Crimping Hydraulic Hoses with a different brand crimper

[oldnslo]

so I have seen all of this over the years. I was very confused about it as well. Now I know the safefy shitheads and the ones selling specific hoses will tell you I am going to get you killed but the next sentence is fact. I have a crimper and it is not one the static ones but I can crimp until I don't want to crimp anymore. The key is to find a drill bit that slips in the ID of the fitting where the fluid goes through and when you get it pretty close using sight just go slow. I have a manual pump on mine and I pump one full pump then see if my drill bit will still go in ID of fitting as soon as it doesn't then you are done. Easy as that not rocket science and I have never had failure and I use whatever fitting is available and as long as it is 1/4 3/8 1/2 hose and crimp on it doesn't make a happy **** the brand on it. Just my 2 cents now let the nay sayers begin IDC!

It depends on the fitting style and hose style on whether they can be interchanged. Some fittings require the hose to be “skived” which is removing the outer rubber cover down to the wire braid. Other fittings are crimp through the cover. Having had ends blow off and hose whip past my head I would be very hesitant to just randomly mix and match hose end brands and hose especially on larger higher pressure hoses.

 

[ratflinger]

Thread is 6 years old guys, I bet the OP has obtained hoses some way or another.

 

[sd455dan]

Thread is 6 years old guys, I bet the OP has obtained hoses some way or another.

I Knew those prices per foot looked Unbelievably Low, now I Know why...

 

[agjones]

I'm in the process of refurbishing a boom lift, part of which will require over 30 hydraulic hose replacements. All the hoses are the same size and style, with the only difference being at the fitting, and still with little variety. I'm looking at hydraulic a hose crimper to make the assemblies myself, but there is not a lot of information about crimping one brand's hose and fittings with a different brand's crimper. In particular, I'm looking to use Parker hose and Parker series 43 fittings. I have a lead on a Weatherhead T-400 crimper. Can Parker fittings be crimped with that Weatherhead crimper? I'd obviously be checking final crimp diameter with a micrometer to make sure they are in spec, but I'm not sure if the crimp "style" of the Weatherhead is different from, say, a Parker crimper.

Yeah man, same crimper here.

Weatherhead -->Parker yes, gates no.

That pump on the crimper can be pretty easily upgraded to hydraulic by air. Save a lot of pumps on the manual one.

Nice clean even cuts to the end of the hose, hit the end w shop vac to recover and cutting debris