Former glass worker here, go find yourself a glass supplier, you are in Cali, there are plenty of workers there. Youll be able to find much longer lengths and colors as well, just be sure to have plenty of ventilation as these use heavy metals for colors. Items you need: glass saw, bucket with water to throw hot scraps in, blow tube. Second edit: STOP cooling your hot glass, hot glass need to cool as slow as possible to retain strength. Third edit: didymium glasses, save your eyes.

I have total confidence that you could make it work but I'd really love to see you do a collab with an actual glass blower. Having the runs be intricate and artistic in a way that only a pro could do would really make for a stand out piece. It could be a learning experience for you and the result would be an absolute one off crazy loop.

Soda-lime glass is your common glass used for plate glass windows, drinking glasses and vases. Boro-silicate glass is very resistant to thermal shock. It is used for baking dishes, laboratory glassware and tempered glass.

For future reference you could always just do what we in the glass industry call flame fixing the edge of cut glass. Look into it because it's where we use a Mapp, propane or oxy/propane flame to heat the glass cut till it just starts to round the edges with no need for a file or sanding cause if you get even a slight rough edge it will over time will allow water and cooling mix to degrade your o-rings.

That second bend turned out pretty swell tbh. Well done. Yes to the next glass build. Crystal Palace.

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I've put together several glass tube builds. I've found that just sticking to 90 degree bends using fittings to be the best DIY method. If you want bends in the tubes, stick to PETG.

Very happy that you mentioned safety concerns of glass dust! SO many videos ignore this. Not talking trash, just some advice: mainly, get yourself some didymium safety glasses to protect your eyes from the sodium flare you mentioned (the bright red that comes off the glass once hot). You don't want to expedite the cooling of glass after heating. Ideally, you use a kiln to allow it to cool over the course of several hours. A tool to help - nothing really, since MAPP + air is working, but attaching your torch to your bench and rotating the glass by hand can help. A drawing of the angle you want can help, esp if rotating by hand, then you can move the glass to the drawing to make sure your angle is correct. Neonworking torch if you want to go all out.

I’d certainly love to see a glass tube build. What might be cool is one that really went heavy on the clarity and shine of glass, pairing the tubing up with a case with lots of clear glass elements, adding lighting so that the final effect produces lots of sparkle. A crystal build.

For those that attempt to play with glass, please wear the proper protective eyewear so you don't ruin your eyesight. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didymium

Please do another glass tubing build with as little fittings and as much exposed tubing as possible, love this content too btw 👍

Former glassblower here (lampwork/art glass running oxy/propane borosilicate). I wouldn't bother with the drill. You can rotate it in your hands at a speed appropriate to prevent slumping and once you get temperature, you can make a better bend using both your hands. The heat doesn't travel far up the glass but you need to know where the glass is hot. For scoring glass, a tungsten carbide blade is best imo. Hold it at an angle against the glass with the cutter in your hand and finger over the tube holding it against the blade, and spin the tube against the blade to get the ideal score. I never considered water-cooled glass rigs but it would be interesting to try if I ever got my studio set up again. A lot of cool techniques could be incorperated.

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“When the flame turns orange that’s how you know your getting good temps with the glass” Jay smokes dabs confirmed.

All about another water-cooled build. Would probably watch the uncut version tbh, Jay custom builds are always fun to watch.

I actually think you're probably the best techtuber at creating interesting content during a lul. I would be interested to watch a series on glass tube bending build.

"Hey, let's heat the bottle!" 💡 Idea: Do a build with bent glass tubing and use a bottle for the reservoir.

There's some good suggestions here already, so I'll just add that you should watch some videos on how neon signs are made. It's basically the exact craft you'd need to learn to do well with a glass tube cooling loop.

Diamond cut off wheel on a Dremel will save you tons of time, that's what I do. You can get a knock off Dremel for 20 bucks and the cut off wheel for a little less. All in all less than 40 bucks and no need for a torch or sanding, I round the edges with the cut off wheel.

