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hey what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and if you live anywhere on the west coast or I guess Southern California area Arizona Nevada you guys know it's starting to get warm already and it's only March so instead of waiting all the way till June like I normally do to start bringing the water cooling videos I'm gonna keep this train going I already showed you guys how I setup the water cooling pump for the parvum veer 1.0 build and that thing is coming along nicely that's it's right there pretty epic but I digress we're gonna go ahead move into today's topic which is all about hard tubes for your computer through the computer tubes dirty mind out of the gutter come on don't tell me you weren't thinking it hard to just giggity-giggity when you hear that the new EVGA silent series power supplies offer excellent silence and efficiency through their new EVGA Eco mode technology and also features a seven year warranty for worryfree gaming click the link in the description to learn more now heart tubing is actually nothing new in fact it was around years ago when it came to water cooling and stuff and it just didn't take off because it didn't have enough aftermarket support in fact most people were going with things like copper pipe and stuff which is readily available at like Home Depot you can get hard copper stock and you can cut it down and bend it pretty easily with a mandrel bender and have some pretty sick looking builds it just didn't have enough aftermarket support when it came to things like fittings and you were stuck using those really ugly compression prescient pressin fittings you find again in the plumbing section of Home Depot now unless you were doing some sort of a really cool steampunk build all those brass fittings and stuff just didn't look very good and it's face steampunk is cool but if that's your only option then it really wasn't readily and considered amongst most mainstream builders or people just looking to do some sort of a cool rigid tubing build in their system so today we're going to talking about a couple of different products here from alpha cool now we're going to be taking a look today at their rigid fittings we're going to take a look at some of the rigid tubing and we're going to show you guys a couple of different options now that may be actually considerable for your next build now rigid fittings are a pretty big deal because unlike soft tubing where you have the tubing being clamped down on a barb and it has actually teeth to grab on to rigid tubing is something that's always been a little bit scary to people because the only thing holding it in is an o-ring and that oring if you guys think about that is not a very high friction piece and so things like jostling or shipping it or moving it around always freak people out because it could just pop right out well now if we fast forward several years as hard line fittings start to become more popular again in the last couple of years now just about everybody has some sort of a compression fitting and that's exactly what we're looking at here today now unlike soft tubing where you can find measurements both for Europe and the millimeters in the United States you can find them you know 3/8 half-inch three-quarter inch outer diameter all hard line fittings are pretty much measured in millimeters and I'm sure that makes a lot of the people out there in Europe very very happy it kind of made things hard for me to get used to because I don't do the millimeters unless it's photography then I understand millimeters pretty well but this fitting right here is actually they're 10 by 13 millimeters so that means that for instance I have a 10 by 13 millimeter piece of PE TG tubing right here so as I'm dropping it all over the place I didn't play wide receiver in football folks I played lineman it's really a thankless job if your lineman you know what I'm talking about but no so those measurements are the measurements of the internal opening as well as the overall width so in this case it is 10 millimeters in the opening of the center of the tube and 13 millimeters on the outside now when it comes to the fittings it's the outside measurement or that 13 millimeter which makes a big difference for instance if you're talking about things like bits power crystal link it's a 12 millimeter outside diameter and that one millimeter makes a huge huge difference it's not going to work you can't put a 12 in a 13 and you can't gram a 13 into a 12 like the jokes the jokes are real but now that we understand how the sizing works now you'll understand what it is you're actually looking at if you take a look at these two tubes you can see one is clearly much bigger than the other because a lot of people liked 1/2 inch inner diameter 3/4 inch outer diameter soft tubing because it was large made the system look more full and you can get a higher flow flow rate with a higher internal diameter companies that started coming out now with the 1/2 inch inner diameter which you can see now this tubing practically fits inside that tubing I'm going to shove it in there like again the struggle is real to keep this video clean but just to give you an example of the bigger tube here the inner diameter is 12 and the outer diameter is 16 and now you have multiple options with fittings to use a larger tube like this which makes things look even cooler in a big system like behind me with skunkworks this has been available at the time I would have probably considered using this over this now there compression fittings are actually really really simple to use you have a flat disc washer here as well as an internal oring that slides over the tubing gets pressed against that flat washer as well as an o-ring inside of the fitting itself before I demonstrate how it works one thing that's also nice to see is in the actual threaded part of the fitting it is a hex head so one of the things that kind of sucks is sometimes when you clamp down on a compression fitting with an o-ring really tight and you go to loosen it you actually end up loosening the hole fitting out of the radiator or the pump or whatever it's connected to and you have a problem getting these