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Thread Number: 35532
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Proper way to store hoses? |
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| Post# 381860 , Reply# 1 11/27/2017 at 17:20 (2,334 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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| Post# 381867 , Reply# 3 11/27/2017 at 20:27 (2,334 days old) by lux14 (Leawood Kansas) | ||
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Thanks Huskyvac and Vac-O-Matic! Both great ideas! | ||
| Post# 381868 , Reply# 4 11/27/2017 at 20:36 (2,334 days old) by pr-21 (Middletown, OH) | ||
Hanging Hoses This is how I do mine.
You can get them at hardware stores. They are metal with a rubber coating. Good for hoses and vacuum tools.
PR-21 Bud
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| Post# 381869 , Reply# 5 11/27/2017 at 21:56 (2,334 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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| Post# 381873 , Reply# 6 11/27/2017 at 23:17 (2,334 days old) by Real1shep (Walla Walla, WA) | ||
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If you have the room like a long shelf, the very best way to store a hose is just straight its whole length.
Kevin
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| Post# 381885 , Reply# 7 11/28/2017 at 09:31 (2,333 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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I coil them up Loosely inside of large totes and keep them in the basement where its cool and dark, no really good way when you have hundreds of them..LOL | ||
| Post# 381895 , Reply# 8 11/28/2017 at 13:17 (2,333 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado) | ||
Mine hang over the 2 LARGE PVC pipes that are the furnace vents its one of those "sealed combustion" units that sucks so much o the heat out that its too cold to rise up a flue, so it has to be blown out the side of the house. No danger of cooking the hoses. I've often thought about ways of storing them laid out flat, but ultimately I think its the flexing and using them that causes them to break down, not storing them, unless you store them with sharp bends in them. Also, dry rot is the number one killer of vintage vacuum hoses it seems, and I don't think it matters how you store them for that.
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| Post# 381925 , Reply# 10 11/29/2017 at 05:58 (2,332 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
I don’t collect lots of vacuums, but I would imagine using those wide and flat Rubbermaid plastic bins - the kind that are low enough to fit under beds - would be a good solution. You could probably loosely coil 2 or 3 hoses in each of these with some room left over for a wand or two. Put the lid on, label and stack on shelves and problem solved. Keeps everything dry and dust free too.
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| Post# 381926 , Reply# 11 11/29/2017 at 07:41 (2,332 days old) by Real1shep (Walla Walla, WA) | ||
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Not to disparage the South, but anything I have bought with rubber parts in it of any significant age (from there) shows signs of dry rot......Elux vacs included. In fact I won't even buy vacs from that part of the country anymore.
So I think with old hoses, maybe a lot of it has to do with provenance.
Kevin
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| Post# 381934 , Reply# 12 11/29/2017 at 10:47 (2,332 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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| Post# 382809 , Reply# 15 12/17/2017 at 20:05 (2,314 days old) by lux14 (Leawood Kansas) | ||
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Thanks Kevin......hope all is well!!! Have a great holiday freind!!!! | ||
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