My buddy had a kinkajou glass cutter. It had the similar walking issue you talked about at the beginning but, you would pour boiling after on the score and then cold water to fracture at that point. I bring that up because if you have a good score on a piece you want to remove like half an inch on, it should work. If you put an o-ring on each side, that will also focus the water to stay concentrated on the score. Just a thought, cool video

Dude, now I want to make my first custom loop glass, because I have no perception of my own limits and you re a bad influence.

We need a glass build

this is exactly THE TYPE OF CONTENT I want to see from you, this is JAYZTWOCENTS GODDAMMIT!!! THE GUY THAT DOES WATERCOOLING!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I used to work in a glass shop and I have a few tips for you. 1: Cooling the glass tempers it. This makes the glass tough but very dangerous under the right conditions. The slower the glass cools the easier it is to score and break it later. Cool it too fast and the glass will explode under tension. 2:Do not use rubber or synthetic fiber gloves when working with hot/melting glass. The heat alone can easily cause them to melt to your skin. I personally rarely used gloves at all. Glass suppliers sell gloves that would permit touching glass almost immediately after bending. 3: A wet tile cutter can have a diamond blade installed to cut glass. 4: Fire polishing after cutting needs to be done with a much hotter torch. No sanding is needed. If you have the time wet sanding works instead of using a torch. Be aware that if you sand water must be used or silica in the air can cause serious health problems. 5: Gravity is your friend. When the glass starts to bend simply let it slowly fall into the position it needs to be. Using a torch with a larger and broader flame could help.

There are inserts to put into the glass tubes that maintain the ID for a consistent pressure and flow. Using those inserts, a torch, a wet saw like used in glass tile work, and fine grit sand paper you can do really awesome stuff with glass. I would also say to get a tube holding jig that rides on a saw sled to insure that as the glass is feed into the saw it stays perfectly straight would be a huge help, but after enough practice you can also do it without that. Beyond that it is just experience more than anything else.

A glass build would be awesome from start to finish. Really would like to see the way you map out the path and bends using plastic first and then cut the glass to both water cool the CPU and the GPX card. I would assume you would have to essentially build it twice with the glass being the final product. I would totally do that for my next build in a couple of years (when the gpu stock is normalized...)

"I made a very phallic piece of glass." SHOW US!!!!!

Yes, do a glass tube build. I really want to see how it looks in the case with coolant running through it.

You can actually use a hard tube fitting to coupler to soft tube fitting to easily fit a blowtube with normal tubing. Can also use a fitting and cap to close off the other end of the tube. Air inside the glass tube is your mandrel, and is essential. A professional torch is also incredibly nice to have.

I would love to see you do a glass tubing build with your new found glass blowing skills. As for tools I dont really have anything to suggest other than take a look at graphite glass blowing tools to see if any of them would help you.

Make a build with glass tubing and bend the glass tubes to form the letters "J", "2" and "C"

Yes I would enjoy watching you make an all glass tube cooling solution.

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Head to home depot and get a wet tile saw to cut the glass. A cheap one will work just fine and make your life so much easier. It's worth it.

YESSSSSS JAY!!! Glass tubing build and please apply your creative genius to it. I miss your awesome crafting skills in pc builds. Ex: rdr2 build, destiny build, star wars build, etc

if you're going to be doing a lot of glass tube builds. In the stained glass world, there is a diamond ring saw to cut glass. The blade of the saw is a 360 degree cutting direction. This would be a good way to precisely trim your glass tubing and giving a more finished edge after the cut. Google "stained glass ring saw" Zephyr makes a good product.

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Glass build would be good, going through the considerations of fittings, diameters, fluids and dyes. Also, basic needs and nice to haves. There's enough differences to make it interesting.

Former sign guy here, put a cork in one end of the glass and rubber tube with blow piece on other end and as you bend glass keep constant pressure. OR find a neon sigh shop and have the neon tube bender bend your tubes for you. As somebody else said neon tubing comes in many colors and diameters (and is most likely cheaper) available from sign supply shop.

