Hardline water cooling

[MeaslyTitan]

Does anyone know any places in the uk that will add and custom bend your hardline water cooling tubes to fit a Mid tower ?

[Monk]

Ask your local PC shop I'd say, but it's best to just try it yourself, it's really not that hard, and if you are already committed to throwing a grand at your cooling system, another hundred on the tools and some spare tubing is nothing.

[igloosfolly]

Buy a heat gun and a roll of tape. Fill tube with sand.Put tape over each end of tube.Heat tube.Bend tube.Empty the Sand.Rinse tube with water.Install tube. Poor boys have poor boy ways.

[Monk]

Or spend £2 on a silicon insert and don't properly, sand will scratch the hell out of the tubes and as such is a hell of a bad idea, plus it won't stop the tube deforming or crushing in on itself, never heard of anyone using sand before lol.

[igloosfolly]

You dont know Jack do you all you know is spending money. Useing sand has been used for many years to form pipe so it will not crush itself. I have never heard of a silicon insert unless it was sold at a porn shop. LMAO https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=usng+sand+to+bend+pipe&&view=detail&mid=8779D0834C4817621F428779D0834C4817621F42&&FORM=VDRVRV http://www.usplastic.com/knowledgebase/article.aspx?contentkey=800

[Monk]

That is completely different to pc watercooling, something you have clearly never done and don't know anything about.

To even attempt that with the pc thin tubing would s ratch the hell out of it and you couldn't pack it tight enough to even work, oddly, when we are talking about pc hard-line watercooling I didn't think for a second d someone would bring up construction techniques that are totally unrelated.
If you go into your example I am pretty sure it uses heavy duty pipe bending g equipment and a damn blowtorch!

Both things you won't be using on a clear 16mm at max tube for a pc loop.

What you will use is a silicon insert that will hold the tubes shape while you gently heat it then form the bend either by hand or on a form of some kind.

[anrkyuk]

I'll admit I've never dabbled with custom loop water cooling but wouldn't something like this do the trick for "hard" tubes ?

https://www.screwfix.com/p/irwin-hilmor-multi-mini-tube-bender/28586

It's meant for bending copper pies.

[Monk]

Yes but it's completely overkill and could leave kinks on the end of the bend (as the tubing g us much softer) either do it free hand (actually really easy and how I did mine - some pics in profile) or get a cheap mandrel kit, I actually bought this one https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Barrow-ABS-Hardline-Pro-Mandrel-Bending-Kit-For-12mm-OD-Tubing-Water-Cooling-/171828516621 for 16mmtu e incase I needed it, but never did.

If you do choose to do it yourself one item I would really recommend is the https://www.primochill.com/products/primochill-rfb-rigid-tubing-finishing-bit it makes life soooo much easier and you can use it to trim tubes to length easily.

[tacoshy]

or you go totally savage and get one of thsoe kits:

https://www.caseking.de/alphacool-eiskoffer-professional-bending-und-measuring-kit-fuer-hardtubes-wazu-816.html

[Monk]

Yeah those kits look cool and totally overkill lol especially for a home user, by hand and eye is the best approach I reckon :)

[tacoshy]

Originally posted by Monk:

Yeah those kits look cool and totally overkill lol especially for a home user, by hand and eye is the best approach I reckon :)

yeah tho I might get one of those kits. Will be useable for more then just 1 loop or if you like to play around with such things.

For those who liek to have a basic kit with everything they really need, something like that:
https://www.caseking.de/xspc-schneide-und-biegekit-fuer-hard-tubes-wazu-689.html

[Monk]

Thing is, doing it by hand is easy and free:)

[MeaslyTitan]

I'm pretty sure I could figure it out but it's better to check with some of you more experienced water cooling experts , I have never had water cooling before I might just stick with the NZXT kraken and maybe swap to hardline tubing later on if I overclocked, thank you all for the help , apart from that guy who said use sand to bend the pipes xD . Thank you and kind regards .