Quick disconnect

Avathar77 · 2 Nov 2011 at 18:23

What! expensive for you! what have you done with cleeecooo??

Cleeecooo · 2 Nov 2011 at 18:24

lol!!!
Not expensive as such, just a waste as I'm going to chuck them straight away. £50 down the drain instead of £18

Avathar77 · 2 Nov 2011 at 18:25

hmmm when are you going to test? and how many do you need?

Cleeecooo · 2 Nov 2011 at 18:28

Need 2 complete sets and Will be testing over the next 2 weeks

moogle · 2 Nov 2011 at 18:29

Cleeecooo said:
I'm going to be comparing 2 rads soon, so that's not really something i want to be doing :/

Is it easy to remove tubing off compression fittings? If it is you could just drain the loop a bit so you can remove the tubing off the rads and replace. Although I'm imagining an open bench setup

JeffyB · 2 Nov 2011 at 18:30

I'd just put a towel down and undo the compression, have the next rad pre filled with water ready to attach and mop up any spillage

Avathar77 · 2 Nov 2011 at 18:32

I was entertaining the idea of lending my 2 sets of VL4's in the name of research! But I think it is not going to happen as I will be testing my loop next week as well. Sorry.
But if you are looking to buy make sure the ID and OD both fit! OCUK does not list the OD of the fittings and most are 5/8 size, while others are 3/4, hard to tell.

moogle · 2 Nov 2011 at 18:32

I've got a 60ml syringe thingy (not the metal needle ones) and some 6mm tubing on it and I just put it in the res and remove the coolant

Quite handy if you haven't implemented a drainage system.

Avathar77 · 2 Nov 2011 at 18:34

If you have 2 ball valves you can do the same eh?

moogle · 2 Nov 2011 at 18:46

True, but the coolant will still come out of the tube unless you have 2 more valves on those

Cleeecooo · 2 Nov 2011 at 18:55

moogle said:
Is it easy to remove tubing off compression fittings? If it is you could just drain the loop a bit so you can remove the tubing off the rads and replace. Although I'm imagining an open bench setup

It is, but a QDC would be easier. And ATM, i pretty much do have an open test bench

JeffyB said:
I'd just put a towel down and undo the compression, have the next rad pre filled with water ready to attach and mop up any spillage

I'd rather spend £18 and save myself the hassle. Have a wanted thread up in 2 forums ATM

Avathar77 said:
I was entertaining the idea of lending my 2 sets of VL4's in the name of research! But I think it is not going to happen as I will be testing my loop next week as well. Sorry.
But if you are looking to buy make sure the ID and OD both fit! OCUK does not list the OD of the fittings and most are 5/8 size, while others are 3/4, hard to tell.

Thanks fot the thought anyway

moogle said:
I've got a 60ml syringe thingy (not the metal needle ones) and some 6mm tubing on it and I just put it in the res and remove the coolant

Quite handy if you haven't implemented a drainage system.

not too sure how that would work.

I'll have a decent draining system, especially considering i've got over 100 fittings

moogle · 2 Nov 2011 at 19:03

Cleeecooo said:
not too sure how that would work.

Well like if I gotta remove the CPU block I just drain my system with the syringe a little and the water level drops (on the CPU tubing), I remove tubing and put in new CPU block and barbs and fill back up, cycle the pump a bit to drain the air and I'm back in business.

Back when I had an Antec 1200 (heavy s.o.b just on it's own) I had to tilt it around to remove coolant

Cleeecooo · 2 Nov 2011 at 19:05

moogle said:
Well like if I gotta remove the CPU block I just drain my system with the syringe a little and the water level drops (on the CPU tubing), I remove tubing and put in new CPU block and barbs and fill back up, cycle the pump a bit to drain the air and I'm back in business.

Back when I had an Antec 1200 (heavy s.o.b just on it's own) I had to tilt it around to remove coolant

ah okay. Might be worth looking into for later...

Want QDC's naow!!!!

Barrybear · 2 Nov 2011 at 21:04

The EX480 is a very nice radiator check out my build im using 1 of these in it.