Fair play. I saw a guy in a tutorial with the heat gun mounted & he was rolling the tube in front of it, & then as it started to go flexible he bent it & placed it down.
It seems there is definitely a technique & it may vary for different tube manufacturers.
To me, the question would be how many tubes will I go through before I get the technique?
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It should be easy enough to get the hard tubing especially if you use 90-degree fittings. having said so I will be attempting glass instead of PETG /Acrylic and see how it goes 
. I’ll give it a go and post pictures when done. first, I need to get all the hardware components then design the loop.
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Congrats!! That’s a sweet setup!
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I have built a few rigid tubing machines and found bending the tubes a bit tricky . You need a bending jig and a heat gun and make sure you get rid of ALL the particles of plastic before you install the tubing because the clearance in the water bocks is minimal . Here is my current build .
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Wow! That’s hardcore. 
I didn’t even know “hardline” was an option. I’ve stayed away from liquid cooling, because it seems like too much effort. I upgrade my system on a continual basis and air cooling is so much simpler. Granted, I have a bunch of fans, but they are all good quality quiet fans. It’s not all that noisy, even though my system is overclocked.
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Yeah it weighs a tonne. I luv gadgets 
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Wow very nice , lots of bling . How many power supplies have you accidentally fried . I have fried 2 .
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jealous. water cooling (and screwing it up) stresses me out. i wish i had more time in my life to learn this skill
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Thanks ! 
also gonna try hard tubing later this year !
Never happend to me, but I always leak test for at least 6h or so…
How did it happen to you?
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Lol oh Jesus you guys 
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They do even copper or glass tubing, Neal.
Or steel.
It seems kinda waste of effort though, soon after you realize the hardware is outdated, so gotta do it again 
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If you have look at my pic my tubing has a lot of connections and every one is a potential leak during testing . Both times it was my fault for being lazy and not covering the power supply and it only takes one little drop of coolant .
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I luv the industrial look .
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It looks nice tho the tubes should be polished . Googled the pic.
It seems I’m quite restrained compared to you guys btw.
I think I posted this here already, but:
I think it’s missing the MSI mascot
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Even though I appreciate the steam-punk factor of the nice tubes, I never could really justify the effort and the maintenance. Right now when surfing my case is so silent that I hear my monitor more. When I start some game, I usually also put on my closed headphones, so the noise does not bother me either. Nice work though
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Yeah, tuning a PC is just a hobby itself.
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Another watercooler here with my rig (its had a new GPU since) - I also designed and built my own CNC router, which engraved the front and cut the ED logo on the back:
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I love the etched case window! The metal cutout looks even better. Great mod!
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I am using a Vega 56 card atm. I am planning to switch to an VII once versions with improved cooling start emerging.
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