stoppers for a t-line

drsomewhat · Jun 8, 2004

What are you guys using as a stopper for a T-line on your watercooling systems? Just curious, want to set mine up this week.

MuEagle05 · Jun 8, 2004

i have a marble stuck in the top of mine.

jamesavery22 · Jun 8, 2004

Something a little less ghetto:

http://amos2.catalogcity.com/amos/cc/main/catalog/act/d,482066/pcd/8101163/ccsyn/254

Seen smaller versions of them at home depot before. Not sure about that one but the ones Ive seen, the caps just screw on and off, pretty ideal.

Kbofwy · Jun 8, 2004

Here's what I use for a cap on my T. The pic shows a 3/4" barb instead of 1/2", but the other end is a garden hose thread. Then just add a screw-on cap with a rubber washer or an 0-ring. But I do like the marble idea. Cheap and clean. :clap:

edit: oops, James beat me to it

[KX3]rAge · Jun 8, 2004

would one of THESE work? or would it be to hard to get in and out...

NiTrO bOiE · Jun 8, 2004

For now, I just use a "t" as a stopper. Yes, I know the water can still leak out if I were to turn the computer upside, but why would i turn the PC upside down?

johan851 · Jun 8, 2004

I use a "test plug." Take a normal coupling, cut it in half, and stop up the end. Basically what it looks like.

Kinda like this: http://www.pexconnection.com/bestpex/images/sweatadptrs.jpg but cleaner.

MuEagle05 · Jun 8, 2004

[KX3]rAge said:
would one of THESE work? or would it be to hard to get in and out...

Wouldn't work. Neither would a "T". The point of a stopped is to seal the t-line to reduce the amount of evaporation out of the system. As well as keep the water from leaking out.

Sean Lindstrom · Jun 8, 2004

Expansion plugs.

I like the cam lever style better, but haven't seen it around for a while, except as a carbonated beverage stopper... which might serve well enough.

drsomewhat · Jun 8, 2004

interesting stuff so far... my friend has been using a AA battery, been working for him for a long time now, no corrosion.

coolroyboy2 · Jun 8, 2004

The end from crayola marker tube, the tapered point kiddy kind, fits perfectly and has ribs to seal with no clamp.

diehrd · Jun 8, 2004

I just hold my finger in it.(JK)

Joe Camel · Jun 8, 2004

my local hardware store (true-value i think) had black rubber stoppers ($.65) in lots of sizes...works GREAT! if you cram it in good, its water (air) tight.

before i found them, i used the end of my girlfriends blush brush and a hose clamp. (cut off the brush part) or the top to her nail polish bottle. needless to say, we were both happy to find the rubber stoppers

A-Speck · Jun 9, 2004

If you go with a screw-type stopper at the end of the T-line, make sure it has an O-ring in it, or else you might as well leave it open for all the good it will do you.

ZachM · Jun 9, 2004

I use a 1/2" NTP threaded barb with a threaded PVC cap. Found the cap at ACE and I got a 10 pack of barbs from MC Master (needed one for my pump anyways). Seals up the T as well as any other connections in the system (which I hope are air tight

).

Guderian · Jun 10, 2004

I like the cam lever style better, but haven't seen it around for a while, except as a carbonated beverage stopper... which might serve well enough.

It does....

thorilan · Jun 11, 2004

you can also just try adding a valve

( a quarter turn one would work pretty good)

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