New phanteks fittings fit both soft and hard tubing

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Phanteks have announced fittings
For both hard and soft tube at 16mm
Pushfit style connect and release fittings
Means no more needing 2 types of fittings for hard and soft tubing

They will also come preinstalled on phanteks blocks,radiators etc
Though how much that might increase cost
I don't know
 
Be interesting to see some reviews of these
Used in actual loops
I know @Vidar tried some sort
Of pushfit fittings a while back for hard tube
With not good results
Plus think removing the tube in situ was almost
Impossible for him
Not phanteks ones I forget what manufacturer he tried

499 what's included for that?
 
To answer my own question
And also to point out these fittings seem to protrude
Way less

Phanteks also unveiled the new Glacier EZ-Fit line of liquid cooling components that include CPU and GPU radiators, pump, tubing, and fittings, and will also be available as a full kit with all the bells and whistles. The list of components includes the EZ-Fit 360 GPU radiator, EZ-Fit 450 CPU CPU block, EZ-Fit 140RES-D5 Reservoir with D5 Pump, as well as various soft and hard tubes, fittings and tools. Phanteks will also offer it in kits, as a Glacier EZ-Fit 360 SOFT-KIT, priced at $399.99/€399.90, and Glacier EZ-Fit 360 D30-KIT, which also comes with D30 fans.
 
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I'm confused. Those EZ-Fit connectors are for hard tube. How do they work for soft tube? There's nothing to compress the soft tube against.

Is there a proper demo of Phanteks showing this?
 
LePhuronn said:
I'm confused. Those EZ-Fit connectors are for hard tube. How do they work for soft tube? There's nothing to compress the soft tube against.

Is there a proper demo of Phanteks showing this?
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Not that I have seen yet
With soft tubing anyways
Seen them shove hard tube in there
And remove it
But again not in a fully built loop
Where I wonder if can remove hard Tubing without
Having to cut it
If both ends are connected to components
That have no movement in them
 
Back in 2003 I bought a WaterChill custom kit sort of like the Phanteks kit apart from the pump straight from a fish tank :)

Anyway the fittings were pretty common push fit for soft tubing from aquariums. They worked fine so long as you cut the pipe straight, seated the tube fully and then didn't fiddle with the PC while it was running. I may have caused a few drops to escape by doing that a couple of times.

I am kinda starting to come round to trying a custom a loop again now.
 
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bimbleuk said:
Back in 2003 I bought a WaterChill custom kit sort of like the Phanteks kit apart from the pump straight from a fish tank :)

Anyway the fittings were pretty common push fit for soft tubing from aquariums. They worked fine so long as you cut the pipe straight, seated the tube fully and then didn't fiddle with the PC while it was running. I may have caused a few drops to escape by doing that a couple of times.

I am kinda starting to come round to trying a custom a loop again now.
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The cost nowadays for a loop is definitely
Not a small amount
Especially if you have no parts laying around
To use to keep costs down
Pc cases with plastic/glass side panels mean aesthetics are
More important nowadays
Which increases cost

Back in the old days
Yeah we used all sorts of stuff
Might have looked like a frankenstein affair lol
But it did the job
And most pc cases then had solid side panels
Aesthetics wasn't really an issue

Members market probably your best bet
To get loop parts at a half reasonable price
 
Jay85 said:
Cooler Master also has some interesting fittings coming! Square tubing anyone?
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Wouldn't be able to bend square tubing
Would you?

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Might be possible
Though I would imagine would need
Some sort of aid to stop the sides collapsing outwards
As you applied a bend
Certainly not as easy as bending round tubing
 
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Mcnumpty2323 said:
Wouldn't be able to bend square tubing
Would you?

Edit
Might be possible
Though I would imagine would need
Some sort of aid to stop the sides collapsing outwards
As you applied a bend
Certainly not as easy as bending round tubing
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Need to find the post again but most likely would be using angle adapters instead of bending the tubing.
 
Jay85 said:
Need to find the post again but most likely would be using angle adapters instead of bending the tubing.
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Yeah angle adapter doesn't look as clean
I think bending it's possible
But would need some sort of forme/jig
Or whatever the correct name is for what I am
Trying to picture in my head lol
 
Vidar jogged my memory lol
Barrow wolverine were the "pushfit" fittings he had
A lot of issues with
Hopefully the phanteks ones solve those issues
 
newuser said:
Are these the same as shark bite plumbing fittings then?
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Similar idea

Not used pushfit plumbing stuff in years
So things may have changed
But used to use inserts
And a removal tool to get them off

These phanteks fittings so far anyway
I haven't seen mention of inserts or removal tool
But neither have I seen them used on soft tubing yet
 
Also curious how it deals with
The difference in wall thickness between hard tube
And soft tube
My zmt wall thickness must be 3x more
Than hard tube
Can only think there's a channel the end of the tube
Goes into
And the channel is able to vary its width
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Similar idea

Not used pushfit plumbing stuff in years
So things may have changed
But used to use inserts
And a removal tool to get them off

These phanteks fittings so far anyway
I haven't seen mention of inserts or removal tool
But neither have I seen them used on soft tubing yet
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Interesting idea.
Compression fittings work work enough for ZMT.
Used to use chillers and such at work, just used bulk tubing and barbs.
Might be good for the pretty boys. ;)
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Also curious how it deals with
The difference in wall thickness between hard tube
And soft tube
My zmt wall thickness must be 3x more
Than hard tube
Can only think there's a channel the end of the tube
Goes into
And the channel is able to vary its width
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This is why I want to see a proper demo of the fitting being used with both soft and hard tubes. You can't secure soft tube using outer compression only, the tube will squish. This is why everything has a barb inside. Hard tube doesn't need something to hook onto internally, so wall thickness doesn't matter.

I don't think these are universal fittings at all, more likely somebody's misunderstood some badly-written marketing spiel.
 
LePhuronn said:
This is why I want to see a proper demo of the fitting being used with both soft and hard tubes. You can't secure soft tube using outer compression only, the tube will squish. This is why everything has a barb inside. Hard tube doesn't need something to hook onto internally, so wall thickness doesn't matter.

I don't think these are universal fittings at all, more likely somebody's misunderstood some badly-written marketing spiel.
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Yeah could be a translation error
Somewhere
Or you might need inserts
When using soft tube
Though still leaves wall thickness difference
To deal with
 
@LePhuronn
And everyone else I guess lol

Have seen it demonstrated with soft tubing now
As I suggested at one point
With soft tubing you use an insert

Basically same as I did with plumbing pushfit stuff
A great many years ago
No idea if modern plumbing stuff still needs inserts
 
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