Hose Joiner

[Dex]

I'm refinishing window frames using a Fein Multimaster plugged into a CTL 26. The 27mm hose fits the tool well but lacks the length to reach up to the top of a scaffolding tower. I have a 36mm hose which is 5 metres long. Seems obvious to plug the 36mm into the extractor, feed the hose up the tower and join the 27mm hose and into the tool. Except the hoses don't fit together like that and Festool don't make a joiner.
I found a cheap solution - a 40mm waste pipe joiner, and a scout around the shed and toy box to find a piece of lightly tapered plastic tube of the right sort of dimension. A little poly pipe weld glue to join them together and that's it. Nice interference fit both sides and non-destructive to both hoses. Plenty of 'slack' in the hose now so I don't have to hoist the extractor up a scaffolding tower.
I'm sure that simple gizmo will come in handy more than once.

Dex

 

[CrazyLarry]

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[WarnerConstCo.]

I bought another end that fits into the vac, put it on the other end of the 36mm hose and coupled the two hoses together.

 

[CrazyLarry]

I bought another end that fits into the vac, put it on the other end of the 36mm hose and coupled the two hoses together.

Yup that's the other option I tried that too, has one advantage no constriction (even at 9.5m barely noticeable) and one disadvantage you have to dismantle and reassemble to use the 36mm hose with a tool, depends on which is the most common need for you I guess.

 

[mike_aa]

[member=58415]Dex[/member]
Nice creative DIY solution, and...

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Mike A.