Prevent cheap tubing kinking?

JonJ678 · 9 Apr 2009 at 08:08

Hey. Against common sense and general advice, I bought rubbish plastic tubing to connect watercooling things together. Consequently it kinks.

Is there anything I can do (preferably at negligible cost) to stop this? I've had a go with cable ties, but with little success.

Cheers

JonJ678 · 9 Apr 2009 at 13:57

Oh. Damn

JonJ678 · 10 Apr 2009 at 10:34

A few thoughts from someone who researched this heavily then ignored most advice.

Compression fittings suck. They twist the tubing as you tighten, which causes kinks.
Reservoirs/t lines are actually a very good idea
Removable motherboard trays are fantastic
Blue Feser one is definitely copper sulphate. I've just drunk a significant volume of it.
Cheap tubing will kink. But at least the hundreds of tiny cut offs don't matter.

Going so well

JonJ678 · 10 Apr 2009 at 19:10

Yeah, seen. I'm using 10/8mm tubing though, and the choice was tygon or brandless. I've temporarily solved the kinking problem by using massive loops of tubing. Succeeded in setting up my first loop without reservoir or t line, but I do feel slightly ill.

Loop is also ridiculously lopsided. With the gfx card overclocked and running furmark, fans spinning slowly, the gfx temp now goes up by 4 degrees. Definitely need to introduce more things into this loop.