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Post# 24404   11/13/2007 at 17:50 (5,980 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)   |   | |
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I thought the cloth hose for the little Premier Vac-Kit was unusualy stiff with age...and yet it wasn't leaking. I noticed that when I inserted the hose in either side of the vacuum the motor would speed up and there wasn't much airflow. Thinking there was a clog restriction clearable with a stick I hit something solid right away. On closer inspection I could make out a smaller diameter rubber hose. Cut to a perfect length it is a snug fit inside both end fittings and solved the leak problem, alright. :-) Managed to get a pair of hooks into it and pulled it out. The woven hose is now snakily flexible and surprisingly, doesn't leak all that much. I guess the stiff liner kept it from breaking up from the outside and protected the inner layers from exposure to enviromental factors for who knows how many years. The home handyman that came up with this has a great idea and I recall it's been mentioned here, too. Neccesity is the Mother of Invention and I guess the radiator hose was handy. The problem is the 11/16" inside diameter and 1/8" thick wall. Glad I was able to fish it out as this length is a nice odd size for certain player piano supply lines to distant components - like the sustain pneumatic - when I don't have the proper hose stock handy. The Premier Vac-Kit is the next hose to get the latex treatment. Wouldn't it be nice to find a ribbed plastic hose closer to 1.24" diameter that just snugly fits inside our lovely old hoses? I'll be looking... |
Post# 24409 , Reply# 1   11/13/2007 at 19:12 (5,980 days old) by z30soulbrother (West Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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hi folks while we are on the subject of hoses,could someone tell me the difference between cloth woven and saran, i always took it that saran was the shiny finish 1 am i right? si |
Post# 24445 , Reply# 2   11/14/2007 at 09:16 (5,979 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)   |   | |
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Ok, I'll jump in, Simon. Over here in North America we call it vinyl, what you call saran. Yes, its a shiny braid weave over the hose core usually in contrasting colors to create a pleasing pattern of solid or dashed helical stripes, or in the case of Electrolux, chevron arrowheads. I don't know when the first vinyl braided hose appeared. One would think that vinyl/saran is a much tougher material than cotton for the purpose and yet I find that the later poorer quality vinyl weave strips have a tendency to stretch from flexing and form little loops along the surface. These loops then get snagged on the carpet and furniture and eventually break. Perhaps it was the weaving machinery that was not kept in tight adjustment. The earlier cloth weave hoses that have been around since the dawn of vacuums are similarly woven with 4-5 parallel cotton threads, to the same pleasing effect. The threads do not stretch and the hose surface remains smooth unless there is some accident that cuts a thread or two - nonetheless, the inherent friction of cotton on cotten prevnts the cut from turning into a run and all you end up with is a non-snagging blemish on the hose. My 17 cents worth. Dave |