I bought 2 sections of yellow paraflex from cobb about 5 years ago, used it for a year and a half as the first 2 sections, then I bought a 100 footer of the blue KMA paraflex and moved the original 2 yellow hoses lower on the reel. I have been using the blue KMA 100 footer for the last 3 or 4 years can't remember how long. it started to sweat and drip on one end about 6 mos ago, had it cut back a foot and that was fine, then a couple months ago the other end started doing the same thing, so I had it cut back and recrimped its working fine now too. the best thing is it would only drip when the hose was cold and first hooked up, once it heated up there was no leaking so I could easily get through the job or even the entire day before having to fix it. so 5 years later I am still using the same hoses, I do only run my machine about 350 hours a year so I am not seeing the hours and use that some are, but I can say that every year I had to replace ALL of my goodyear hoses before, plus they would blow in catastrophic fashion spewing black shit everywhere sometimes. I also never had that great of luck having the goodyear hoses recrimped at that point it was best to just throw them out. parker is the only hose you should be using, its well worth the extra money in longer lifespan and the fact is doesn't blow out in catastrophic fashion.
