Quality of Swiftech quick connectors

[martindemon]

Is Swiftech quick connections as safe as barbs with clamps? If i buy the kit, i know it will be prefilled. But if i want to add a waterblock or change the tubing with tygon, i must unplug and replug it. If i put silicone in the quick connects, plug all, run it for some times, and redo the tubes, old silicone will be there. Is it cleanable? Do i really need to use silicone? Or do quick connects work fine alone? Or is teflon tape good for quick connects?

Other option would be to replace the quick connects with 1/2" barbs but i'm not sure about the safest thing to do. I consider the CPU and GPU waterblocks. I am tempted by the barebone because the liteon case is great and i cannot find a way to buy it Now so the barebone would give it to me...

[rogerdugans]

I've been using a Swiftech kit, including the quick disconnects since last February and think they are the balls:)

But I would recommend you replace them with barbs and hose clamps (and then send them to me :D)

Seriously: I tinker with this rig quite a bit, and have tried many different ideas out on this system, disconnecting and reconnecting tubing a number of times- if not hundreds, then close to it: zero leaks.
Even though I occasionally yank on them slightly moving my external radiator from inside to outside my window.

[martindemon]

You mean you used no silicone and no teflon tape?

[rogerdugans]

The quick disconnects that came with my H202c kit require nothing, and that is what I use: nothing but stick the tubes in.

The fittings in the waterblock and Eheim pump were preinstalled and I have had no need to remove them. All the tees and valves have been removed and reinstalled many times with nothing whatsoever, and again: zero leaks.