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Good video....I've had this kit for years but could never get them to come out right and now I know the reason.....needless to say,I was over-crimping the first crimp....just did a splice on an air hose and finally,it came out right!...thanks for showing the right technique 👍
Awesome! I saw these online, but wasnt sure how effective it would be compared to the more expensive tool. I don't do enough to warrant the pricey machine, thanks for making this video.
extremely helpful, just made my first. However the fit was so tight i gave myself a blister pushing so hard. But it worked and now i have a great compressor hose.
Hey Man, thanks for an awesome educational video. Do you think that kit and connections would be okay for a 2600psi water hose for a pressure washer? The hose max psi is 3100 but my machine max is 2600psi. Thanks from 🇦🇺
Yes!!!! I have been tightening my hose clamp and listening to hissing air lines. Love how you had your other videos conveniently linked throughout your video. Enjoyable to watch. Just a real dude doing real work.
Looks great. Anybody an idea on where to find this tool? Struggle to get a link. A shop in Europe would be appreciated. Would like to use it to crimp new fuel lines on the injectors for my oldtimer project. Support appreciated!
Excellent complement to the workshop. For what it's worth, the best "air" accessory I've ever put on my workshop, is a hose reel. Strategically placed where the hose as access to the full area of the workshop. It's a cheap Chinese made unit that as been on service for a few years now. Best investment ever for "air" stuff. Hose is always ready and never on the way. Got rid of all those hose rolls spread all over the place, never tripped on a hose again. ;-)
You never put oil on the barb or whatever you shove into a hose. Use soap or better, tire soap/lubricant. Oil wil make the end piece of the hose harden out en start leaking.
I bought an old Aeroquip setup at a liquidation auction for around 2200 with some dies and fittings, I've made that back tenfold in the first year. But hydraulic hose is expensive as hell, I don't offer too many options, just the high end of the working pressure and -8 hose is 2000 bucks for 200 feet I believe, I haven't reupped in a while and fittings ain't exactly cheap either so figure 10 bucks a foot for a 1/2 id hose and around 15 a piece or more depending on the fitting style. I don't beat people up but I get calls to make hoses at 2am sometimes during snowstorms so people usually don't mind paying a bit extra.
My first reaction was to be all over this idea, it gives a professional look. Then I measured the outside diameter of my hoses, they differ a little because some hoses are silicone and others are old style. On reading some reviews on Amazon, readers note that you need to buy the ferrule to be a fairly exacting fit. So I'd be looking at buying an inventory of ferrules. I stumbled across an older style method of permanent clamping with stainless steel wire, and a device known as the Clamptite tool popped up. The nice thing about that is the way it is versatile, you don't need to buy ferrules, and it works on a multitude of other situations like garden hoses, etc. Or one could use the same kind of crimp clamps used for outdoor sprinkler installation and repair, which I already have.
Nice but u dont have the swivel connections that most hoses have. Guess u can buy em never looked into it. I looked up price on bulk hose and price of fittings, unless u need a custom length that isnt doable in 25' 50' 75' or 100' I dont see an advantage of making ur own. The price of the bulk hose alone for 250' i could buy that much in 50' and 100' combined to 250' for cheaper with the fitting already on it minus the coupling, and to be honest i think the cost of the couplings with the hoses I would still be under the price of the cost of the hose alone. Not knocking ur video by any means, I appreciate u taking the time to do it. I am simply saying cost wise i dont think is worth it for most people unless in specific circumstances.
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for sharing this. Previously I always used a hose clamp and hate it. This is so much better. I'll be buying the crimper and ferrules for sure.
Did you fully crimp all other crimps? Only the first one not fully, wasn't clearly explained? Other than that, great video, loved all the camera angles like from the shop crane, 4-way split, etc. I also loved how you linked all the other videos as you were going along, see shop tables here's the link! Great idea, never seen it done that way. Thank you!!!
Any good connectors that can be crimped for the garden hose? Seems like if the hose itself is good the damn connectors break-off or corrode out these days.
For garden hoses you might be able to get away with those stainless steel single side crimp pex/poly pipe crimp rings Of a size that slides over the hose but still allows it to crimp down. If they do work I would recommend doing two per end with the pinches offset of each other.
I've been reading about crimp failure on hoses and one reason is that the crimp should be BEHIND a barb not perpendicular to the hose like the crimp tool you have.
The crimper you have in the description is not the same one you're using. When you're using is almost hexagonal and the one on the link is just smooth.
Has anyone used this setup to make new fitting for propane? I hate having to buy new pigtails for my trailer. It seems I have to get a new one every 6 months to a year. Chineseum crap.
I’m not 100% sure but I believe that the outside diameter of 3/16 oxy/acetylene hose is close to the same OD as most 1/4 inch air hoses and these crimpers should work with the 3/16 crimp sleeves on the smaller size of the crimping tool. You might have to crimp more times than in this video.
There's an alternative to this. Not many people know about these, but they are the two-piece reusable screw-on air hose ends. They are all-brass do-dads I get from MSC. No tools, crimping, tape, ties, or pipe clamps are required, just a vise and few standard wrenches. There is an internally threaded sleeve that screws over the OD of the hose, then you screw a stem into that, which penetrates into the ID of the hose, and sandwiches the hose between it and the sleeve. There is a RU-vid video on these. Search for "brass reusable fittings" by Dixon Valve.
