Copper tubes ...

[voigts]

Thanks for the info. I was thinking of going all hard lines in my next build, but was worried about my lack of bending tools. A softer copper line would solve everything! You just made my day!

How much care does it take to bend the "flexible/soft copper" tubing? Do you just slowly work it around an object of the desired radius, or do you have to insert a filler to keep it from collapsing? On second thought, it's probably best to fill it in any case, just to maintain the largest cross-sectional area possible. I just answered my own question!

Trying to bend around something just doesn't work well. I use a pipe bender that I picked up from Harbor Freight. I never filled mine when bending. What would you fill it with? Sand maybe?

I really like being able to bend instead of having to use fittings for everything as this way I don't have the industrial look due to the curves. Nothing wrong at all with the way sbinh has done it, I just wanted a non-linear look. Using copper is nice in that there is no stress on the barbs unlike with tight bends with regular tubing. And you can route the tubing exactly where you want it to go. The main reason I went with copper was that with tubing, my case just looked too sloppy due to tubing drooping, whereas the copper gives much cleaner lines.