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what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and when I did the mini ITX build I mentioned that I use glass tubing and I asked you guys if you wanted a tutorial about how to use glass tubing in your systems now I admit I'm not the first one to ever do it but there's very little information out there about how to do it so today we are going to try and turn this a little bit more mainstream by me showing you the methods that I use to cut the glass and everything you need to know about using glass inside of your system today's video is sponsored by Scottevest the clothing company known for its innovative designs allowing you to keep your belongings safe and secure so you can focus on the more important things in life today I'm wearing the nomadic hoody I like it for its bold design lightweight but warm micro fleece and 13 pockets allowed me to keep everything that matters most to me near and dear and I don't worry about losing that 980ti you guys know how much I love my 980 T is but maybe this bold 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tubing what really comes down to nothing more than an aesthetic at least in my opinion there's not really any sort of a structural integrity to glass compared to PE TG or acrylic some might think it's really really brittle it's actually not I think acrylic is a bit more brittle than the glass tubing because of the wall thickness but for me I used it because of the clarity it just looks so oh damn clear its scratch-resistant and it's actually going to be more compatible with fluids than any plastic out there I mean why do you think they use glass beakers in science labs and dealing with acids and stuff is because glass is pretty much impervious to almost everything so kind of a case in point when you're dealing with PE TG is there actually is a glycol in here and that's one of that's why should with the G stands for in PT G and you can't use glycol-based fluids with this otherwise you'll start to run into some problems with melting and things so when it comes to PT G hitting the market a lot of people freaked out because some coolants do have glycol in them when it comes to acrylic I've shown you guys in the past that it's not very shatter resistant hard impacts can crack it and break it granted I don't think you plan on dropping your computer but you know whatever I think it's just one of those things where people moved from acrylic to PT G because it was new it's nothing necessarily bad with acrylic either and acrylic is clearer than PE TG when it comes to you know how clear the actual plastic is and it looks a lot better but yeah all in all glass is definitely the clearest it looks the best in my opinion and like I said it's not going to have any adverse reactions to any sort of fluid now as most people know soft tubing tends to cloud over time this is some of the soft tubing that was used in my test loop with distilled water and yeah as you can see here it is turned pretty damn cloudy now obviously there are some tools that you are going to need one of the first ones more than obvious is the fact you're going to need glass tubing now this is available from companies like Mayhem's in fact you can get these at like Granger and a lot of industrial supplies as well but I am holding Mayhem's glass because that's what what they sent me but anyway it's going to be coming in a bunch of different sizes twelve millimeter thirteen millimeter and sixteen millimeter one thing to point out the method I'm showing you today will only work with twelve and thirteen I don't tend to use the big stuff like sixteen millimeter so you're going to have to assume you're doing 12 or 13 you're going to need a drill one that goes up to at least 13 millimeters of opening in here and we'll talk about why in a minute you are going to need some files I just use a straight file and then I use a rounded file here a triangle file would work as well but we've got some files truly doesn't matter how course they are and of course you are going to need some sort of glass cutter or score now I've got two different models right here that I'm going to demonstrate this guy here I got from Amazon for 11 bucks this guy here I got from Amazon for 35 so you got two different options here depending on your price point and I'm actually a little bit more fond of this guy and I'll show you why when we do the actual cutting cutting when we do the actual cutting tutorial we get to cutting later and then of course you're going to need your rigid fittings for either a 12 or 13 millimeter you decide most people do 13 millimeter that's kind of the norm but yeah anyway just regular compression fittings that you would use for hard tubing like PE T G or acrylic are the same tubing fittings that you are going to use for glass okay so one of the things I recommend is that you actually use either acrylic or PE TG to get all of your links situated so I would completely build out the loop with plastic and then use these as your templates for cutting the glass the reason why is it's a lot easier to make adjustments to plastic by trimming off you know eighth of an inch a quarter inch whatever then the glass because the thing is with the glass you need to have something to grab onto for leverage to break it and you're not gonna be able to do that if you try and score the very end of glass it just doesn't work very well so although it's going to be a little bit more expensive you know a few extra bucks to get the plastic definitely do plastic first then cut glass now cutting the glass is actually very very simple it's nothing more than creating a weak spot for the glass to break you want to control where the glass breaks because we are quite literally going to be breaking glass and that's how we cut it you know there are some very expensive lathes and stuff that you can put glass in that has a special cutting wheel that would slowly cuts the glass as its turning on a lathe n it spits you know coolant on it just like a CNC but it's for glass and it cuts it very nicely obviously these are glass cutting companies that deal with a lot of science beakers and things like that we are not you know we're not scientific around here this is this is this is freaking Haggard garage when it comes to tech man so that's where this guy comes in right here you are going to want to mark the glass and the way that I do this is let's say let's say this is the length that we needed to be right there right so ignore this part that's hanging off for this just use our imaginations that's all it is right there so I take these I line these up together and then I take my file and then I will take the edge of it this is where kind of a triangular file comes in handy but this is a nice thin file here and then I will put a good score in that glass that way I can see exactly you can't really see on camera but there's a little scratch right there that's where I need to cut so that's how I do it but this guy right here you could try and put this on there squeeze it by hand and it is that this is considered a fingertip score and then you know you can try and turn that and get your scratch the problem is this one here as you can see because it's a cheap model it's got some let me show you here it's got some side-to-side movement the problem is this wants to walk on you and then you end up getting a spiral scratch which isn't