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hey what's up guys Jase you sense here and you might notice that my set looks a little different than normal oh well that's because I completely broke into Paul's hardware's place while he's on vacation and we don't need him to know any of that but anyway the fool hahahaha I'm asked often because of hard tubing videos that I've done one to do a how to bend hard to being video we're going to be doing that and to the difference between PE T G and acrylic so I figured this would be a perfect time to actually demonstrate you guys how my phone goes off the mill video destroying a take 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 I hold here in my hands a very special tube and some acrylic and hard ptg stuff but you guys can't tell the difference by looking at it can you can tell the difference can't smell the difference we're talked about today what makes these tubes different now acrylic tubing was one of those things where it was like oh wow it's you can heat it you can bend it that's awesome but acrylic is inherently very very brittle so you fast forward a couple of years or quite a few years actually from when people started using acrylic tubing which is this guy here with the bend so away can keep track of it too using a material called PE TG I'll be honest I have no idea what the acronym stands for feel free to look it up yourself don't bother telling me I really don't care because it doesn't matter what it means but anyway we're going to talk about why you would want P DTG over acrylic and why I hate working with PE TG to be honest alright so first things first acrylic as I mentioned very very brittle in fact if you get in close here you can see there are a lot of spider cracks in this and if you see the end of this right here is actually broken there was a reason for that before shooting this video actually a while back I wanted to test the durability of acrylic so what I did was I heated it and I bent it and I did a 180 Bend right here so it wasn't just a 90 180 and the wallet was still hot I took it and I don't get in water just like that it went dunk holy I'm making a mess over I dunked it in water and those spider cracks formed and then I said well I wonder how brittle it is and I barely pulled it in a broke apart so as you can see the acrylic is takes more heat to bend it's bit more sensitive and as you bend it it gets a bit more brittle now we've got PE TG tubing you can actually tell that this is a bit more dense of a material it's actually a little bit heavy or even though the measurements are the same this is a 10 by 13 millimeter tube which is a 3/8 inch outer diameter I believe so I'm going to tap these both on the table in fact these are both the same length minus or minus an inch and a half and listen to the difference in tone so here's PE TG and here is acrylic spree plate btg acrylic so you can hear there's already a difference in density between the tube again as I mentioned weight wise it's quite a bit different now there are some drawbacks to PE TG one thing that I don't like about it when you cut acrylic effect that's due right now when you cut acrylic as you see it bounces off everywhere looks pretty easy but do you see how that piece actually broke off right there there's a little demonstration as to how brittle it is you now have some chunks on there and a crack so this is probably already slightly weakened because of the amount of times I've cut it but let's say we were deburring this thing this is a deeper tool from monsoon you use it to do outer and inner burr burr whatever you can see it actually cuts pretty easily into it and you get a nice move nevermind the crack you get a nice smooth Bieber on there when it comes to PE TG you hear the difference in tone much deeper but as you can see it's very rough like very very rough I don't how well the camera is picking it up but it's it's rough Paul feel that how rough is that that's really rough J it's like sandpaper rough isn't it so yeah but we've already talked about its strength and stuff so let's do a little demonstration here we like science we do this all science so I had here a hammer it's not a huge hammer but nonetheless it's a hammer do you hammer in the morning hammer time do you have her in the evening I hammer all summer time I don't know where this is going this is Peter Paul and Mary that that's probably okay folk music reference totally not picked up on that's ok let's move on sorry ok so I have the PE teaching I got to go look this up punch it so we've got the PT G tube in here let's go and hit it do you feel better now gee I say that's pretty durable what do you think Paul that's pretty durable you flattened it out pretty good how many hits do you think the acrylic to take uh at least at least double at least double that right okay yeah no now watch yourself you want me to put my glasses on your glasses great hold on hold on wait let me we get a little closer I'm actually hit it more here in the middle where it would be stronger because it's going to be loot this would actually be you know more brutal men do you ready that's why we use PTT to be now do you want that to be your system prayer this is actually good shank to Lila's you weren't expecting it to break that dramatically weight J's like here and help them this video for me Paul and think I was my expecting shank sure so yeah it looks like glass and stuff now here's the thing some people are gonna be like well that was clearly weakened of course it was it was heated and bent already so that and that's not just because it was heated and bent actually if you took a straight piece of acrylic we don't have any more hanging around here because we've seen the light but I could have taken the new piece of acrylic and hit it the same way and this I missed that one oh if we got a little bit more lefty right that was fun I apologize for the vents I'm even live-streaming like next week and acrylic pieces like pulling out of my hat alright though so I know this wasn't 8 how to bend but let's at least do this this is the PE T G oh it did shatter how disappointing but you bent it so this is actually a little bit about how to bend video oh yeah hey wait keeping promises here over there in Paul's our grant I mean Jay ste sense wherever we are yeah I don't even know so you gotta ask yourself which would you rather have in your system look at these pieces here it's like then around it's carnage so guys that's why I'm moving forward on the channel that's one of the reasons why skunk works is getting its water cooling loop completely redone all of the tubing right now in my system is this brittle stuff so yeah we moving over ptg tubing at that time I'll probably do a complete video on how to do the bending how to heat it how to get the temperature just right how to tell if it's too hot too cold how to put a gently insert your tube and well have a great time so Jay are there any negatives to PE TG any things you don't like about working with it the only thing I don't like is trying to get the ends nice and smooth once you do BRR because it does cut it is really soft that's the thing that's what helps this be so malleable is the fact that it's soft but because it's soft it makes it hard to cut sandpaper would actually work really good here on the end but I don't have any here and usually I have a really fine file that I'll use but normal tools like this which were designed for acrylic they just don't they don't cut very well you know you don't need this to be perfect you just don't want any sharp end sticking out otherwise you could cut a rings as you put these in but yeah I mean I it smells really bad too as you cut it especially if you're in a small space as you're cutting this and it's heating up it actually has a very nasty kind of a it's a very distinct smell over acrylic acrylic you don't really smell too much but the ptg definitely stinks the ptg also has a little bit of a blue to get a hue to it just slightly especially if you look at the ends where a curl like tiny little pieces left here you look at the ends and it's perfectly clear so it does have slight coloration on the end but when you look at the actual tube itself it's it's just fine and ptg is starting to become available in much more colors and things UV infused so they blow I actually have blue UV to utg under black light it lights up blue so you have some some cool options they're green is available there's also white with blue so yeah it's becoming much more widely adopted primo chill sells like an entire line of it then they're actually like the leaders in this heart bending tubing stuff so there you go guys what we covering some more on this topic but I thought while we're here and I had the opportunity to put pieces of sharp plastic all over Paul's studio I've heard you don't you don't say no to that so alright fallen code if you guys have any questions Facebook Instagram all that fun stuff and as always guys hope you had fun and thanks for watching easy video people and what if people want to see more of this awesome build to your left J well then you want to go ahead and head on over to Paul's hardware and make sure you follow him on Twitter Paul Hardware unless you want a great deal on maybe some lumber or hot dog sales or I mean maybe you can get your plastic tubing over there at there Paul's heart that's different place in Arizona they actually get quite angry