What's better than tygon?

wreckwriter · Mar 8, 2008

Most of my parts came in today! Gotta say I'm not comfortable with the Tygon tubing. This stuff is very thin-walled and kinks with very little bend. There has to something better, maybe even at Home Depot??

Thanks!

LucrativeFuture · Mar 8, 2008

What Tygon did you get? (R3603, R1000 etc.)

wreckwriter · Mar 8, 2008

R3603; obviously the wrong kind

LucrativeFuture · Mar 8, 2008

No, R3603 is the norm. I don't know why you would have that problem. Do you have the 3/4" OD or 5/8" OD?

wreckwriter · Mar 8, 2008

LucrativeFuture said:
No, R3603 is the norm. I don't know why you would have that problem. Do you have the 3/4" OD or 7/16" OD?

Oddly it seems neither. Its 1/2 ID but the wall thickness is not 1/8, more like 1/16. Bad batch maybe??

edit- my math is not good when I'm mad I guess... its 5/8 OD, was supposed to be 3/4. Damn, now I'm out of business while I wait for another shipment.

Suprchargd · Mar 9, 2008

The 5/8 OD kinks easily from my short experience with it when you try to do very tight turns, like say from a CPU barb to a NB block barb. The 3/4 OD is much better in my opinion.

wreckwriter · Mar 9, 2008

Agreed. I've ordered some 3/4 from a different vendor.

Mycobacteria · Mar 12, 2008

Never had a problem with the thick walled tygon:

I use the 1/2" ID 3/4" OD....

wreckwriter · Mar 13, 2008

Mycobacteria said:
Never had a problem with the thick walled tygon:

I use the 1/2" ID 3/4" OD....

Thanks. I have some of the thick-walled type now, will use it.

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