I have deemed the cause of the premature failure of my Parker Parflex hose to be:

[KevinD]

The heat shrunk vinyl heat sleeves / bend restrictors retaining too much heat.

I believe Greenie was right. I got about 7 years on the hose I got from him with the wire bend restrictors that allow the hose to breathe. Actually the hose did not fail. About 10' back I finally rubbed a spot in the hose right around where it would always catch under a door or something.

Yesterday I removed all the heat sleeves on the parflex hose and under the sleeves every end was ballooned apart from the excess heat being trapped.

 

[Mikey P]

I wonder where he got that idea for those springs..

 

[SamIam]

Well let's ask him?

 

[SamIam]

Kevin what kinda heat do you have????

 

[hogjowl]

I wonder where he got that idea for those springs..

Oh, I'm certain it was you or Chavez.

The two BB narcissists.

 

[SamIam]

https://nosoupforyou.com/shop/hose-parts/non-slip-bend-restrictors/?v=e2ae933451f4

Joe sells these they breath a little but still do their job.

 

[Mikey P]

Oh, I'm certain it was you or Chavez.

The two BB narcissists.

The world is full of boring people, go hang out on Bristors board if we overwhelm you with our greatness.

 

[hogjowl]

I thought Foster owned that board?

 

[Desk Jockey]

Sorry I know its tough hanging with me. Whut with me being Mighty and all.

 

[SamIam]

I thought Foster owned that board?

Foster AFK

It's Joe 3rd board foster was part of the first.

 

[Wandslinger]

Well, I must say I picked up some Bristor bend restrictors at ICE last year. They rock all the way around...buy some

 

[hogjowl]

Some poor smuck just posted on FB that he'd just "been Bristored". LOL. Said Joe refused to ship him his latest order because ... Now get this ... because the poor dude had purchased a reel from Reel Solutions ( or Innovations...whatever) and Duane owed him money! Bristor told the guy he needed to lean on Duane!

Bristor is something else.

 

[KevinD]

Kevin what kinda heat do you have????

I set my thermostat to about 220

 

[FFA]

I too was abused by Bristor

 

[Desk Jockey]

LOL everyone will be eventually


I wouldn't buy shit from him. Wait, does he have a good price on shit.

Ok how many posts to I have to make in order to be able to buy?

Or better how much money do I get from the advertisers when we share in the profits.

Good lord, you can't make shit up this good.


P.S. please no nasty grams Joe.

 

[hogjowl]

I know this is shocking, but it's possible he doesn't think about you.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Cool I'm good with that.

 

[FFA]

LOL everyone will be eventually


I wouldn't buy shit from him. Wait, does he have a good price on shit.

Ok how many posts to I have to make in order to be able to buy?

Or better how much money do I get from the advertisers when we share in the profits.

Good lord, you can't make shit up this good.


P.S. please no nasty grams Joe.

That face you get when you find out he has something you need..

 

[Desk Jockey]

Yeah well if he has it, I don't need it.

 

[Larry Cobb]

We use a strain relief that fits tightly on the crimp, but loosely on the hose itself for better cooling.

We use lots of ParFlex and have not seen the ballooning that you noticed (other than wear).

Of course 230 is max rated temp, so we use 50' of blue wire-braid for temp spikes.

 

[GeneMiller]

I'm going to have to give that stuff a try, some day.. For some reason my hands have become sensitive to the heat. It's cheap enough to try.

 

[roro]

I wonder where he got that idea for those springs..

Modesty precludes one telling
but it was before he achieved guru status

 

[KevinD]

We use a strain relief that fits tightly on the crimp, but loosely on the hose itself for better cooling.

Not on the parker hose you sold me.
The sleeves are heat shrunk so tight to the hose you cannot pull them back till you get the hose real hot.
As for wear, there is no wear under the sleeve.

 

[Larry Cobb]

Those were the original Parker strain reliefs.
We recently changed strain reliefs to a new model that fits looser on the hose,
but still fit tight on the crimp.

 

[KevinD]

Those were the original Parker strain reliefs.
We recently changed strain reliefs to a new model that fits looser on the hose,
but still fit tight on the crimp.
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Sounds like you agree with the theory of the tight sleeves retaining too much heat if you went to a new style.

 

[Larry Cobb]

We changed because we thought it was a better strain relief.

Better cooling was a secondary benefit.