The last two days at my wash have probably been the best in seven years. Salt then 50 degree weather. Today I had a 1" high pressure hose rupture on my gantry. I needed to shut the bay down and offer free washes to about 8 cars who were waiting and probably lost $300-$400 while I spent a couple hours replacing the hose. The rupture was small and I was half tempted to try and strap some hose straps and rubber hosing around it but thought it might be a futile effort. Is there any band-aid type repair you can do to these hoses to avoid the loss of business?
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Is There a Quick Fix Band Aid For Blown High Pressure Hose
- Thread starter Buzzie8
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under pressure
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I thought I heard of someone on here talking about just what you described, I think they came up with cuting a POP can up and wraping it around the hose and then using afew hose clamps and said that worked , I thing that was a 3/8 line tho, not sure if that would work on a 1 in hose.
mjwalsh
6 bay SS w/laundromat
Buz,
Do you think this would be quick enough? Maybe do part of process done in advance.
http://forum.autocareforum.com/showthread.php?t=7772
Reusable ends are fairly quick with a good grinder (cordless) with a cutting wheel if it is wire braid hose. We have both a peanut air grinder & an electric but not sure on the cordless.
Mike
Ghetto Wash
Active member
One of the best investments in tools that I made for the carwashes:
http://www.dewalt.com/tools/cordless-metal-working-cut-off-tools-dc415kl.aspx
Except mine is 18V.
MEP001
Well-known member
As hard as it is to screw together a 3/8" reusable hose fitting, I doubt a 1" would even be possible by hand.
I've "patched" a leaking hose temporarily by slitting a larger hose, wrapping it around the leak and putting several hose clamps on it. It has never stopped the leak completely but it slows it enough to keep in operation.
I've "patched" a leaking hose temporarily by slitting a larger hose, wrapping it around the leak and putting several hose clamps on it. It has never stopped the leak completely but it slows it enough to keep in operation.
ted mcmeekin
Fast and Clean
we have repaired 1 inch many times with reuseable ends and a union--that way we can keep hose in place--just cut out bad spot and roll. Nice thing is later when we replace hose-just throw reuseable ends and union in box and you are ready to go next time.
It is a little difficult to screw reuseable end into hose but with 2 people you can do it--my son holds hose and I use long handled wrench--he complains while I have all the mechanical advantage.
We have also used insert barbed fittings and hose clamps--low pressure. Fairly quick.
Ted
It is a little difficult to screw reuseable end into hose but with 2 people you can do it--my son holds hose and I use long handled wrench--he complains while I have all the mechanical advantage.
We have also used insert barbed fittings and hose clamps--low pressure. Fairly quick.
Ted
Did the same thing but one of my employees had a product named "shoe glue".
Very thick gooey glue that he said a lot of masonry guys use on their shoes.
We dried the hose and slathered it on the cracked hose and then wrapped it like MEE001 said. It set up fairly quickly.
Worked pretty good until we had time to replace the hose.
Thanks guys, I actually remembered this thread after the first post. Too bad I forgot about it this weekend. I guess it didn't matter anyway, the swivel was rusted out and it started leaking there as well. So I lost another hour today. This has been the best four days I have had since I opened 7 years ago! It would have been perfect if I didn't have these hose problems.
