I have no idea how fittings work

[Guest]

I am beginning to try and make a custom water loop, and i have everything down, besides tubing and fittings. How do i make sure that the tubing and fittings are compatible with each other?

[Oshino Shinobu]

Depends if you're using hardline tubing or soft tubing and barb, push in or compression. 

 

Compression is really the most common now. For that, you need to match the ID and OD of the tubing and fittings. 

 

EDIT: Basically:

Barb: Match the ID of the tubing to the barb

Soft tube compression: Match both ID and OD of tubing and fitting

Hardline compression: Match the OD of the tube and fitting

Hardline push-in: Match the OD of the tube and fitting

[W-L]

Just now, NovaMan01 said:

I am beginning to try and make a custom water loop, and i have everything down, besides tubing and fittings. How do i make sure that the tubing and fittings are compatible with each other?

For soft tubing you want to make sure for compression style ones the ID and OD both match, for bards just the ID has to match. 

 

Hardline compression fittings similarly you want the ID and OD to match but also must note which brands you are using if the tubing and fittings are not the same manufacture as there is both inch and metric exact tubing.

 

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, W-L said:

For soft tubing you want to make sure for compression style ones the ID and OD both match, for bards just the ID has to match. 

 

Hardline compression fittings similarly you want the ID and OD to match but also must note which brands you are using if the tubing and fittings are not the same manufacture as there is both inch and metric exact tubing.

 

On hardline compression, only the OD needs to match as there's no central barb like there is on soft compression fittings. 

[GeorgeDouj88]

Also, OD = Outer Diameter and ID = Inner Diameter

[W-L]

1 hour ago, NovaMan01 said:

I am beginning to try and make a custom water loop, and i have everything down, besides tubing and fittings. How do i make sure that the tubing and fittings are compatible with each other?

What fittings and tubing are you wanting to use? 

Edited January 6, 2018 by W-L

[GeorgeDouj88]

Just now, W-L said:

Yes that is correct, what fittings and tubing are you wanting to use? 

You're asking the original poster right... Not me?

[W-L]

4 minutes ago, G3ORG3Douj88 said:

You're asking the original poster right... Not me?

Yes

Wrong quote. 

[Guest]

52 minutes ago, W-L said:

What fittings and tubing are you wanting to use? 

uhh i will be using an EK Supremacy block and a GTX series card block. Im clueless so whatever you recommend would be great

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, NovaMan01 said:

uhh i will be using an EK Supremacy block and a GTX series card block. Im clueless so whatever you recommend would be great

The blocks you're using doesn't really matter as pretty much everything uses G1/4 threads. Pretty much all fittings and all blocks you come across will use G1/4 threads, so compatibility between blocks/rads/reservoirs isn't something you need to worry about much. 

 

 

[W-L]

1 minute ago, NovaMan01 said:

uhh i will be using an EK Supremacy block and a GTX series card block. Im clueless so whatever you recommend would be great

The blocks make no difference but do you want to do hardline tubing or soft tubing? 

[AperumDesign]

I just wrote up this flow chart which details the use of fittings in general. Hopefully that sheds some light on your question.

 

 

 

[Guest]

4 hours ago, W-L said:

The blocks make no difference but do you want to do hardline tubing or soft tubing? 

soft

[W-L]

5 minutes ago, NovaMan01 said:

soft

For soft tubing I would suggest to use thick walled tubing since it doesn't kink as easily when doing tight radius bends. A commonly used sized the 3/8"ID, 5/8"OD for small diameter and 1/2"ID, 3/4"OD for large diameter. The tubing size is up to you and makes little to no difference in performance other than looks. 

[airdeano]

an ol-timers trick was to use 7/16" ID x 5/8" OD soft tubing on 1/2" barbs as you don't have to use clamps. tough to get on, but once on, nuttin' but a razor blade can remove it.