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Oh the irony of Half Life behind your valve. Don't know if that was intentional or not!
Next thing is why use plastic tubing/fittings at all? You have a proper ball valve. Just get flare fittings and break out a flaring tool. If you've never done this practice up on scraps first. I guarantee you will never have a leak again!
I had never heard of them prior to this post! I just Googled them, looks like they take up too much space. Most of my fittings are pretty tight: See this pic here:
Of course having 100% solid fittings and a suitable vessel is not going to prepare for degradation of onboard components such as the rubber of the caps. The board may need to be conformally coated - a similar prep that hardcore oc junkies apply before mounting LN2 pots and such.
I think I'm going to replace them caps if needed. I'm a EE so I have access to a LCR meter at school. I'm going to measure the capacitance of a bunch of my caps so I can purchase new ones because I have no idea what the hell the codes on the top of the caps mean. This is assuming they have the rubber base at all. The rubber base does not seem to be a definite; my old mobo had them, but the sound card, graphics cards and the PSU did not. I'm going to desolder 1 or 2 first and take a look before I place the order.
Thanks for reading!