watch your hoses

[Rifleman1776]

I have been using my stabilizing set-up for over two years. It is very basic, an old paint pot connected to a Gast vacuum pump via a section of high pressure hose.
Today I started a batch and noticed the hose was almost completely collapsed. Actually, it makes sense but I hadn't thought of it previously. Drawing solvent fumes through the hose has weakened it. This could cause a failure for the vacuum to work properly if there should be a complete collapse.
Fortunately, I have a large quantity of the hose on hand. I bought a coil from an industrial liquidation at low cost. What I have will last quite a few years, even replacing what is in use once a year or so.
But, this could be a matter of concern for some who might not be getting the results they did early in their stabilizing days.
Check yer hoses.

 

[IPD_Mr]

Well Frank welcome back to the fray. It has been almost a year now.

Like you I think it is better to keep an eye on the hose and replace it from time to time. Chemical rated high pressure hose is not cheap.

 

[workinforwood]

As must be done..the comedy side of things...watch them hosers too! eh..what's a hoser?

Like the very similar term hosehead, the term may have referred to farmers of the Canadian prairies, who would siphon gasoline from farming vehicles with a hose during the Great Depression of the 1930s.[citation needed] The expression has since been converted to the verb 'to hose' as in to trick, deceive, or steal (e.g., "That card-shark sure hosed me."). Hosed has an additional meaning of becoming drunk - for example: "Let's go out and get hosed." Another possible origin is derived from hockey slang. Before ice resurfacers, the losing team in a hockey game would have to hose down the rink after a game. Thus the term "hoser" being synonymous with "loser".
A hoser's flannel shirt may also be referred to as a "Kenora dinner jacket". (Some regional variations of this term also exist, usually substituting a hoser-stereotyped local community's name in place of Kenora.)[3]