So we're continuing on with my personal build here, which is Dusty.

It's or even sitting out here long enough.

But as I showed you in the last video, we clearly went with a We got a blue and purple sort of a theme that's gonna happen with all the lighting, which is why we called it Nebula.

And I shouldn't have publicly said that on the video.

I know I said it on Twitter, but we're calling it Nebula both after the emcee.

You character, You know, Daniels is half biological, half mechanical daughter as well as discussed the lighting.

Looks like a nebula you see in space.

What does that mean?

You're Panos, As you can see here, we've got a bit of a bling bling thing going on.

And a lot of you were kind of like J.

What do you do for the tubes?

Glass tubes, glass tubes?

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How about chrome plated brass toots?

That's how you bring the bring bring to your build.

Bring, bring.

So anyway, what we're looking at right here is actually Alfa Cools hard tube because the naming is so original.

We're not doing the full loop today.

We're gonna probably like we'll look together the graphics cards just You can kind of see what looks like in there.

But what I want to do is I want to test their new fittings because the problem with brass tubing Well, okay, each one of these boxes is one of its power, does it?

They're just in little Ziploc baggies that you can just tear open, not with all this wasted cardboard.

So these are 13 millimeter outer diameter.

I like 13 millimeter tube over 14 especially when it comes to metal, because the actual diameter of the inside doesn't really make a difference to this.

Looks ugly.

This is already cut in sand.

It I've already done some testing.

This is what it actually looks like.

A ship.

It's a nice, smooth, papered edge that has nickel plating that goes into the inside a little bit.

But as you can see what you cut it, it is definitely brass tubing.

But jato mixture, metals brass is fine.

That's why just about every fitting is brass when it comes to home construction and stuff, and then you have copper piping and all that sort of stuff.

Brass is fine.

This is 13 millimeter by 10 millimeter, which is the same size Petey G like P T.

G.

Stuff that I like to use.

There's not a lot of fitting options at 14 million.

And not only that, Alfa Cool makes 13 millimeter clamping compression fittings, and I say clamping because it's slippery, it's really smooth.

And so the problem is, at least the way that article was explaining it to me is there compressions are designed specifically for this kind of tube, and I said, well, probably just used the primo chill 13 millimeter cause they've got this really thick a ring which has always clamped down really good on like P.

T.

G and stuff and they were like, Well, we're gonna send you our fittings anyway, trying out Tell us what you think.

Because you'll find that, uh, the O ring itself is probably not gonna be enough.

And as the heat goes up on, the pressure does build cause it can.

It does build pressure inside the system, anything that sealed and has a temperature change from hot to cold or cold.

The hot has an increase of pressure in a decrease in pressure.

It's not on camera, but I actually was demonstrating to Nick once when he was working for me.

What happens if you hold a heat gun on a radiator with the pump going and no fans, it popped the tube right off the pump and sent like a 10 foot wall of water going straight up for a few seconds and he was doing the like he didn't know what to do.

He was like, I'm gonna get a talent and I don't know, uh, Alfa Cool has been shocking the ever living crap out of me for the last year or so.

One of the first companies I ever worked with.

In fact, the first water cooling company I ever worked with was Alfa Cool.

The problem was they were very notorious for things coming, scratched, indented, and I got to the point where I actually told them guys, I can't work with you anymore because I can't keep promoting a product that scratches and dents and stuff.

They promise years ago, about five years, almost six years ago, that they're changing their manufacturing.

They're redoing everything, and that will win me back.

Well, they have.

What's funny is other brands that have been known as being the industry leader have fallen off in quality over the years, and that's what happens when you become complacent.

You stagnate and everyone else catches up and passes you, which is what we're all hoping happens to in video.

But I digress again.

So hear that.

Hear the fittings.

Here's a primo chill.

13 by 10.

Here's the awful cool.

13 by 10 right off the bat.

One of the things that I really like here is if you look inside the Alfa cool fitting, it's a hex head, so if this gets stuck, you don't have to take pliers to the outside of the threads to turn it.

You can just grab a hex head, Allen key and tight knit and loosen, as you can see here, the primo chills just made up of the main sitting.

It's got the part that the two being actually goes in.

It's got one clamping, ordering one caller.

If you look at the Alfa cool stuff, you've got an inner o ring in their notice that inside the primo chill, there is no inner ring so that in a roaring is responsible for stealing it.

You've got this collar which, as you can see, is tapered and you see how it's also split.

So what this does is as you tighten down the collar, this squishes together and pushes against the actual metal.

You then have this plastic washer.

You then have another O ring responsible for for the compression or the friction of pulling the tube out.

And then you've got the caller which locks that all down.

I'm gonna go to tubes and then we're going to kind of do, Ah, a little bit of a test here to see which holds better.

One thing I will be doing that when I do my bills that will be lightly sanding the end for a little bit extra fiction.

You can't see it, so it doesn't matter.

So this would be color.

Which problem?

Number one doesn't fit.

