Originally Posted by
Nickel020
Those are plug-in fittings, but yes, the block was designed with these in mind. Be happy they didn't use G1/8 threads (they're slowly going away from that, thank God...).
@dejanh
Something in your calcualtions must be wrong, since blocks with silver baseplates have always been in that price region... And getting the baseplate nickel-plated shouldn't be much of a problem, if you really need that for whatever reason...
The fact that they didn't design this with compression fittings in mind annoys me though, 1/2" OD with compression fittings is in fact very common here in Germany, not making sure those fit is just pure stupidity. And they obviously haven't learned anything from the Supreme HF's design or the baseplate thicker and the channels would have been deeper.