I had one of these crimpers. A while ago I threw it into the scrap metal bin where it belongs. The crimps are ugly. If you have enough to do, I recommend investing in one of the hand-operated lever crimpers with interchangeable dies. $1000+ investment, but worth it for the professional crimps, especially if you are a perfectionist or suffer from OCD.
Almost no-one watching this video is crimping hoses professionally - if they are they already own a professional / industrial tool. This is clearly for the rest of us.
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At 1:46 you suggest that you use a little bit of oil to ease the installation of the hose barb. When making up or repairing Oxygen hose this is a no no. Oil and pure Oxygen can catch fire and burn inside your hose until it burns the hose out. If you look at your Oxygen gauge it says the same thing. USE NO OIL.
O also stop buying the crappy horrible freight air fittings. You will not need to keep a giant box of fitting like that if you just buy good quality fittings to begin with. You may think those work fine and sure they work for awhile but once you use good quality usa made fittings you will throw all of your currentl ones in the trash.
It was more aimed at making custom hoses of varying lengths and types more so than addressing leaks. I do agree with your general assessment of quality though.
Well, I'm using 1/4 ID Flexzilla air hose. The naked OD is 0.460 and the hose ID with the barb inserted is 0.482. I'm also using the 0.500 ID ferrules as recommended by the Interstate Pneumatics on-line catalog (next size up from 0.482). I'm using brass barbed fittings I purchased from McMaster-Carr. After slipping the ferrule onto the hose and inserting the barb, these crimper pliers are not compressing the ferrule, much less even making a mark on the ferrule. Either I'm doing something wrong, or the vise grip crimper is useless. Really trying to avoid using hose clamps, but time is getting short and I may have no choice.
You also might be interested in the threaded connections for gas hoses from Cigweld/Esab www.cigweld.com.au/product/hose-connection-kit-5mm-screw-type-5-8-18-unf-rh/ Totally reusable and only needs two spanners or crescent wrenches to attach and remove, although you might want a 5/8" UNF bolt for assembling the hose-ends on (rather than putting stresses on the gas fitting of your machine or gas regulator outlet). The UK version uses 1/4" BSP Right Hand Thread (which is also 5/8" external thread, but I don't know what threadform. Possibly "British Standard Fine" [BSF]) which appears very similar, but is *not* interchangeable.
I hate to tell ya, but brass doesn't need that damned Teflon tape everybody is in love with using. Brass will seal itself, it was designed that way And a single wrap of tef works just fine when your stuck with steel against steel. Why people gob that sh-t on is a mystery to me? Too much, and it leaves chunks inside the hose that clog up the tools.
Hey, trying to fix a propane hose (would pics help) and it brought me to your video. It's a propane hose that connects to the (tanks 100#) and to the Tee to the portable generator. No one in town will touch it... Idk why??? And I don't wanna spend another 55$ for a 25' hose. (When there's a 6 inch section that got melted by exhaust) will this work safely? For what I need?? Thanks
Thanks for making this video. This should be shop 101. Ps we could be friends if you want. I'm very friendly (that came off kind of creepy). Let me try again. Soooo how are sports these days. Crazy right... well off to drink beer. See you around youtube later.
Hola mi buen amigo mi nombre es Nasser Reyes Castillo soy de Costa Rica CA quiero felicitarlo por tu vídeo está muy bueno ya que había visto varios sobre selladores de acoples de mangueras y lo más ideal es la herramienta que usted utilizo, tengo una pregunta dónde la compro para yo poder obtener una como esa, ya que estoy en un proyecto personal, gracias y saludos y como decimos por aquí PURA VIDA........
I watched & subscribed to a different video that really helped answer some questions I was having about painting a trailer. I was rewatching & decided to look at some of you’re other videos & found this video. I really appreciate this video. Keep up the good videos. I like your direct explanations. Thanks again!
There's even an easier, cheaper, and more versatile way... Have a gander (Internet search) for the Clamptite wire clamping tool. Although pricey, one can fabricate their own version out of a split-body turn buckle which I did. I've used the wire clamping tool to fabricate dozens of air, garden, and fuel line hoses. Once the tool is built/acquired, the only supply cost is for a can of stainless steel safety wire...
Of course not. There is very little reason to crimp a hose. I haven't needed to splice one for... perhaps... twenty years, and then I just used a hose clamp because there was no need for anything else..
Going to start. Thanks. Another tool I have to have. Lol. Really thanks only reason didn’t have my building Plumed for air is price of kits. Ouch hurt the pocket.
Good video. For decades I paid people to do things I have since learned to do myself. I had a transformer fry in my welder. Lincoln said no probs man. Then quoted a price I S Y not was ten bucks less than a new one. And the new one comes with all the toys. $168.85 later and boom. The $168.85? The cost of the wire to rewire the secondaries of the transformer.
Looking for a 1/4" hose splicer, so it would have a barbed insert on both ends and ferrules over to repair a punctured hose. Also the ferrules seem to be a ridiculous price. The 11 or 12 bucks to purchase and 44 to ship??? any other solutions. I had a set of vicegrips like those 40 yrs ago but they disappeared from the shop I had at that time.
I've been thinking about this for a while... wondering if you could do the crimping with a hose clamp... put a couple of dowels around the ferrule, then put the hose clamp around those, and tighten...
