Those plastic hose clamps

perfectturmoil · Jan 23, 2006

Hey.

Does anyone know if any normal stores carry those plastic hose clamps? You know, the ones that have the little teeth and you sqeeze em together?

I'm moving forward on the finishing of my watercooling rig today, and will need to clamp. Like, one small thing came with them, and they're kinda cool.. I'd rather use them instead of the metal screw clamps.

Do home depot or lowes or anything like that carry the plastic clamps? Or will I need to get the metal ones for now?

speed bump · Jan 23, 2006

Home depot and lowes should carry them. I know my Ace hardware carries them in the nuts and bolts section with all the bins. You might see if they have them in bins somewhere.

fhanderson · Jan 23, 2006

NAPA auto parts

sir_pyro · Jan 23, 2006

Out of curiosity, why do you prefer the little plastic ones to the beefy metal worm gear ones? Looks, ease of use?

They just seem a little insucure form my taste (tryed them, pull then right off and went back to worm gears), so that's why I'm wondering.

5|*42 · Jan 23, 2006

Microcenter has some too, if you have one near you.

Xoligy · Jan 23, 2006

Yea i hate the plastic ones i tried to fit some onto my 1/2" tubing which came with my new cpu block... no joy! I couldnt get them to fit round the tube and the barb went back to my trusty metal ones which take less room and there better imo

perfectturmoil · Jan 23, 2006

Well.. looks and ease of use were what I was going for... but I couldn't find em anyways.. so worm drive it is.. maybe later I will replace them.

MoreGooder · Jan 23, 2006

Swifty Apogee comes with the plastic hose clamps, and I couldn't use them even if I wanted too. There's not enough room between the two tubes if you use 1/2 ID 3/4 OD tubing. I just used two inexpensive worm gear clamps from Home Depot. Much better, and believe it or not, they BARELY sneak past each other between the tubes until you can tighten them up.

Don't bother with the plastic ones. Cheap and not very trustworthy IMHO.

deviantbox · Jan 24, 2006

perfectturmoil said:
Well.. looks and ease of use were what I was going for... but I couldn't find em anyways.. so worm drive it is.. maybe later I will replace them.

http://www.mcmaster.com/

Look for: Nylon Single Snap-Grip

Maviryk · Jan 24, 2006

Meh, clamps are overrated. I only use four in my entire setup, on the blocks themselves.

Flip-Mode · Jan 24, 2006

Maviryk said:
Meh, clamps are overrated. I only use four in my entire setup, on the blocks themselves.

You really like to love on the edge don't you? Please post here when you get a submerged pc. :bang head

Maviryk · Jan 24, 2006

My tubing is stretched tightly over all the barbs, it would take quite a bit of effort to pull them off. How often is anyone going to be tugging on the connections? Even if it does leak when I'm working on the case, it would be powered down. 7/16" ID tygon tubing over 1/2" OD barbs FTW.

Rev · Jan 24, 2006

It's probably secure without the clamps, I put them on for peace of mind. I like the metal worm ones a lot better than the plastics though. They seemed pretty flimsy.

Seven7Thirty30 · Jan 24, 2006

I use plastic. Never had any problems, and they work just fine.

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