AIR HOSE RECOMMENDATIONS

[Rbm]

IF you are smoking in a paint booth you need more help than an air hose can provide.

We all gotta go sometime

 

[Bob Heine]

I like the Flexzilla brand and have both air and garden hoses. When the 3/8" red rubber hoses started cracking on the Harbor Freight reels I replaced them with 1/2" Flexzillas. The rubber hoses have thicker walls so I the 50-foot Flexzilla replacement fits just fine.

I put a triple plug on a short whip so I can attach three air tools at the same time and the whip can be moved to another hose when I'm working outside.

Just like the 50-foot Harbor Freight reel, the 3/8" red hose on the Costco reel was cracking and the 25-foot 1/2" Flexzilla hose fits. The green shower head on the pipe is my way of blowing the dust off me at the end of the day before I enter her ladyship's domain (dumps the air out of the liines as well)..

 

[JC Daniel]

Good information and you have a nice set up Bob.

 

[dhutton01]

Her ladyship’s domain. LMAO....

Don

 

[MX442]

With half a fender to go on my last coat of clear, my fairly new flexzilla blew apart at the fitting @ 120 psi. I nearly soiled myself. So no one here has had one fail?

 

[Jim C]

i never have and this thread is the first i have ever heard of anyone having one fail.

 

[texasking]

With half a fender to go on my last coat of clear, my fairly new flexzilla blew apart at the fitting @ 120 psi. I nearly soiled myself. So no one here has had one fail?

Haven't had one blow apart, but have had one leak at the connection. Buy one of the pro reusable ends to repair it. They are much better. https://www.amazon.com/Flexzilla-RP900250-FLX-REUSABLE-inches/dp/B007QV1F6E?th=1

 

[anotheridiot]

problem with Flexzilla are the aluminum ends. They round so easily if you change plugs alot.

 

[Jim C]

Yes they dont come with the ends so dont buy alum ends for sure. There is no way an alum end will hold up. Even brass sux. Steel has the best life

 

[crashtech]

I think he's talking about the aluminum 1/4" pipe hose barbs that come crimped to the hose. They don't bother me at all since all our lines have the same fitting. We use Amflo steel quick connects with Teflon tape, problems are pretty much nonexistent.

 

[Jim C]

Ahhh yes. Same here