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Okay moving on with questions towards fittings, noticed jay uses PrimoChill Revolver fittings and loved the Monsoon EV2 fittings. Just wondering what people say about their own fittings and which ones you all used and found to give good seals for hard tubing.

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Bitspower and Primo Chill seem to be the top tier brands when it comes to compression fittings for rigid tubing. Sadly, Yesterday Bitwits PC seems to have blown up on him due to EK Fittings, so would recommend you to stay away from EK hardline fittings. 

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I'm using EK-HDC fittings for almost 2 years now.

I haven't tried any other brand fittings but my experiences with EK fittings are good. Never had leaks caused by the fittings due to bad o-rings or such. For tubing I use Bitspower Crystal Link.

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3 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Bitspower and Primo Chill seem to be the top tier brands when it comes to compression fittings for rigid tubing. Sadly, Yesterday Bitwits PC seems to have blown up on him due to EK Fittings, so would recommend you to stay away from EK hardline fittings. 

I've been using hardline fittings from EK for a couple years now, no issues.

One users experience, when it's still not completely known what the cause is, does not mean someone should stay away from a product.

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7 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Bitspower and Primo Chill seem to be the top tier brands when it comes to compression fittings for rigid tubing. Sadly, Yesterday Bitwits PC seems to have blown up on him due to EK Fittings, so would recommend you to stay away from EK hardline fittings. 

you dont know the circumstance of the incident, doesnt mean all EK fittings are bad

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29 minutes ago, Limecat86 said:

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44 minutes ago, SilentTalon said:

 

same here, EK-HDC fittings across 3 systems. no problems no leaks. 

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4 minutes ago, SilentTalon said:

Thanks so far keep them coming, because looking on amazon reviews and a few others always feels a bit bought. Really prefer the real life accounts concerning fittings.

Just a side note for fittings and tubing be sure to check that both your tubing and fittings are metric or imperial exact sizes. Ones such as Primochill and Monsoon use imperial exact fittings and tubing where Bitspower and EK are metric exact. 

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KOOLANCE makes excellent soft & hardline compression fittings. I've used them on several builds without any issues.

 

100% agreed. Primochill revolver fittings are excellent as well. I was give pre-production samples in 2013 to use on the frozen tech bench before they were released. I've never experienced issues with them.

 

 

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