Joining 2 36mm hoses

[UncleJoe]

I have a nice boom arm and I would like to join 2 36 mm Festool antistatic hoses but I can't seem to find the right combination of adapters to make this an easy fit.

I am confident I am not the first person that has tried this so I figured I would ask here. I tried the search but had no luck. I may be better off just buying a longer hose if necessary

 

[Tinker]

@ Uncle Joe, I am too young to learn anything.

You can get fittings for the ends of the hoses. I don't know the ID numbers.
If you can't find the ID numbers you can go to HD plumbing department. You can get rubber fittings in any combinations to fit.
I don't know right off hand the name of those fittings. Somebody will come up with the name.

If you find the numbers of the festool fittings, all you need is a screwdriver.
Tinker

 

[Tinker]

I just remembered the fittings you can ind @ HD.
Fernco
Tinker

 

[Rick Herrick]

I understood that the newer hoses would connect to each other.  Unless you have older hoses, see if they can connect.  On the larger end (goes into the DC), there is a smaller center piece that the d27 fits into and the d36 fits over.

 

[GarryMartin]

As mentioned, the newer hoses should connect to each other.

With the older hoses, you can use third-party parts to connect them together, or you can disassemble them and use Festool parts to connect together. If you want to go the latter route, take a look at the two attached documents for inspiration.

 

[DynaGlide]

Only the 27mm new hoses connect together. The 36mm would require couplings from Festool

 

[mino]

Per Garry and Cheese.

To connect two D36 hoses, you would need two parts:

- a new end for one of the D36, so it will have both ends the same like those that go into the vac
- the hoses connector (it accepts two vac-side ends)

That said, I would advise to reconsider. There is no big benefit to have D36 on a boom arm all the way. Sticking to D36 + D27/32 is more practical and needs no connectors. Works out of the box. Also the D27/32 is more practical for sanding - the most common task with a boom arm, at least for me.

I would keep the other D36 on hand, for direct-attach to the vac when you *really* need the air volume. There being shorter would also help.

A 7m hose run, even D36-D36 will have some air volume loss and it will not be much better to a D36 + D27/32 setup. While for high-air-volume tasks the D36 standalone is hard to beat.

 

[DynaGlide]

I took my old ribbed 36mm, cut it in half and bought the connectors to join it to the new smooth 36mm as well as to my Kapex. Now half of it is dedicated to the Kapex, the other half is permanently joined to a new style 36mm hose at my bench. Then as [member=61254]mino[/member] suggested, I have a separate 36mm hose that I can grab for cleaning up or hooking up to my jobsite table saw.

 

[ChuckS]

Snip.
you can go to HD plumbing department. You can get rubber fittings in any combinations to fit.
Snip.
Tinker

This -- using plumbing supplies, hose adapters and tubes of various sorts --  has always been my approach in connecting hoses to something instead of bothering to find the OEM products, which will always be much more expensive even if they're available. It doesn't take much to play around and find whatever is needed to connect a hose to a machine or a hose to another hose (of the same or different size) or a hose to a port with or without a pair of hose clamps.

 

[mino]

This -- using plumbing supplies, hose adapters and tubes of various sorts --  has always been my approach in connecting hoses to something instead of bothering to find the OEM products, which will always be much more expensive even if they're available. It doesn't take much to play around and find whatever is needed to connect a hose to a machine or a hose to another hose (of the same or different size) or a hose to a port with or without a pair of hose clamps.

Seconded in general, caveats ref Festool setup:

The moment you do that, you lose the Anti-Static aspect you paid 100's $ for in those Festool hoses ... at that point, it makes more sense to go with cheaper Makita hoses or even waste water piping and just use the Festool end connectors as applicable.

IMO the only reason to stick to All-Festool-Hoses - in a boom arm setup - is if you want to get the AS aspect and you have no easy way to ground the "last section" of the hose that should be Festool AS braided for egronomics.

IF you do not care of AS (IMO it is worth it but YMMV), or can ground the last hose section, it is practical to have a fixed "hose interface" attached to the boom arm (say  made from the Festol AS connector) at a point where plugging the standard 3.5m 27/32 hose "Just WorksTM". Rest of the hosing/piping can be pretty much whatever one can think of. Waste water piping being as good - actually better as is smooth - than whatever $10/feet hose.

My 2 cents.

 

[ChuckS]

Snip.
Seconded in general, caveats ref Festool setup:

The moment you do that, you lose the Anti-Static aspect you paid 100's $ for in those Festool hoses ... at that point, it makes more sense to go with cheaper Makita hoses or even waste water piping and just use the Festool end connectors as applicable.Snip.

Good point. All my hoses are non-anti static (CT15 & non-Festool etc.)