I've done a glass build with pre-bent pieces and used a diamond blade for my dremel to cut the glass and shorten the last mm to get it perfect length.

borosilicate is essentially Pyrex, and its resiliency against breaking and temps, compared to normal glass, is accomplished by allowing the molecules to anneal by cooling VERY slowly. this is a long way of saying, maybe don't use the air to cool it, if you want to retain greater strength against cracks and breaks. 😊

Looks like a pane in the glass 🥁

Hi, if your glass tube is a little to long, you can grind it with a diamond cutting wheel for the dremel, but be careful with the glass dust. You can deburr the tubes with the cutting wheel as well. Edit: I used the clamp tool from your earlier videos and it worked great, no spirals on the tubes. The clamp tool, the diamond cutting wheel for small length corrections and deburring and some polishing paste to make the ends even smoother were the tools I used for my build. I bought my 90° bends from a local glass manufacturer for around 6€ each.

Yes, Do an all glass build. That would be pretty cool. It's got to be over the top in all ways though, to match.

Cool. Some crack pipes to go with GPU prices.

For shorter snaps, try holding the short end with a tube that fits just around it! if it's a snug fit, it should work!

Try sliding a bit of PVC over the glass to "extend" the glass tube when scoring and breaking small sections off. You can even use a bit of tape to make the PVC friction fit to the glass.

To round the edges after scoring an snapping the glass tubing you can proceed to just heat it until the glass gets soft, then it will round the edges by itself without the need of sandpaper, etc.. Borosilicate glass has a really really low heattransfercoefficient, so you dont need to worry about the whole pipe heating up when your only applying heat to edges. In university we use a very powerful hydrogen/oxygen burner for preparing tubes and ampules and you can touch the glass even a few centimeters away from the spot you're applying heat to even, even without gloves you won't notice the extreme heat.

1:45 His name is Beaker and he's from the Muppets. And I still think Erlenmeyer would be a much more appropriate name for Dr. Bunsen's lab assistant.

You can use dremel with little cutting disc to cut this as well

I'd love to see some glass builds, I was actually contemplating doing copper tubing, but with pill shaped windows along it that I would fill with glass and glue them in.

for that kind of scoring tool, you can lay the chain out, set the tube where you want, then roll the chain over it, clamping (loosely), and just gently roll it all... easier than trying to wiggle it at all.

I don't think I'd ever do this but I definitely enjoyed watching someone else do it (even if it was with a drill taped to a table 🤣). Would love to see a glass build

I would love to see a new glass build. I know it will be amazing

Glass is awesome. I made my FIRST watercooling build with glass. I used PETG as templates, same as Jay, and used butloads of fittings and some prebent glass pieces. I messed up one prebent piece and had to swap it for straights with fittigns and didn't get the lenght perfectly right, so it's crooked, but everything is sealed just fine :P I've been using this build for past two years, and the best thing about glass is that it does not cloud, it does not introduce anything to your coolant, so my pastel white fluid is holding perfeclty fine (my res is glass, the only part non glass is either metal, orings or acrylic cover for GPU block).

You need to make a loop with Quartz Glass Tubes! Blistering temperatures won’t melt these quartz tubes, and rapid temperature shifts won’t cause them to crack. Even tougher than borosilicate, they can be used in furnaces and ovens heated up to 2000° F. These highly pure tubes are often used in laboratories because they won’t leach impurities into samples or contaminate chemical reactions. Quartz tubes are optically clear and have excellent UV transmission, making them ideal for UV purification systems.

yes plz do a glass build! Try to do weard shapes in the glass :)

I wouldnt mind seeing you do a glass build, but only if its going to stay together for something youd actually use

Please do a themed glass tubing build! Try using a Dremel cutting disk or diamond saw to cut shorter pieces. As long as you keep water on it and are patient you can literally carve granite with a dremel and some good diamond bits. I would be amazed if you couldn't shorten your glass tubes with one.

A miniature snap cutter. Neat. I use the same thing everyday to snap cast iron pipe for DWV systems at work.

Jay, quit tempting me, I'm going to ruin my future build with this xD

That ending deserved something more: "Hey, lets heat the bottle!" (if the bottle was full of alcohol) 🤣

Yes please do a full Glass build that would be awesome

When I make a short cut on glass, I put a wooden dowel in the short end to apply pressure from the center. Not a science or physics major by any means but I think the dowel evens out the pressure across the whole inside diameter of the tube. Hence making a cleaner break.

