Polyurethane Air Hose Help!

[Pete Pedisich]

Hi,

Anyone know if it's ok to mend/splice a polyurethane air hose with regular barbed connectors and stainless hose clamps?

Thanks,

Pete

 

[harry_]

as in the poly 'coily' hose? yes, but YMMV and it might take 5 tries.

As for the braided poly hoses, yes, with significantly better results.

 

[Pete Pedisich]

Harry, thanks for the reply. It looks like this:

 

[harry_]

Absolutely! All day long. you will find that with some of them, when you break down the fitting, it can be re-used without necessity of a hose clamp as the backup nut acts as the clamp.

 

[Pete Pedisich]

Great news, thanks for the info harry_

 

[JSlovic]

A hint on installing the fitting warm up the hose w/ a hot air gun/hair drier or boiling water before you install the fitting.  I've found it makes the poly more elastic.