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Remove curls from garden hose
I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard. I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much. Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy |
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Remove curls from garden hose
On 06/08/2020 18:05, AK wrote:
I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard. I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much. Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy No, buy a thick rubber type one, they don't curl up. |
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Remove curls from garden hose
On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 18:15:13 +0100, Bod wrote:
On 06/08/2020 18:05, AK wrote: I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard. I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much. Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy No, buy a thick rubber type one, they don't curl up. + 1 Also, hang it up in large loops ; drained of water. John T. |
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On Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 7:35:14 PM UTC-5, Bob F wrote:
On 8/6/2020 11:43 AM, wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 18:15:13 +0100, Bod wrote: On 06/08/2020 18:05, AK wrote: I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard. I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much. Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy No, buy a thick rubber type one, they don't curl up. + 1 Also, hang it up in large loops ; drained of water. John T. I assume you are talking about kinks in the hose. Avoid that first kink. Hose reels properly used mostly prevent this problem. Once you kink a hose, it is hard to not have the problem repeat. You can squeeze the sides of the kink to make the hose round instead of flattened there again, then let it sit that way for awhile to lessen the problem. Do not hang the hose over anything small enough the the hose folds over it. I am not talking about kinks. Just those curls that were present when it was coiled up at the store. Andy |
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In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 7 Aug 2020 05:42:44 -0700 (PDT), AK
wrote: On Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 7:35:14 PM UTC-5, Bob F wrote: On 8/6/2020 11:43 AM, wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 18:15:13 +0100, Bod wrote: On 06/08/2020 18:05, AK wrote: I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard. Use the same curls that the hose came with to hang up the hose. You certainly don't want the hose straight so you have to hand one end 50' from the other end. if the hose were straight, you'd have to make those curls. I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much. Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy No, buy a thick rubber type one, they don't curl up. + 1 Also, hang it up in large loops ; drained of water. John T. I assume you are talking about kinks in the hose. Avoid that first kink. Hose reels properly used mostly prevent this problem. Once you kink a hose, it is hard to not have the problem repeat. You can squeeze the sides of the kink to make the hose round instead of flattened there again, then let it sit that way for awhile to lessen the problem. Do not hang the hose over anything small enough the the hose folds over it. I am not talking about kinks. Just those curls that were present when it was coiled up at the store. Andy |
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Remove curls from garden hose
On 8/6/20 12:15 PM, Bod wrote:
On 06/08/2020 18:05, AK wrote: I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard. I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much. Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy No, buy a thick rubber type one, they don't curl up. I have a couple of rubber hoses from Sears. They are the best hoses I've had, except they are heavy. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ." -- Heine |
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Remove curls from garden hose
On 07/08/2020 19:30, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 8/6/20 12:15 PM, Bod wrote: On 06/08/2020 18:05, AK wrote: I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard. I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much. Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy No, buy a thick rubber type one, they don't curl up. I have a couple of rubber hoses from Sears. They are the best hoses I've had, except they are heavy. Yes. |
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On 8/6/20 12:05 PM, AK wrote:
I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard. I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much. Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy I haven't tried this but...................... Can you unroll it as much as possible, then air it up with a compressor close to the hose's maximum pressure? |
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On Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 12:22:11 PM UTC-5, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 8/6/20 12:05 PM, AK wrote: I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard. I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much. Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy I haven't tried this but...................... Can you unroll it as much as possible, then air it up with a compressor close to the hose's maximum pressure? How can you air up a water hose with an air compressor? The fittings are incompatible. Andy |
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On 8/7/20 7:40 AM, AK wrote:
On Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 12:22:11 PM UTC-5, Dean Hoffman wrote: On 8/6/20 12:05 PM, AK wrote: I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard. I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much. Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy I haven't tried this but...................... Can you unroll it as much as possible, then air it up with a compressor close to the hose's maximum pressure? How can you air up a water hose with an air compressor? The fittings are incompatible. Andy I bet your hardware store has garden hose to plumbing adapters. Garden hose thread (ght) to national pipe thread (npt). |
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Remove curls from garden hose
On 8/7/2020 5:40 AM, AK wrote:
On Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 12:22:11 PM UTC-5, Dean Hoffman wrote: On 8/6/20 12:05 PM, AK wrote: I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard. I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much. Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy I haven't tried this but...................... Can you unroll it as much as possible, then air it up with a compressor close to the hose's maximum pressure? How can you air up a water hose with an air compressor? The fittings are incompatible. I would use the fitting I made for blowing out the sprinklers. For your "curl" problem, you need to either untwist the hose as you unwind the roll, or unroll it like it is on a roller, wind it up and unwind it from one side to the other each winding, or use a hose reel that you can just pull the hose straight off of. |
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Remove curls from garden hose
On 8/6/20 1:05 PM, AK wrote:
I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard. I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much. Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy Lay it out in the sun for a few hours and it will soften. -- Why is it that the people who want more government control over your life are the same ones who want you to be disarmed? |
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Remove curls from garden hose
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 08:42:58 -0400, Wade Garrett wrote:
On 8/6/20 1:05 PM, AK wrote: I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard. I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much. Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy Lay it out in the sun for a few hours and it will soften. +1 That's what I do. |
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Remove curls from garden hose
On 8/7/2020 7:42 AM, Wade Garrett wrote:
On 8/6/20 1:05 PM, AK wrote: I am having a hard time getting my hose in shape to hang up, but the curls in it are making that hard. I did a search for removing curls from a garden hose, but did not find much. Is there a way of removing the curls? Andy Lay it out in the sun for a few hours and it will soften. Indeed. New hoses come coiled pretty tightly; to straighten you have to take the twist introduced in the coiling process out...straighten it out and keep twisting one end until have it straight -- it's convenient if it happens to have enough of a design on the cover to be able to see when it is actually straight. Give it some time in that position to relax...of course, when you get ready to roll it back up, you'll reintroduce the twist for each coil, but if you don't use a hose reel and use large coil size it'll be a much lower number of twists overall... As another says, on the farm we've got acres of yard so just leaving them out is easy; in an apartment tough to do that... Of course, if they stay out in the hot sun and UV for too long, many will then also harden from the UV damage...can't win for losing. That may not be such an issue in more temperate climes... -- |
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