so as I spin this as you see here I just slightly rotating it kind of you think about you know you're cooking dinner you know you just keep rotating it getting even heat same with like the height here 1500 watts so it gets pretty hot I do run it on the higher setting okay mostly because I've done this a lot right so you know it's kind of just from your feel and you can see I'm starting to get see you starting to get a little wiggle this will just start softening up here and you don't want to go too far but you do want to get enough so you know you'll get a nice good Bend so how do you know when to stop a lot of it's just you know that the you know the flexibility that I start to see in it you were like oh okay because I can just be like boom and just be like 90 degree Bend you know if I need to do like a 45 or something and then we also have you know of course our our bending kit here this is our thermal take hard to bending kit I got it fixed on my little board so you know before this cools let's just kind of get this set in here i mighta took a little too long for that but for the most part this will give you basically that perfect 90 bend every time that's what a lot of people look for so that way everything's uniform you know and you get those nice straight bitchin lines everybody's looking for you know and I mean it's it's pretty quick I mean a lot of this stuff you know it's still a little warm to the touch but not too bad and then it it'll stay rigid like this once it cools I mean it's gonna be solid I mean I've done some crazy stuff you know spelling out letters you know just doing other little bends that you can do from short little pieces you know just going from rad to the water block or doing bigger runs you know from grand stuff you know where you get some pretty crazy shapes so a lot of this will be done here this will be like our first Bend that we'll have and then you know definitely important to is that once you're done you know make sure you'll remove your you know your silicone insert because if this dries inside here and you got some wicked bends going on it'd be really hard to get out especially if you started to do something a little romantic it's so yeah this is kind of the entry level like a 90-degree Bend let's get you a fresh and do I'm excited this so this kit you've got what are the other options here you have a 180 and a 360 so so say you have a you get it you get a 360 you get the 90 and the 45 or 135 and then the 180 so your horseshoe shapes you know your standard 90s and 45s that are more traditional a lot of people use and then even like a 360 sometimes I can use this one I'm doing like a 180 right and I get a tighter u-shape I can use this to kind of stretch it out a little bit better and you know do something more not as extravagant as this but you know something more of a rounded type of shape like that just to do a bunch of different things because you know the goal is to get from A to B right and you know how creative do you want to get go in there so I'm gonna hand this over to your boss so here's your tube here's your insert so silicon insert and a tube yup and then you're just soaking in so yeah this is just so just dip it in the soapy water and they just want to you just want to kind of get the whole tube kind of wet I mean you might have to yeah stick it in there and then just work it down just want to make sure the tube is you know it's got the right good amount of liquid on it doesn't have to be too crazy cool okay and then yeah I should just insert right in there it should have you know be it should be tight but definitely pliable to be able to go in as you want it to you know not be loose so that way your bends are good waiting for the youtube comments on this yeah I know liquid cooling is the best when it comes to talk about this stuff all right so we've got this in now what okay so yep heat gun time so let's let's get this over here in a good little spot now I mean you can do this a bunch of different ways right one of the easiest ways is you know setting it up like this heat guns have this design now right you know you'll turn your heat on here and then as you put your tube you'll pick a spot where you want to do your 90 and then you just put it over maybe about an inch away around yeah and then just continue to rotate it now one of the tricks is is making sure that you're keeping it in that sense of a pace and you're not floating around that and forth like that so you're always heating that same area okay and as you go yeah spin is keeping just spit a little bit more yeah there you go does that go too fast and yeah just kind of wait you'll start to see the magic happen right it'll start to become a little pliable yeah so there it is yeah just keep rotating don't forget to keep the rotating going and then once you feel like you know you're gonna you could bend it kind of in a 90 degree thing it's probably gonna be pretty good okay so it's and then was right yeah let's go and shut this off and then comes out yourself 90 yep and then yeah just cut that and then usually just try to try to push this in right here don't don't burn yourself because it directly warm but the I hold it there is 20 seconds yeah should be pretty good so then it's just solidified like that you remove the insert move the insert yeah yeah and then now you'll be set to do your cuts so that way you can get everything fit you know where you're going and or if you need to make a Justin and everything you can always you know pull it out and you know don't start a fire here yeah there we go yeah and I mean is it is it feel like it's already pretty rigid maybe it's a little possible yeah but yeah you can just kind of just wait it out a little bit a lot of the waiting in between your shirts bend you have to heat and you have to cool and you want to make sure you go slow enough so you don't interfere with multiple bands right yeah you cool so there's the basics of headed to a 90 degree Bend we might be looking at more of this stuff in the future looking at hopefully you'll something like a p3 and then as a wet bench basically because we're starting to get those open loop cards in three views so thank you for the tutorial hey absolutely I appreciate you guys coming out yeah as always more information in the description below patreon link in the post well video helps that directly subscribe for more I'll see you all next time