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Re: Braided Hose

To: "Doug Odom" <dlodom@charter.net>, <ardunbill@webtv.net>
Subject: Re: Braided Hose
From: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 21:39:53 -0400
I've used Fragola braided stuff and they are a bunch easier to put together 
than some of the others out there.

JB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Odom" <dlodom@charter.net>
To: <ardunbill@webtv.net>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: Braided Hose


> 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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