Unbending a soft tube with clips or stuff ?

[PDifolco]

Hello

I have a 360 rad (GPU AIO) with barbs down in the bottom of my case, and tube is quite bent due to the angle going out of the case basement (see pic)

The cooling still works but I'm pretty sure it has reduced flow due to that

I know that I should install 90° fittings to solve this but I'm lazy to do it, could I just get some clips or clamp to "unbend" it ? Where can I find this ?

Thanks

[RollinLower]

you could go old-school style and get tube springs to prevent the kinks like this:

[PDifolco]

11 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

you could go old-school style and get tube springs to prevent the kinks like this:

Mmm this will require to disassemble everything as well, was thinking of something I can do without removing the tubes, would something like this work ?

[johnno23]

I would change the tubing but if that is not an oprtion I would use a strip of cloths maybe 2cm wide so that it does not slip down to the connection on the rad.

Loop the strip of cloth round the tubing approx 6 to 8 cm from the connector and then find a spot on the case where you can pull that tubing back and away from the direction that it is now severely creased.

It wont look pretty but if you were thinking to use that ziinc hose clamp then looking pretty was not your main concern. use a strip og black cloth so it is less distracting is about as good as it gets if you dont want to do major work on the PC

 

[jaslion]

1 hour ago, PDifolco said:

Mmm this will require to disassemble everything as well, was thinking of something I can do without removing the tubes, would something like this work ?

Thats a hose clamp. That won't do anything for unbending the tube. This is mean to attach hoses to things.

 

Tube coils are installable after the fact too they spin around the tube.

[PDifolco]

41 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Thats a hose clamp. That won't do anything for unbending the tube. This is mean to attach hoses to things.

 

Tube coils are installable after the fact too they spin around the tube.

Mmmm I was thinking that using it at the bend point and just tightening it will make the tube "round" again,and it'll hold by pressure only ..

maybe I'm wrong

The tube coils I've found (Alphacool) have some "rigid" endings I was thinking it has to be installed on the tube beforehand

Maybe there are others models but have to find them

 

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, PDifolco said:

Mmmm I was thinking that using it at the bend point and just tightening it will make the tube "round" again,and it'll hold by pressure only ..

maybe I'm wrong

It'll just kink in another place because of tension on the tube.

[PDifolco]

Just now, jaslion said:

It'll just kink in another place because of tension on the tube.

Possibly yes

Can't find any non metal/not closed tube coils for 13mm...