...or the old ones, depending on which ones you value the most.
I have ended up with a few of the new style Cleantec hose ends - as stated many times, they are a flawed concept, requiring unnecessary exertion to fit onto the tool and then they spew dust when disconnected, because the dust gets trapped in the unnecessarily intricate recesses in the hose end and the tool spigot. The old style hose ends are substantially preferable, even for tools that have the new style spigot.
I have upgraded one of my D27 hoses to the new slinky version and this is good - better (more flexible and slicker) than my efforts at using hosewrap, except for the dreaded new style hose end. I have described in a different thread how to swap the hose end for an old style one.http://festoolownersgroup.com/festo...good-but-can-be-improved/msg540957/#msg540957
So it is apparent that there are three types of D27 hose end as per this picture:
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Left to right: old style/new style for ordinary hose/new style for slinky hose. The slinky hose version is slightly bigger due to having to accommodate the hosewrap. [btw the new style for ordinary hose seems to have two different part numbers as the packaging shows.]
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As described in the other thread referred to above, the old style end will fit on the slinky hose, but it is best to ease the inside of the locking collar so that it rotates freely.
I have often thought there should be a neat way to join two hoses - the solution I have seen before is shown here, but that leaves a clunky big lump in the middle (and involves buying two new parts); and so I thought I would experiment with my two old D27 hoses and the surplus Cleantec connectors. I had at least two spares of the new style connectors (for ordinary hose). As the following pictures show, I just cut the rubbery hose connector off, cleaned up the two faces on the disc sander, superglued the two parts together and that then gives a neat swivelling connector. It is easily swapped back for a normal connector on one or both hoses as required.
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Note that if you want to do this with two slinky hoses, you will need to use new style hose ends or enlarge the collars of old ones as the donors.
Hope that is of interest to someone and will avoid all those new style hose ends going to landfill!!
Cheers
I have ended up with a few of the new style Cleantec hose ends - as stated many times, they are a flawed concept, requiring unnecessary exertion to fit onto the tool and then they spew dust when disconnected, because the dust gets trapped in the unnecessarily intricate recesses in the hose end and the tool spigot. The old style hose ends are substantially preferable, even for tools that have the new style spigot.
I have upgraded one of my D27 hoses to the new slinky version and this is good - better (more flexible and slicker) than my efforts at using hosewrap, except for the dreaded new style hose end. I have described in a different thread how to swap the hose end for an old style one.http://festoolownersgroup.com/festo...good-but-can-be-improved/msg540957/#msg540957
So it is apparent that there are three types of D27 hose end as per this picture:
[attachimg=1]
Left to right: old style/new style for ordinary hose/new style for slinky hose. The slinky hose version is slightly bigger due to having to accommodate the hosewrap. [btw the new style for ordinary hose seems to have two different part numbers as the packaging shows.]
[attachimg=2]
As described in the other thread referred to above, the old style end will fit on the slinky hose, but it is best to ease the inside of the locking collar so that it rotates freely.
I have often thought there should be a neat way to join two hoses - the solution I have seen before is shown here, but that leaves a clunky big lump in the middle (and involves buying two new parts); and so I thought I would experiment with my two old D27 hoses and the surplus Cleantec connectors. I had at least two spares of the new style connectors (for ordinary hose). As the following pictures show, I just cut the rubbery hose connector off, cleaned up the two faces on the disc sander, superglued the two parts together and that then gives a neat swivelling connector. It is easily swapped back for a normal connector on one or both hoses as required.
[attachimg=3]
[attachimg=4]
[attachimg=5]
[attachimg=6]
Note that if you want to do this with two slinky hoses, you will need to use new style hose ends or enlarge the collars of old ones as the donors.
Hope that is of interest to someone and will avoid all those new style hose ends going to landfill!!
Cheers
