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I haven't seen many people good enough at bending acrylic tubing to actually want to listen to their opinion on youtube.

You just need perseverance, the right equipment and plenty of spare tube. There is nothing else to it. If your happy with the first one you do then it will be rubbish, if your still picking up the heat-gun after 8 attempts at the same piece because you think you can get it a little bit better then it will most likely be decent.

Don't attempt anything tighter than the bend radius of your mandrels. Lube up your cord! Make sure the cord is a good fit for the tube, ID does vary and so does the tolerance on cord! Don't put cord through the entire piece make 3 bends and then try and get the cord out because smashing the tube with a hammer to get your cord back isn't fun. Make sure the cord only goes through the part your heating. Keep it lubed with olive oil.

JR

This, this is great advice!
 
I haven't seen many people good enough at bending acrylic tubing to actually want to listen to their opinion on youtube.

You just need perseverance, the right equipment and plenty of spare tube. There is nothing else to it. If your happy with the first one you do then it will be rubbish, if your still picking up the heat-gun after 8 attempts at the same piece because you think you can get it a little bit better then it will most likely be decent.

Don't attempt anything tighter than the bend radius of your mandrels. Lube up your cord! Make sure the cord is a good fit for the tube, ID does vary and so does the tolerance on cord! Don't put cord through the entire piece make 3 bends and then try and get the cord out because smashing the tube with a hammer to get your cord back isn't fun. Make sure the cord only goes through the part your heating. Keep it lubed with olive oil.

JR

thanks for the advice dude, i'll give it a shot tonight.
how many attempts did it take you to get as good as you are now?
 
what do you guys think of this loop order?

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thanks for the advice dude, i'll give it a shot tonight.
how many attempts did it take you to get as good as you are now?

About 3 times more tubing than you actually need, doubled.

what do you guys think of this loop order?

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Order is fine, most of the runs look sensible especially the left half. The huge long run from the CPU block to the radiator will be difficult. If you can make it shorter by going to the top of the res instead i'd go for that.

Looks good to me. Correct me if I'm wrong but once the loop temp equalizes, the only important order is res before pump and nothing in between.

That doesn't really matter either :)

JR
 
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For my build I got 16 pieces of 60cm tube and used every single bit of them :p the run cpu-rad will be a difficult one indeed as it's a long one and getting the bends done in the perfect spot is a pita, especially for people who are new to bending (I sure had a few moments where I wanted to toss the tube out of the window :lol:) The end result is well worth it though. Use 90° fittings where you can to make your life a lot easier. Not sure how much space there is inside that case, but I had to use a few in my 900D.

As JR said, use olive oil to lube the cord and don't forget to pull it out before doing another bend or cutting the tube.
 
That's your top rad I assume? Hmm that sucks.. You could try turning it around so your ports will be above the res and work out a loop like that so you'll have something like res-pump-gpu-cpu-rad-rad-res. Perhaps you can turn the front rad around too so the ports are on top, then work out a path to your res from there. Keep in mind that a drain port is very handy when you need to do maintenance and need it at the lowest possible point in the loop.
 
Ah it's a triple top rad, flipping that one will probably result in the same problem having not enough space above your front rad :/ getting rid of the rear exhaust fan will do the trick and give you enough clearance though
 
Ah it's a triple top rad, flipping that one will probably result in the same problem having not enough space above your front rad :/ getting rid of the rear exhaust fan will do the trick and give you enough clearance though

you can get 2 360's in it, but it looks like hardline might not be possible (for a the inexperienced hardliner) if only it was 5 or 10 mm taller...
 
you can get 2 360's in it, but it looks like hardline might not be possible (for a the inexperienced hardliner) if only it was 5 or 10 mm taller...

By the looks of it, it might just work if you remove the rear fan but then again that might look a bit off. 90° fittings take up a fair bit of space too though, keep that in mind if you consider them
 
you can get 2 360's in it, but it looks like hardline might not be possible (for a the inexperienced hardliner) if only it was 5 or 10 mm taller...

I don't see where the problem lies, it should still easily be possible with the ports at the bottom, just the really long run in your original loop order will be quite difficult and potentially untidy. Clearly flipping the rad isn't an option but you still might be able to neatly go into the top of a reservoir rather than the bottom saving you that super long run.

You could always pass through the motherboard tray and use flexible hose in the back, or route flexible tubing 'behind' radiators. Many many options ;)

JR
 
I don't see where the problem lies, it should still easily be possible with the ports at the bottom, just the really long run in your original loop order will be quite difficult and potentially untidy. Clearly flipping the rad isn't an option but you still might be able to neatly go into the top of a reservoir rather than the bottom saving you that super long run.

You could always pass through the motherboard tray and use flexible hose in the back, or route flexible tubing 'behind' radiators. Many many options ;)

JR

i could flip the cpu block upside down and run res, pump, rad, gpu, gpu, cpu, rad back to res...

passing through the motherboard tray is an idea i was thinking about but might be a problem for the 8-pin cpu cable.

By the looks of it, it might just work if you remove the rear fan but then again that might look a bit off. 90° fittings take up a fair bit of space too though, keep that in mind if you consider them

thanks i will, i'll sleep on it tonight.

thank you for your advice guys, I really appreciate it :D
 
Measure 25x then measure some more before cutting. Avoid twisting the tubing once heated and take your time.
 
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