Creative Uses of Old Air Hose??

[2manyrocks]

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.

 

[Redbug]

"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.

 

[SPYDERLK]

Make lead hoses with flex swivels for your air tools. Keeps the bulky connector off the tool.
larry

 

[Skyco]

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 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

 

[GinNB]

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

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.

 

[Aquaman]

Ditto

 

[Iplayfarmer]

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.

 

[Soundguy]

I think it's calle d'hoarding'.

I hear it applies to tractors as well

Soundguy

Me neither. If you ever saw my garage you'd see that I rarely throw out anything, just ask my wife 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

 

[firemanpat2910]

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!!!!!

 

[Soundguy]

Can make good disposable syphon line as well..

soundguy