Creative Uses of Old Air Hose??

   / Creative Uses of Old Air Hose?? #11  
Use it to protect electrical wiring as a sleeve.

For rattles on sheet metal hoods, cut a short piece. Then slit one side. Slip the open side over the metal and rivet in place. I may have to post a picture later if this doesn't make sense.

Make a leader hose. Most of the flexing where leaks start is at the tool end of the hose. So use the hose to make a short leader hose. When it gets a leak, put on another one. You'll already have enough hose if it hasn't rotted by then.

Make two hoses instead of splicing it all together again.
 
   / Creative Uses of Old Air Hose?? #12  
"Redbug, How much did that splice kit cost and where did you get it?"

I get the barbs from Harbor Freight, and a bag of the small hose clamps from the plumbing section at Lowe's.

After thinking about it, Skyco does make sense about the cheap price of hose and just buying a new one on sale. And a spliced hose does catch on stuff when you are dragging it across the shop floor. But, I cannot bring myself to throw away a 15 foot piece of good air hose. It's a holdover from the days when I had to skimp on things.
 
   / Creative Uses of Old Air Hose?? #13  
Make lead hoses with flex swivels for your air tools. Keeps the bulky connector off the tool.
larry
 
   / Creative Uses of Old Air Hose?? #14  
But, I cannot bring myself to throw away a 15 foot piece of good air hose.

Me neither. If you ever saw my garage you'd see that I rarely throw out anything, just ask my wife:D There must be a name for the phenomenon where I can hold onto some seemingly useless piece of junk for years then when in a rare fit of rationality I finally throw it out an application for just that item magically pops up within 24 hours:cool:
 
   / Creative Uses of Old Air Hose?? #15  
Skyco said:
There must be a name for the phenomenon where I can hold onto some seemingly useless piece of junk for years then when in a rare fit of rationality I finally throw it out an application for just that item magically pops up within 24 hours:cool:

One of the corollaries to Murphy's Law must fit that somewhere. Same thing for me when trying to find a specialty tool to do a particular job a bit faster- it always seems to take me a bit less time to do the job without the tool than it does to find the tool and do the job.:mad:
 
   / Creative Uses of Old Air Hose??
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#17  
2manyrocks said:
Use it to protect electrical wiring as a sleeve.

For rattles on sheet metal hoods, cut a short piece. Then slit one side. Slip the open side over the metal and rivet in place. I may have to post a picture later if this doesn't make sense.

I know exactly what you're talking about. I can picture it.

It's beginning to look like my hose is worth more with the holes in it than it was before it got the holes.
 
   / Creative Uses of Old Air Hose?? #18  
I think it's calle d'hoarding'.

I hear it applies to tractors as well ;)

Soundguy

Skyco said:
Me neither. If you ever saw my garage you'd see that I rarely throw out anything, just ask my wife:D There must be a name for the phenomenon where I can hold onto some seemingly useless piece of junk for years then when in a rare fit of rationality I finally throw it out an application for just that item magically pops up within 24 hours:cool:
 
   / Creative Uses of Old Air Hose?? #19  
wad it up, tie 2 knots in it, put it on the floor directly infront of your work bench. Trip, fall, cuss. Now throw the dang thing in the trash where it belongs!!!!!
 
   / Creative Uses of Old Air Hose?? #20  
Can make good disposable syphon line as well..

soundguy
 

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