Anyone heard of the company called "Barrow" ?

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Anyone heard of the company called "Barrow" ?

I bought a few Barrow branded fittings. A male to male 5mm spacer and a few blanking plugs. Made of solid brass and the finish is superb.

They look like re-brands of Bispower parts, right down to the colour of the 'o' rings.
 
Not rebrands so much as the factory that made BP stuff selling the design to others/making copies. One of the Barrow operators is in my town here in the US and they sell, among Barrow stuff, cheap clothing, electronics and the lot. Same factory(ies) make all this.

As far as the quality goes, they are pretty decent. They used to be a lot cheaper but now their prices have gone up to the point where BP fittings aren't that far of. Still, if you want BP fittings without the logo at 90% original quality and <100% price, you know what to do now. Their matte finish is also surprisingly quite better than the BP matte finish if I do say so myself.
 
Cool cool. I figured I would give their stuff a go and i'm pleased with the quality. Cost wise, I would have spent 2.5 times more money to get the exact same BP parts. Nice thing is, the matte black finish matches my Primochill revolver fittings perfectly.
 
Actually Barrow just use the same manufacturer as Bitspower do. I think the company is run by an enthusiast in China.

I have used some of their fittings in my recent build, along with BP fittings too. Aesthetically they are not quite as nice as BP, but are as good as for function. I have found a supplier on a pop auction site who sells a lot of their stuff, and it is a lot cheaper than BP fittings.

Some people on overclock.net have said that the oring colour is a bit meh.
 
Besided the logo, I cannot tell the difference between them.

Yeah the 'o' ring colour isn't very appealing, swapping them out with red ones through.
 
billyk1983 said:
Yeah the 'o' ring colour isn't very appealing, swapping them out with red ones through.
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Kinda reminds me of what was happening a decade ago with HKS car pod filters, people were buying a £35 chinese copy of a £150 HKS induction kit, then binning the included filter and buying a replacement HKS one for £15 lol.
 
Haha yeah I did that. I bought a Chinese replica CDA pod filter and bought a genuine CDA filter sponge. Sill cost about a quarter of the price lol.
 
I would have bought one too if I didn't already have a BP Z-multi, which is exactly the same thing at double the price. I've just ordered more Barrow fittings off ebay too for my new project, again they cost half as much as the BP variants. Couldn't find one fitting I needed through so I bought an Alphacool part, they don't look as good.

Il have a look at your project.
 
It should hopefully be reconstructed at the end of the month.
Pictures arent the best as I only use my camera phone.
Some good stuff on ebay but nothing that fits my build.
Are you using selller called mizucooling?
 
Yeah looks like you have some EK bits 'n' pieces in there. I'll keep an eye out mate. Will be posting my new project soon too. Yeah I use them and also WCUK when Mizu don't have what I'm looking for. I've never had an issue buying from them and will continue to do so. For all my main stuff though I buy from OCUK, always have. Can't really beat they're service and the prices are always up to date.
 
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