I now have the hoses back from Spectrum and at first glance they look really good. What do you think?
In order to try and preempt some questions you may have I sent an email to Neil with some of the more obvious one's.
Hi Frank,
To answer your questions.
Does a potential customer defiantly have to supply usable ends?*
Yes, we don’t have the tooling to copy the ends.
Is there any way you can manufacture the ends if they are unusable?*
No.
Did you put a plastic / Teflon sleeve inside the high pressure pipe?
Yes, I removed the small Nylon tubes and their fittings that secures them in place and the restrictor and refitted them all into the High Pressure hose.
Did you draw a pattern or are you still relying on a sample? I make notes and do a sketch when I do this type of job but I need a donor hose for the ends so it ends up as being a pattern as well. It makes things easier if I am given a complete hose assembly to copy, when people try to dismantle them they usually end up damaging the inner Nylon tube and I don’t know the orientations of the ends which makes the job trickier.
Hope these answers help
Kind Regards
Neil Rutter
Director
Spectrum Hose Ltd
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I guess before we can call this a 100% success, someone needs to try them out.
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