To the List: I got my Nitrile rubber 1 ½ fire hose late this afternoon, and at the end of the day I cut my lengths and started playing with fitting the hose over the barbs of my end pieces. The inner diameter is slightly smaller than the end of the barb. Even with grease and wanging the barb around the inside of the end of the hose to stretch it a bit, it looks like its going to be a lot of work to get those suckers on a lot of screaming, cursing, and gnashing of teeth. I was hoping to secure a tool designed for this task at a hardware store, but there appears to be no such animal. The suggestion of placing the hose end in very hot water was made to me, and I will try that tomorrow. Does anyone who has experience doing this have any suggestions that I could use to make my life easier here? Will Truitt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20081003/04797398/attachment.html
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