The cure for your kinked hose troubles

[jppostKW]

I am finalizing the build of my brew stand a diy thread is upcoming. One of the problems I ran into is the height in my 2 tier stand would make the hoses prone to kinking i looked around for a while and finally found a solution. I added a spring to each end of my female camlock fitting hoses I found these springs at work they are from a four prong trailer plug made by philips industries. I am talking to the company to see if the cable guard for the 15-430 is available alone they have larger ones for 7 wire cables but i cant find the smaller ones

trailer plugs

they fit perfectly over 1/2" OD 3/4" OD silicon tubing. slide right up to the clamp on the barb fitting and i cant get it to kink if I tried!!!

heres the pics

 

[Cheeto]

I have a junk drawer full of those things....

that is just awesome !!

Thanks

jppostKW

 

[JetSmooth]

Kinky!


Or not.

 

[wyzazz]

Nice! 10 char

 

[jppostKW]

I am pretty stoked about them in the third pic thats 3 foot hose with the camlock end is just hanging there before it kinked right over

 

[samc]

Similar springs are available in the hardware store. Can't remember the size or part number but it's a pretty common size. About $2-$3 each.

 

[Bobby_M]

This is why I was so adamant about using a stainless elbow on the camlocks.

 

[BrewMoreBeers]

if anyone finds a source for a similar spring, please post. i think this is great.

 

[jppostKW]

if anyone finds a source for a similar spring, please post. i think this is great.

I'm talking to Philips industries to see if the springs are available separately they should be about 1.75-2 bucks probably less