Best 1/4" tubing for bays

[Clintearl]

Currently have poly tubing carrying the chemicals to each bay. They have seem to gotten dryed out and cracking from the heat of roof . Would nylon poly tubing be a better product or stick with the polyethelene tubing? My car wash is about 5 years old.

 

[Randy]

Is your tubing covered on the roof or is it exposed to the elements? Polyethylene tubing that exposed to the suns UV rays will get brittle and crack /break in no time. You want to use nylon tubing if it exposed to the sun. The very best tubing to use would be Stainless Steel tubing

 

[Clintearl]

The tubing is not exposed to the sun, it is just under the metal roof. It gets really hot.

 

[MEP001]

http://mdmetric.com/prod/mazzer/nylontubing.html

This is the "good stuff". Heat won't make it deteriorate, and it will expand with no harm if the fluid in it freezes. Its working pressure is 250 PSI; polyethylene is only 100.

 

[mjwalsh]

http://mdmetric.com/prod/mazzer/nylontubing.html

This is the "good stuff". Heat won't make it deteriorate, and it will expand with no harm if the fluid in it freezes. Its working pressure is 250 PSI; polyethylene is only 100.

Mep,

Does this "good stuff" seal on a hose barb better than the lesser tubing??? In our petwash it is critical to get a really tight seal on all the tubing so that chemical draw is not ever interrupted.

MJ

 

[MEP001]

Nylon tubing isn't used with hose barbs.

 

[mac]

One thing I found with tubing, being in warm Florida, is what color is it? Do not use anything but black colored tubing. Even when not directly exposed to the sun the colored lines will rot out in a few years.

 

[MEP001]

Nylon tubing doesn't "rot" from heat.

 

[pitzerwm]

All plastics change, some UV damage, so just age. Black color resist UV the best. I have no idea why, but a wizard friend of mine tested this.

 

[cleaning up mud]

EVERYTHING wears out after time! Like ME!