Recessed ports on the bottom of res?

[Caatraa]

Hi all

 

So this seams a bit odd..... so i bought a pump res combo https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-xres-140-revo-d5-rgb-pwm-incl-sl-pump.

not know that it had such a short res. as cool is everything EK is, the Configurator kind of sucks...

So i bought a new taller res and it came with it's own base and top cap. https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-res-x3-250

Now my water return has to come from the top as none of the tubes i could get are long enof to reach from the top of my case to the bottom. (thermatake core P5)

as most of you know the EK top only has 1 port on it. So i took the base off the new res and used that as a toper and now i have 5 ports on top. Fixed right.... wrong.

 

As i was leak testing i found one on the res return. 1st i thought my tube was just a little of flat but i noticed while testing that even when i tightened the fitting down very hard i could still pull the tube out.

then i noticed that the ports on this base unit are ressed so a plug sits flush. and when using a compression fitting the bottom of the threads go down in to this recession not allowing the collar to go all the way down and hold the tube tightly on the o rings. i tried loosing the fitting in the base so all the threads are showing but this cause it to leak from the thread side instead of the collar side.

 

anyone know why this is happening? if i go buy a extender something like (https://www.microcenter.com/product/486720/g-1-4-8-mm-block-extender---black)

do you think that would fit in the base so the compression would fit?

Pics are 1 the recesses of the ports. 2 a compression with the threads just started. enof that i can't pick it up. 3 screwed all the way in finger tight not wrenched to seal the o ring. and 4 how far i had to back it out to get the collar to seat but the threads leaked.

 

I hope someone has some ideas.

Thanks

Caat

[Mick Naughty]

Pretty sure its mentioned on every product that they do that too. Yes extenders will work.

[Mick Naughty]

Product even says it comes with them already.

[Benjeh]

It literally comes with extenders so you can use normal compression fittings (fig 1 & 2) And you get this warning (fig 3) in the first link's manual you provided.

fig 1.

fig 2.

 

fig 3.