60 second guide for cutting and bending acrylic hardline tubing

Since I firmly believe acrylic to be the superior material over PETG, I wanted to make a short tutorial on how to cut and bend PMMA ( acrylic ) tubing / hard tubing perfectly every time.

My preferred tubing size is by far 10/14mm acrylic tubing. It is easy to bend, and looks fantastic in all builds.

I normally don't use a bending guide, and instead do the bends free hand. When you heat up the tube the same way each time, the bends will have the same radius, and thus look alike.

If you tubes starts to bubble, then you heated it too much. If it kinks, crumbles, or you get flat spots on the tube, you did not heat it enough.

Happy bending!

Music by Joakim Karud

[IndrasilDesignStudio]

"The wider the area of the tube you heat up, the bigger the radius is gonna be."

Thank you! Now I know why my bends have such huge radii! This piece of info will come in handy when I'll come around to re-do the tubing.

[minhajul]

this is the kind of quality content i subscribed for

[Paddydapro]

Dude I fucking love this channel.. I have not seen anything even close to as perfect as your overall aesthetics and perfection specifically for cable management and customisation.. I prefer the slick looks and attention to detail your builds have over any other over the top "design" ones here on youtube..

[laterwell]

I really like this kind of short video

[michaelsotomayor]

you shouldn't miss out on the youtube money.. you should upload once a week if possible.. Your builds and guides would help out a lot of us new comers.

[Thomas-fkep]

Placing it on the edge of a table for a 90 degree bend was genius. Ty for sharing.

[muhammadabdul]

Great man your videos good luck all so

[ChrisZomboid]

You should do another solids video next time you have to make a distro or some kind of water block. Love the high quality projects.

[VroxTTV]

Dude you make this look easy I've wasted 8 tubes trying to do a simple 90 I keep getting a flare where the bend is

[Famine]

The clamp mounted to the table used in the beginning, cut thru the middle of it in the same spot, doesn't hurt the clamp, it still works & it will hold both ends of the pipe still without any part hanging off while you saw that can screw up your cut, or use two clamps.

[DeanhSaputra]

What kind of silicone you use it for bending. Where can i get it sir?

[fernna]

Can you use a rubber rod instead of silicone? Thanks for the video!

[garagemaudaz]

The black thing inside the tube, what is it? Is it silicone? Did you bought it or made it? Can I go over 90°?

[Kurashinno]

Where do you get the tube bending kick? The thing that holds it in place?

[KLP]

What is the black cable?
Silicone tube?

[robertfowler]

Where can I find the silicone insert online to order? I'm having trouble finding a 1.25" tube. Thanks!

[johntexan]

What is this silicon insert you are talking about? Can you provide a link?

[traincrazyb]

I was wondering, What heat gun do you use, what size insert are you using and where could I get that tube retainer?

[TrojanX]

Bro can you show us how can we make gpu waterblock in descent budget

[ravagek]

Links to these items would have been great if you see this can you find some? Particularly the thing that held the tube in place.