Hard or soft

[SpudMaster]

Also, for me, a hard-line setup has to look absolutely **** on perfect with efficient minimal runs, dead on bends etc, or it is not going to look decent. That's just me.

Yeah as I said in my post above if the tubing doesn't run exactly parallel or in line with eachother, bends not matching ect it would bug to no end. Its not very often you see a hard tube system done perfectly. Annoyingly I'm always drawn to the imperfections

 

[cjgardens]

I think im pretty decent at doing hardline bends. But on the odd time its not been straight or matched the other bends, the tube gets put in the bin and i start again.

Ill try get a good picture of my rig when i get home

 

[Mysterae_]

Also, for me, a hard-line setup has to look absolutely **** on perfect with efficient minimal runs, dead on bends etc, or it is not going to look decent. That's just me.

I get this, it's difficult to not let "the best" get in the way of "good enough". In saying this though, I'm guilty of it myself with not being happy with certain tube runs and having to redo them (spot what I mean in the image below).

What I wish I had known about hard tubing before was to get a miniature table saw or equivalent for cutting the ends of the tubes square, using a hacksaw never produced good ends. I've spent too much time sanding them down square then reaming a chamfer on them. Using copper tubing for a previous build was actually easier.

 

[Jay85]

There's nothing stopping you from using both, the aesthetics im using both especially when you sleeve soft tubing looks really nice.

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

@Mysterae_
Not exactly cheap
But primochill (maybe others too)
Do a drill bit
Can ream,square the end off can even use it
To shorten tubing
Probably worth the cost if do a lot
Of hard tubing

 

[Mysterae_]

@Mcnumpty2323 £50 will get you an okay one from the usual deforestation project and you can use it for other purposes too. If I was going to cut more than 10 times I'd invest in a mini-table saw, definitely.