Even though this is advertising the 13 mil.

Let me try another one.

That these air older collars and they did change them later on.

See?

So that's one thing you gotta think about when it comes to promote she'll Both of these are advertises 10 by 13.

Because that has a plating.

And the tolerance is so tight.

The black fits where this does not.

I'm gonna test it with another pipe just to see if there was this difference in variance in the pipe.

No, it doesn't fit two of them.

I wanna make sure premature couldn't come back and say, Well, there tube is too big.

But as you can see, these are both the same size, and there's a difference between the two of them.

So chrome is already out.

I couldn't use them if I wanted, but now we're gonna test it with black.

So you'll go caller.

A ring fitting that's on there.

As good as it'll go.

Okay, that's pretty good.

I don't I don't think I'd have to worry about that popping off.

So I mean, I even said Thio Alfa cool that the premature as great clamping force is why I've always used it.

You look at that.

It's moving the whole trade.

Let's go and compare it now to the to the Alfa Cool stuff got caller brass caper goes towards the cap Then it goes plastic washer.

Then it goes ring, which again is really thick just like the premature one.

So then we'll twist that as we go into here There isn't a ring that's already like that.

It's not even clamped down.

Okay, so we're gonna test right now, is I'm gonna I'm gonna sand the end and see how much better that clamping force is.

All we're trying to do is rough up the surface because this is the opposite of what you were watching us too, when we painted this thing we want.

Oh, yeah, that's already grabby.

And the reason why I'm going like this instead of that is I'm trying to make you spirals in there to give it more bite in that lateral direction A little bit extra work, But there's a lot of extra work involved with metal tubes, especially when it's time to cut it.

I always twist when I stick it in the hole because you don't want it cutting anything on swaying the sensitive area.

I wish you could see feels feels all No, no, I'm not even I'm not even like I mean, I'm purposely not even acknowledging that.

I'm saying in urine does YouTube policies have changed.

That's really what it is.

Oh, so do you think we have more bite now?

You pull it here.

Hold the camera, quick.

Ugo Ugo, how much does it take?

Oh, cheese.

Oh, no.

You said you didn't cause a mark.

That's good.

But obviously, now we have to show you how to cut it.

Okay, that loosened up.

So that's good.

I stuff these pliers to get the premature off.

That's how tight the premature was in there.

Now, do you see why having that Allen key or Alan head on the inside is nice?

I still want to scratch them.

I haven't used pliers on them to get the fitting off like this.

That's why having that Alan in there this super nice.

See that?

You and same thing for installing it.

You can get it nice and snug with the O ring and then just a little bit of a turn installed.

All right, So now how do you cut this tube?

What?

Here's what we're gonna do.

We're gonna put fittings here and here.

I'm doing a parallel loop between both of these and I'm going to put the fittings in there.

I'm gonna measure it, though, by using P t G.

I'm going to sacrifice some of our brand new primo chill tubing because this metal tube is a lot more expensive than this plastic tube.

In fact, you can get like three pieces of this for one of those.

This is all about bling has nothing to do with practicality.

It's expensive again because you have a tool.

Now when you're screwing this into plastic, do not over tight and just go to snug and that's it.

It's over in that ceiling.

It's not sealing based on thread tension.

So here's what we need to do.

Now.

I need to take my P t.

G.

I also need to take my SL I bridge, which in this case, we're just going to use a bear.

PCB one because of our failed video of trying to do chrome, which, by the way, I watched Adam Savage's video about using that stuff and I figured out what we did wrong.

He was actually adding it to lacquer.

I was spinning it.

I don't want to thin it.

Technically, we're thickening it.

So we're gonna try it again.

Just we're not going to be suffered to that video again.

We'll just show you in the next build log turned out.

So the reason why I put the bridge in here is because the bridge is gonna keep these cards at an equal distance.

The problem is, they can sag differently and stuff, so I always make sure I test with the bridge in place.

That's not good enough right there, because it's it's closer together on the end.

Then here, So that tells me that's too short.

So I'm just gonna mark about right there, Cutback just behind it to use my tool to get it good to me between this ship operate on without being out of How did that happen?

It looked good, but I mean, you know, sometimes you just need a second opinion.

That's okay.

so we can just trim a couple millimeters at a time with this school.

That's why I love that duel.

And working with the G better looks pretty good.

It's so let's cut two of them Now, let's see.

There we go.

The reason I'm doing these I know.

I'm gonna be parallel on this loop.

I'm sure anyone that's ever like a plumber out there is looking at this going O J.

That's You don't want that one you want with longer handles.

You can really wrench on it.

This'll just not give me a lot of torque, not dimension.

I'm holding something slippery.

So what?

This is this is a pipe, Cho.

You got a blade that basically is squishing its way into the metal and spreading it out.

And then you've got a little roller here that keeps it in place, so rolls along the metal.

What you do is you tighten it down, makes turns tight knit again.

Go around.

This is now.

Why, Like I said, having a bigger handle would be nice to have more leverage.