Pipe Bending 101
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FredEx
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Being an old gearhead I wondered about using stainless steel braided hose with AN fittings to do the hoses. The anodized aluminum fittings I think would be really cool. Here is a page on how it is done for cars:
http://www.hotrodhotline.com/content/stainless-braided-hoses-easy-way
http://www.hotrodhotline.com/content/stainless-braided-hoses-easy-way
Tomtom565
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Now that would look nice! Please do it!!
Mysterae
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I have been asked a few times now how i bent my pipe for my SR 2 build,
I like that very much! I've been thinking of something similar myself and seeing it done so well reinforces the desire. Can you tell me what pipe and fittings you used? I also wonder if I can terminate the pipework to a Koolance QDC...
USAdystopia
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Very nice work!
Fred Ex...your idea for braided tubing sounds good, too.
Fred Ex...your idea for braided tubing sounds good, too.
SPS
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The only thing that worries me about that is that if the hose was to move it could short out components? As it's not rigid like the pipes used by BNEG.
FredEx
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It should be okay, don't have a loop near to shorting, it will not flex and move with shorter runs in a case. It is a higher pressure rated neoprene hose with a stainless sheathing, once in place it isn't going to sag or move. The loop would have to be designed not to have as sharp of bends as a regular water cooling hose could have.
B NEGATIVE
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Cant use Alu in a PC loop mate,it ruins copper,galvanic corrosion.....FTL.
The fittings i used are the Aquatuning 10mm OD push fit.
FredEx
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Very good point.
It isn't quite the same as using an aluminum radiator and copper blocks mixed. The fittings being anodized reduces the problem and keeping dissimilar metals electrically isolated helps too. There are additives and if such hose were used one would not be caring what the water looked like, as in color. Having read of reactions in water cooling loops without dissimilar metals (plating issues), I'd want to use an additive in any water loop I'd make.
Red Line Water Wetter is a common one, but having long been a gearhead I have been a fan of Amsoil products for decades and they make one that is much better. Amsoil Dominator Coolant Boost. It can also improve cooling in an automotive system, but in a computer water loop I don't know. It helps in cars by breaking down surface tension and making the coolant "wetter" (a tighter contact with the surface it flows over) and then better caring the heat away. In a computer loop I'm not sure if it is a big enough system to see a difference.
Forgot to add this:
http://www.amsoil.com/shop/by-produ...tor-coolant-boost/?page=/storefront/rdcb.aspx
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B NEGATIVE
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There are ways of inhibiting corrosion,additives like you have mentioned or a sacrificial anode,but its better practice to avoid Alu altogether.
I was looking at proper banjo fittings for a recent build but I could only get them in Alu.
