Anyone have experience with glass tube?

redleader · 06-25-2003, 05:44 PM

I'm not really considering it for PC watercooling, but I'm curious how it works.

Can you heat it and bend the pipe like with glass rods?

How do you join two glass parts together? Fittings of some sort?

How expensive is it?

Where could I get some cheap to play with? McMaster wants $4/ft for small tube.

Thanks.

RabidMoose · 06-25-2003, 06:31 PM

You mean like this stuff?

http://www.vwrsp.com/catalog/product...02&resultNum=0

I know it isn't cheap, but for this sort of thing I would check surplus scientific supply shops. I don't work with it, but it is usually used in situations with very corrosive chemicals and/or high temps (only one I could find a softening point for was 1500C)

Edit: Tubing linked above softens at 900C.

If this is what you want I'll ask some of the older researchers around here about how to work with it.

Edit: Asked one of my older co-workers about glass tubing. He said to just heat and bend, using a mold for larger tubing (a round block of wood can work). For connecting, maybe compression connectors like these?
http://www.kimble-kontes.com/html/pg-179920.html

airspirit · 06-26-2003, 03:14 PM

I only used the thin 1/4" lab tubing (fragile) and I'd mold it with a propane torch. *shrugs*. That would be a spectacularly bad idea, btw.

06-25-2003, 05:44 PM	#1
redleader Thermophile Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: The deserts of Tucson, Az Posts: 1,264	Anyone have experience with glass tube? I'm not really considering it for PC watercooling, but I'm curious how it works. Can you heat it and bend the pipe like with glass rods? How do you join two glass parts together? Fittings of some sort? How expensive is it? Where could I get some cheap to play with? McMaster wants $4/ft for small tube. Thanks.

06-25-2003, 06:31 PM	#2
RabidMoose Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: C-ville, VA Posts: 6	You mean like this stuff? http://www.vwrsp.com/catalog/product...02&resultNum=0 I know it isn't cheap, but for this sort of thing I would check surplus scientific supply shops. I don't work with it, but it is usually used in situations with very corrosive chemicals and/or high temps (only one I could find a softening point for was 1500C) Edit: Tubing linked above softens at 900C. If this is what you want I'll ask some of the older researchers around here about how to work with it. Edit: Asked one of my older co-workers about glass tubing. He said to just heat and bend, using a mold for larger tubing (a round block of wood can work). For connecting, maybe compression connectors like these? http://www.kimble-kontes.com/html/pg-179920.html Last edited by RabidMoose; 06-25-2003 at 06:48 PM.

06-26-2003, 03:14 PM	#3
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