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Unread 10-14-2001, 05:44 PM   #1
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Default JB Welding barbs... necessary?

I'm thinking of going the ghetto route, buying a heatercore at autozone, sawing off the in/outlet, and hooking it up that way. I've heard to attach hose barbs with JB Weld in the in/outlet. How necessary is this? Could I just put the tubes over the in/outlets (providing that they are able to fit) and use hose clamps? It's not the cost, rather that I wonder what the benefit is other than providing a mate for tubing that might not fit the in/outlet. Is that it?
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Unread 10-14-2001, 05:59 PM   #2
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I used JB Weld on my modified heatercore. It came w/ 5/8" fittings, but I put 1/2" hose barbs on it.

That's how it started. To be honest, i've seen leaks in H2O cooling, and it is something that I DO NOT want to deal with. JBWelding fittings on seemed the best way to go. I somehow needed to have it work w/ 1/2" hose. First i got some "sealant tape." It isn't sticky... it just wraps and then expands to form a seal. Here's a pic of that:

I could tell that that there was a quality seal. However, they were loose so I knew JB Welding to be a surefire way of having them stick . When it dried, it looked like this.

I was a bit sloppy w/ the JB Weld juts to make 100% sure that this heatercore wouldn't leak over my dead body. So now i have the final product and i'm not sure if I see the advantage to your way. What did you mean by using hose clamps? Are you talking bout hose reducers?
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Top notch work.

What I meant by hose clamps are the things that are in your car's cooling system, like on the radiator hoses? You can buy the ones that close tight with a screw.

Is the tape you used the same thing as teflon tape, used for attaching showerheads / plumbing fixtures?
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Unread 10-14-2001, 09:22 PM   #4
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Top notch work.
Thx bro. Hose clamps won't really work for what you're doing cuz the hose will still have a bigger ID than what you are putting it on. Even if you tighten it, the hose will have a bit of an opening. You can use larger hose for the heatercore and get a reducer for the hose (an adaptor basically). However, that is just one more thing you have to add on your line of hose. It is easiest to take the approach I did. It isn't teflon tape. It is some other stuff I found at Home Depot that looked like it would do that job . Teflon tape would probably work too. Hell, you don't need tape if you're gonna JB weld it. That was just a precaution I took.
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Heh, yeah I think the hose barb would work the best. Thanks - by the way, thanks for posting the pictures on how you did it, it helps give me an idea of how it should look when I'm done.
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No problem man. Check the root directory of the pictures. There's like 10 pictures all on how I did it. http://kevin.procooling.com . Look around there for heatercore. Click on it and you'll see more.
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Hey, did I see that you also got a JMC 120mm fan, the super quiet one from CaseETC? If so, how's that thing working out? Is it really that quiet?
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