I'm replacing mine with braided tubing tonight. I'm also thinking of making some metal rings to place every 2" or so to prevent this from happening again. I had probably 3.5" of hose completely collapsed upon itself. I was using standard aquarium tubing ... probably 2-3mm thick. Another thing I'm probably going to do is construct the entire "shell" of the cooling system in nylon/PVC tubing, and just have small amounts of flex tubing at a couple of pivot points for installation purposes. I got lucky, and I don't want to tempt fate again.
I was using a NurseryPro NPU500 pump. It pumps obscene amounts of water at very high heads ... it is really overpowered for what I was using it for (I could have used it to run a bong as well ... something I was seriously considering). I just bought a Supreme 350GPH inline pump last night for $50, and I'm going to give it a shot today. It has 1/2" threaded connections for PVC/nylon hose barbs on both ends (I really like that), and should give me extremely good flow in my rig (again, this pump has extremely high head rates with high GPH ... ). I haven't tested it yet, so I don't know quiet it is, but I do know that Supreme makes the NurseryPro and that was perfectly silent. I'll let you all know how it goes (this pump is rated for 5 years continuous service).
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