going to do you any good so what I found works for me is I will literally just chuck the glass up in my drill you want to put your clamp right here pretty loose that way doesn't so that way it doesn't crack the glass and you see I just made a lathe I pretty much just made a poor man's lathe so then what I do is I line the scoring wheel which is right there that's that little wheel I line that up where I want the score to be hold it tight and just kind of go slow and then speed up slowly and then you can see we have put a pretty good score in this glass now I like to make sure that the groove is as deep as possible so I let it go around a bit and you'll hear it cutting the glass too there we go so you can see we've got a pretty deep scratch right there now what we've done is we've told the glass pretty much exactly where we want it to crack fortunately when the end right here is broken and then it's filed down and you stick that in the fitting and it's got the clamp that goes over the top that doesn't actually show believe it or not that little mark is on every tube inside the ITX system but you can't see it because the clamp on top of the compression fitting actually covers that so once that's taken care of you want to add a little moisture to the cut I literally just lick my finger and wipe it around and it sounds going to gross but and then you're going to apply with your thumbs pressure on either side as you're pulling back like that and away with your hands and then there it is there is your nice pretty even cut you get a close-up on that so that's good enough right there it's straight and it's not jagged so you can see right there without even cleaning it up it's actually not that jagged and that wouldn't even cut you it's not that bad at all now official glass cleaning would say that you'd want to use some sort of like a Benson torch and torch the end of this and it's going to like kind of flame polish it and smooth it out obviously I don't have a Venson torch so we are going to chuck it back up in my grill and then I just take my file as of spinning and then that is what we are left with right there yeah not too bad for being kind of a poor man's method huh now the reason why you really want to make sure you clean up that edge is because there are oh ringing side of most of the compression fittings especially here on the bits power 12 millimeter compression fittings these are the ones that I use inside the ITX build when you push that in you want to kind of give it a little bit of a twist and then it fits in there perfectly but if you don't have that smoothed out you have any sharp edges you're just going to slice that Oh ring now it's not a huge deal if it does cut that o-ring a little bit because it does have another oring at least on the bits power fittings that goes over it right here and then when you push down on the clamp that's going to compress that o-ring against the glass and the actual fitting so it's not going to bleed but there it is that is what the glass looks like a little bit dirty at the moment but yeah you kind of get the idea but if that right there isn't a reason to go with glass I don't know what is now the more expensive tool that I showed right here this is actually designed to and I'm gonna put a link to Amazon and of course it's going to link to my affiliate so you know if you guys use that thank you for that - both of these tools like I said I bought both of these off of Amazon now each wheel inside of the or each chain link right here has a scoring wheel inside of it and the idea is that you open up the jaws like this and then close the chain around it this is actually not easy to do at the angle I'm trying to do this for you guys so yeah you lock the chain in like that and the idea here is as you squeeze this it starts to give a score as you turn it and you can hear actually hear it cracking or scoring I should say and then as you turn it and get a score all the way around it you're supposed to simply pull the handle that will get this in focus that would be a good idea huh and then when you pull the handle it just breaks it apart the problem I have with this is look at how jagged the ends are so one of the reasons why I bought this tool was to see if it's any better and I can you know tell you why I like the other tool better now you can also chuck it up and use it as a scoring tool in the drill like I just did so let's go and show you how that works now this can work in the drill the same way like I showed you with the finger tips core is that you can simply put a little bit of pressure where you need the score to be and then spin it with the drill take this off and then you can snap it in the same manner so that works really well too and that's one of the reasons why I got this is because this doesn't want to walk on me like this does so if you're going to be doing a lot of builds like I think I'm going to be doing a tool like this might come in handy but the fingertip score is definitely a mitts about 11 bucks on Amazon it's definitely a way to get started so there you go guys the J's two cents method of scoring and cracking the glass which is really nothing more than just kind of a standard conventional way of cracking it so when it comes to the tools like I said 11 bucks versus about 35 bucks you can see the links to these down in the description if you guys are curious about that if you're only going to be doing one build then you could get away with this you want to give yourself lots of extra glass because every now and then you crack it and then it chips off really deep inside the edge of the cut and then you've got to cut that piece all over again so you want to make sure you have a lot of spare and like I said there's no real trimming it down to size because the closer that the score is to the end of the glass when you go to break it the more the glass wants to kind of break apart and become jagged so there's really no simple method when it comes to trimming the glass at least without one of those lathes that have a cutting wheel so that's how I did it that's how I did the glass in this ITX build and I'm going to be doing glass in future builds I might convert skunkworks to it the downside is that you've got to use 90 degree fittings to do the bends because heating and bending glass is not easy especially to make it keep its shape because filling it with something to make it keep from or some sort of a mandrel to keep it from crushing on itself with the amount of heat it takes to get glass to Bend means like the silicone tubing we use a ptg would melt long before the glass does glass is really strong stuff actually anyway thanks for watching you guys requested this video it was actually pretty easy one to do if you know a better method for cutting glass or you have any tips for me or anyone else on how to get better cleaner cuts on the glass without getting too expensive remember these are these are people who don't work with glass every day including myself so going super expensive on the tools makes zero sense so if you've got another poor man's method to cutting glass and keeping it clean put it in the comments or tweet it at me and I might do an update to this video showing other methods anyway guys thanks for watching once again these videos aren't possible without you and I'm hugely grateful for that because of that I will make another video and I will see you in it till then