pvc pipe watercooling?
I'm not a "PC water cooling expert or enthusiast", but I haven spent many hours researching this very topic. I'm a pipe fitter by trade for HVAC. So I know a thing or two when it comes to working with pipe and fittings. The fittings you will need are found in the commercial drinking space, Ice machines and soda machines. Here is a link to show you what I'm talking about: Push-to-Connect Fitting for Drinking Water. Here is also a link of fittings: Push-to-Connect Tube Fittings. Now with these fitting you can use hard line pipe like copper, pvc or cpvc. You can even use puch to connect pneumatic fittings: click here. You are also restricted to the pipe size: 1/4 or 3/8 tubing
Draw backs to hard piping other than petg and acrylic.
Copper must be in mm and not US standard. This will increase the cost of the copper 2 to 3 times over. Also you must use soft copper to make wider bends so you dont restrict the flow of water. Also hard drawn copper cant be bent and must be wielded. That can be messy and costly.
PVC and CPVC must use adapters. Reason being PVC and CPVC wall thickness. The wall thickness of PVC and CPVC are greater than metal pipe. So after the adapters the PVC or CPVC must be glued. Its very messy and can have lots of leaks if your not use to gluing them together.
The best piping is stainless steel. But your will need bending tool that may cost a hundreds of dollars and its a pain to bend. Also stainless steel cost 3 times more than copper. You will need a special welding rig.
I understand this is a lot more than you asked for. Just my 2 cents
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