Swivel fittings and quick disconnects

[Krash]

Hi all,

 

Anyone tried out these fittings? I could use the 45* fittings just to lessen the strain on the tubing/fittings in a few places in my loop, and I'm looking at two models of quick disconnects, one from Koolance and one from Swiftech's. I was thinking about using those before and after the GPU blocks.

 

Let me just throw this out there too...I'm new to water cooling, I've done some heavy homework on this stuff, both through videos and also from reading you guys here on this forum, (thanks), and what I've read and watched so far it kinda looks like 90* bends, (fittings), are probably not the best idea in a water loop.....right? Two spots would look way better with them in my loop but I wouldn't want to compromise performance over aesthetics. What do you guys think? Love to hear what you've seen or even experienced with 90* bends in your loop.

 

 

[Altecice]

As long as your pump has ample L/ph then a 45/90 bend or several will be fine. My pump is raited for 800l/hr and I have 4 90's in my loop and I can't tell a difference in flow rate.

[kerberos]

If you have a D5 pump, it has enough power to handle the quick disconnects, they wouldn't make it so expensive if it was useless. I have myself 4 of them, each one on intlet and outlet of my 2 radiators. Maintenance was kind of a pain so I needed an easy way to remove and take things apart. I would recommand the koolance one, QD3 because the QD4 series are a bit too large. Carefull when you picked quick disconnects, you need 1 Male that goes together with 1 Female.

They are two types of quick disconnects too, one that goes directly to a block or radiator ( it has G1/4 universal) and the other that goes with your tubing size with a compression fitting on the end.

is that clear enough ?

 

for example :

Male or Female G1/4 + Male or Female 3/8" 5/8" tubing size

Male or Female 3/8" 5/8" tubing size + Male or Female 3/8" 5/8" tubing size

 

best use for them was a drain point on the lowest point, I would disconnect them, use a spare one with tubing and start draining

[Krash]

Thanks all.

 

Thanks for building my confidence with the 45's and the 90's, and I do have a D5 pump. I'm feeling better and better about this build.

[runit3]

I've got the Swiftech MCP655 and a majority of my fittings are Bitspower rotary 45/90's. Handles them just fine. As long as you have an adequate pump and you're not using highly restrictive blocks in combination with multiple 90's you'll be fine.

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