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You know a videos gonna be good when jay starts it off holding a mapp torch.

Yes I would love to see your work with glass!!!

"I am aware of how bad this is" camera zooms out to show Jay holding glass in a drill and a propped up torch with no safety wearing sandals with shorts.... yeah pretty bad lmao

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yes absolutely PLEASE do a glass build it will be awesome!!!!!!

This reminds me of when I took up a chemistry class in college. We were required to buy these thin glass tubes for our lab use. We'd hand them over to the lab technician, and it was mesmerizing to watch them cut, melt, and essentially turn those glass tubes into stirrers, droppers, and scoops of various lengths/sizes that we get to keep after the term. All this done on a Bunsen burner.

Jay I’ll be honest, I didn’t have a perfect first bend, but I also didn’t have a bad first bend. I didn’t have a first bend, because I’ve never done a custom water cooled pc because its too expensive.

They are called Beaker cups, because they have a "beak" for pouring liquid.

Nice one! I did not know that glass tube bending was in the cards for home users. Thanks Jay!

I'd make some mandrels out of hardwood to bend the glass around or at least as a guide while bending to get your angles correct. I also think you could cut off short pieces if you put the glass tube into a block of wood with just the right size hole drilled into it. If the short piece that needs to be broken off is near a bend, clamp the bend into a vice with blocks of wood and use another block with a hole drilled into it to break the short piece off. Alternatively, if you have the correct size drill bit to fit inside the glass tube pretty tightly you can use that on your short end that needs to be broken off. Disclaimer, not a professional glass worker, just a fan of cheap tools for once in a blue moon projects like this.

I love how he just excuses himself when he's wrong. "Well it sucks air from this side"

I died when Jay made his Vicegripgarage reference

This is pretty cool. The fittings work sorta like compression fittings for hydro lines

Yes please make one. That would look so awesome

- Put on your mask, cause all that fine glass dust isn't good for your breathers. - * Snap * - 1 sec later: removes mask, starts sanding and filing...

12:30 actually capping them off would cause the tube to expand under the heat. Heat causes air molecules to spread out. Therefore youll have some expansion in the tube if not super careful.

For sure a glass tube build would be amazing!

yes please do a glass build. That would be looking great

The orange is the sodium in the glass burning.

"I was able to make a very phallic looking piece of glass before this, so fight me."

As a glassblower you will need to anneal those tubes in a kiln or they could crack at the heat effect zone of those bends, great vid!

@JaysTwoCents for short cuts try heating the scored area, then applying ice. It should snap it thermally.

5:59 Jay: "The hotter it gets, the flame turns orange" Physics major students: "I'm gonna have to stop you right there"

You neeeeeed to do a glass build

I would try using a wet saw used for cutting tile . They use continuous rim diamond blades . Its more of a grinding action so it might cut and smooth the edge in one pass.

For trimming glass tubes use your dremel with diamond disc and for smoothing edges use your gas gun (torh) and apply heat on the edges until they start melting and you ready to go Good luck with next glass project

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love glass blowing, ive been doing it for two years so far and its the best!

Make tubing from uranium glass! that stuff glows in black light and occasionally in dark too!

The ultimate goal: building neon tubing for maximum RGB effect

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With a few tools you would be able to create different spirals, blown out bulbs, (I think that's what it's called) bends and what about colored glass or multicolor glass. That would be so much fun with all of the creative possibilities! I would love to see a build with glass even if it's just clear. BUT, creative would be so MUCH MORE fun.

Two points: 1) You could have explained a bit about different types of glass, specifically borosilicate is much more resistant against sudden temperature changes than "common" glass, if the tube was common glass, your heating and cooling methods would have resulted in it cracking into pieces; and 2) If you want to cut the glass instead of the slightly dangerous scoring and forcing method, the diamond blades for e.g. dremel-type small drills are not that expensive. This goes also for drill bits that you can use to smooth out the sharp corners of glass, or even bevel glass parts.

I don't think i've ever been this early. Nice!