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Re: Braided Hose

To: ardunbill@webtv.net
Subject: Re: Braided Hose
From: Doug Odom <dlodom@charter.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:53:07 -0700
Bill, I have plumbed the last couple of circle track cars with the 
Fragola Push Lite fittings and hose. They are the highest quality and 
best non braided hoses I have used. Just wonder if anyone else is using 
them.  Doug Odom in big ditch

ardunbill@webtv.net wrote:

>Braided hose is traditional and impressive-looking, but a lot of people
>prefer Aeroquip blue hose with push-on fittings from Speedway Motors.
>Elmo Gillette told me about it and it works fine for me.  Anybody else
>here use it?  The barbed fittings are hard to push the hose onto, but
>they never leaked for me.
>
>I tried the Aeroquip braided hose and it was very tough to get the
>fittings onto it.  Plus, it seemed that the extremely tight fittings
>tended to destroy the inner rubber liner of the hose.  But maybe that
>was my fault someway, who knows.  Ardun Bill






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