Case door mounted coupler?

[GilmourD]

I'm looking to drill two holes in my case door and use 1/2" tubing couplers that will pass through those holes and can be bolted into those holes. However, I haven't found anything that looks explicitly like what I want. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

 

[BillParrish]

Not sure if you want quick disconnect or not but it appears you are talking about a "Bulkhead" fitting.

These guys have about everything, hope it helps.

http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/ca...ic&Category_Name=28951&Page=1&clickid=leftnav

Mcmaster.com is good source too but you can get lost in there and never come out.

 

[EvilTwinSkippy]

Why not just use grommets with an ID that's the same as your tubing OD? Like THIS.

By doing so you aren't adding restriction and you'll have four less clamps.

 

[GilmourD]

Why not just use grommets with an ID that's the same as your tubing OD? Like THIS.

By doing so you aren't adding restriction and you'll have four less clamps.

For modular reasons. I could change whatever I want on the outside without having to change the inside. Or I could move things very easilly.

 

[ziddey]

For modular reasons. I could change whatever I want on the outside without having to change the inside. Or I could move things very easilly.

yeah that's a pretty good reason. Personally, I've got a pretty decent loop going on, but the rad is still being overloaded at times. I'd like to be able to hook up something else. I think I have a beat up car radiator somewhere that might be copper. It'd be cool to be able to hook up to that and then disconnect and say hook up a U hose or just have quickconnects so that it's a parallel loop and when shut it'd just go all through the main rad or something

 

[EvilTwinSkippy]

For modular reasons. I could change whatever I want on the outside without having to change the inside. Or I could move things very easilly.

Ummm.... hmmmm........

Let's walk thru this real quick. You want to change a device on the outside of your case. You could A) detach the device from the pass-thru connectors, then detach the pieces of tubing that connected the device to the pass-thru, or B) detach the tubing that runs through grommets and is directly connected to your device. The pass-thru offers no benefit to you in this case unless you're using quick connects.

A PCI pass-thru bracket makes sense as you're modifying an existing hole to allow you to run tubing through it, but if you're drilling new holes, why add restriction when you don't need to? I can't imagine you'd be changing WC devices out so frequently that you would need this feature.