Fitting fire hose to barbs

[Ron Overs]

Will,
Greetings from down under. Heating the end will 
help as mentioned, but another major help is to 
use rubber grease, which is a grease made from 
vegetable oils. If you can't get this product, 
cooking oil will also work just fine.

Ron O.

>Will do.  Thanks,  Joe.
>
>Will
>
>From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 
>[mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of 
>Joe And Penny Goss
>Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 8:43 PM
>To: Pianotech List
>Subject: Re: Fitting fire hose to barbs
>
>hi Will,
>Never done this but would reccomend the hose end 
>be in boiling water for enough time to soften 
>the end. NOT JUST HOT WATER. I have worked with 
>other items that are similar to this.
>Joe Goss RPT
>Mother Goose Tools
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:surfdog at metrocast.net>Will Truitt
>To: <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>'Pianotech List'
>Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:11 PM
>Subject: Fitting fire hose to barbs
>
>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 it's 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
>
>


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