Monsoon fittings are pretty much impossible to find locally unless you can get the guys at APES to help you order. Locally available are EK, Bitspower and Primochill, none of which are really "cheap". lol

XSPC uses UNC 6-32.

Elans Joshpit, hit up niclasteoh on the forums. I think he's got the screws you need.

HWLabs are to die for. Living with alphacools now. Maybe my next upgrade. LOL

That's a nice rig. Mirror polished mobo block and DomPlat light bars. damn.

If it's just cabling that's broken off, you can just get a electrical cabling terminal connector, strip the insulation and join the cables back. it'll work fine.

Nickel blocks from EK USED to have an issue. Now not so much. Then again, too much biocide or silver in any loop will just wreck havoc.

If you're going with biocide, follow instructions and top up every few months. If you're going with silver, follow the recommended amount for your loop and check the strip every few months and see if you need to polish. If you don't want to bother, use coolant.

Like Lucassss said, fitting barbs are made of brass, then plated with nickel or painted. However, the plated does come in contact with the water in the loop. Some fittings are anodized aluminium, but that's the compression ring, so it's okay.

Monsoons are pretty much impossible to find locally. lol. I haven't heard of anyone reselling them locally. I've stopped bringing in stuff from PPC for quite awhile already. Heck, haven't bought much stuff to upgrade my loop or rig at all even.

USED to, they fixed the issue already.

The EK ACF fittings are new. They're fine to use. Whether or not safe to use depends on you. But if you're talking about reaction with water, it's fine.

Credits to your excellent cleaning

Cleaned mine pretty thoroughly before filling up as well. No discolouration in my coolant or tubes too.

All my bitspower fittings are on monsoon orings. First thing I did was take out all the bitspower orings. Haha!

I believe and feel that monsoon have one of the best orings in the market.

Yeah, got my Monsoon O-rings while I was still sorting out bulk buys for you guys. But if you can find similar grade (material wise) o-rings locally, they'll be just as good. Just don't get the size wrong or you'll have leaks all over the place.

Like Azilazwa said, there's no problem with any brand or size fittings. You can probably use China fittings and they'd be fine. You just have to check that they're not chipped both on the barb and the screw thread, make sure the o-rings are compressible and that you tighten enough. If you want, you can go a step further and make sure when you fix the tube to the barb, the tube is cut clean and sits flush to the fitting.

There's actually quite a bit to fitting design, and there are some that can and are better than others. And some are great, but a bloody pain when you want to take the tubes out.

You don't "need" to buy spare o-rings. Most of the coolers here have gone through multiple setups and multiple fittings without ever needing to change an o-ring at the the beginning of their build.

If you're buying from overseas, O-rings won't add anything to your postage, unless you buy like a kilo.

They're as good as box stuffing if you're buying with other stuff.