two halves apart well now because of the way that they've done this you could stick an Allen wrench inside the fitting and get a nice good leverage to get the two halves apart okay so now for an example here I've got my alpha cool radiator but you guys can't tell who sponsored today's video we're going to go ahead and thread this in one thing I forgot to mention too is it also has an o-ring as most fittings do now also on the G quarter thread side of the fittings so that you get a nice seal against the item that you are putting your fitting into whether it be radiator GP block CP cpu block pump or reservoir and you can also use that allen key to tighten that up on there you don't want to over tighten or you'll strip the threads remember they are just brass on both ends they are fairly soft material but once you have the fitting in there then basically you're going to take your flat disc your o-ring as well as your impression and you're going to put the compression housing over first then you're going to put the flat disk washer on or drop it on the floor you're going to take the flat washer end and put that against the cap and they're going to take the o-ring and just slide it over over the tip the tip of the tube think I'll just let you guys think whatever you want to think I'm just going to stop now what you going to do is you're going to take the tube and gently insert it inside the opening this is hard guys is no matter what I say I'm in the wrong today I'm just gonna keep this in the video because this is actually kind of fun even though I'm the only one in this room laughing yeah my own innuendoes not kidding guys the struggle is real okay gently take your tube slightly twist it as you put it in there move the o-ring down against the opening take your flat washer make sure it's against the opening or the o-ring and then you're going to just tighten them the compression until it's as tight as you can get it now I wouldn't take a wrench and wrench down on this because then you'll you can end up crushing or cracking the tube and that will be just as bad you know you don't want to bend or crack your tube that's a bad day there you go so now you've taken your radiator and turn it into a male but as you can see it holds in there pretty good it's not as sturdy as some of the other fittings I have used it's a little bit of a concern of mine so I wouldn't go you know I wouldn't put any dangling parts off of this like letting it support anything you once you have the two ends secured it's not going to go anywhere and it holds tight but one thing to point out though is that you can actually twist and pull it right out with the compression still on now it fits really really tight in fact if it's tight enough to where I when I twisted it it actually put some marks in the acrylic but I can't get it back in remember the only thing holding this thing together is an o-ring so you can only get so much of a connection with just rubber but let's say acrylics not your thing maybe you are one of those guys like I mentioned earlier you'd consider doing metal piping and you think metal piping would be a high level of badassery well alpha cool also has something else that they have developed here metal tubing yeah now this is actually their black chrome they have regular chrome and they're black chrome I thought this looked pretty freakin awesome you can't bend this I wouldn't recommend bending it if you do the coated the plating will probably crack but you can hacksaw it and then Dremel or sand edges and then you can put it all together the same way that I showed you with the acrylic you just take your cap put it over the tip okay here we go again guys assemble it all together like I mentioned before you have to be as gentle on this one because you've got a black oh this one whatever guys I'm just going with it screw it down and then as you see you now could have metal piping in fact the metal pipe seems to be a little bit sturdier in there but it's heavier as well this is a pretty heavy pipe because it is pretty much brass the plating is very good on these in fact that the chrome plating or nickel plating on these is very very uniform yet thin because tolerances are important so they can't put thick nickel plating on there it is a knurled fitting so that you can get a good grip on there with your fingers and everything about this fitting is I have no problems using this in fact I'm going to be putting these in a build in the future but yeah with so many companies on the market ALPA cool is really stepped up and has made a good effort at coming up with some rigid hard line stuff you can get these fittings as well in the 13 by 10 or the 12 by 16 as I mentioned the metal fittings I think this is this is really really good line of product the only downside is the links that you see right here the 40 centimeters long that's as long as they make so you're likely not gonna be able to do things like you see with skunkworks behind me with long tubes because you can buy those tubes by up to like four feet even eight feet long with some manufacturers which you can then cut it and do single long bends and stuff you're going to be stuck doing shorter runs with this and probably haven't used fitting elbows or in a small case like the part of them that's what perfect size as well so there you go guys Jason's looking at alpha cools new hardline stuff this video was struggle to get through today with you guys know my sense of humor and well it just sort of wrote itself alright make sure you guys keep following on the social media if you want to see more behind the scenes stuff of this guy right here this parven 1.0 as you can see I started put radiators and things in there but yeah if you guys want to see more about that as it's happening start to get heavy make sure you follow on the social media Instagram Facebook Twitter YouTube is a good place to to follow I'm not doing build logs on that like I said I'm just doing in social media updates as well as at the end of course I'm going to be doing like a complete rundown of the system performance benchmarks and all that stuff so there we go hope you guys enjoyed today's video I enjoyed making it for you and once again thanks for watching