Mine lasted one season. The internal plastic tube broke inside the male end and the hose fell down with the male end still connected to a deck pipe. Not repairable with your method, but I appreciate your video and had never heard of marine grade shrink tubing so that was worth learning about. My suggestion to people is do not buy this product. Probably too late for anyone who watches this video though😂.
Best - Best - BEST - metal hose repair video I found, and I looked at way too many. Thank you! You covered everything but were very succinct. Much appreciated1
I used a brass coupleer fitting, instead of the clear plastic. Forcing the fitting, into the clear hose piece was the hardest bit. Second hardest was to make sure you have your " marine grade" heat shrink tubing on the hose. Then I made sure to run a bit of sand paper over my coupled pieces. Glue sticks better to rough then smooth. Use a hair dryer or heat gun, rather than a turbo torch. The turbo torch gets the connection "too hot" and screws up the soft plastic inner hose.
BEST repair idea I've seen, yet. I fix a lot of things with shrink tubing. This seems like just the ticket. Other methods I've tried and others I've seen tried don't last and some look crummy, too. This is a good-looking repair and the outer shrink tubing is a lot better-looking and durable than tape. Thanks for a great fix!!
This was very helpful. The screw collar on my Bionic Steel Hose just started leaking bad after a yr of use. I’m so annoyed since they were expensive. TY
its always the inner hose that leaks , it is where the water flows and the metal just supports the pressure . if it is one of the earlier hoses made it would be easier and cheaper to toss it . the only good stainless hoses now that i have found are the one called BIONIC HOSE and only buy it if it has brass fittings on both ends . those so far have lasted me 2 years without a leak , i have 6 of them , i do pressure washing and some jobs are extremely long fences so i need that much hose
are you saying the leak is at the connection to water source ? If so a lot of hoses have a twist on them that you can tighten with water off that will fix it .
I got a variety pack on ebay but amazon sells it also . I bought the ones listed as marine grade because it shrinks with heat and also has a glue released with heat
Mine lasted one season. The internal plastic tube broke inside the male end and the hose fell down with the male end still connected to a deck pipe. Not repairable with your method, but I appreciate your video and had never heard of marine grade shrink tubing so that was worth learning about. My suggestion to people is do not buy this product. Probably too late for anyone who watches this video though😂.
Best - Best - BEST - metal hose repair video I found, and I looked at way too many. Thank you! You covered everything but were very succinct. Much appreciated1
Thanks for the help. I used a brass coupler glued to the hose with E6000 adhesive. Covered with marine grade shrink tubing. Holding up great.
Thanks for the heads up about using marine grade shrink tubing. I was able to fix 2 hoses using a modified version of what you did!
I used a brass coupleer fitting, instead of the clear plastic. Forcing the fitting, into the clear hose piece was the hardest bit. Second hardest was to make sure you have your " marine grade" heat shrink tubing on the hose. Then I made sure to run a bit of sand paper over my coupled pieces. Glue sticks better to rough then smooth.
Use a hair dryer or heat gun, rather than a turbo torch. The turbo torch gets the connection "too hot" and screws up the soft plastic inner hose.
BEST repair idea I've seen, yet. I fix a lot of things with shrink tubing. This seems like just the ticket. Other methods I've tried and others I've seen tried don't last and some look crummy, too. This is a good-looking repair and the outer shrink tubing is a lot better-looking and durable than tape. Thanks for a great fix!!
This was very helpful. The screw collar on my Bionic Steel Hose just started leaking bad after a yr of use. I’m so annoyed since they were expensive. TY
AWESOME!!! THANKS MIKE!👍😉🇨🇦
Hell yeah....worked like a charm!
Great video . Thank you .
Nice! Doing this now!
Hi. What specific glue did you use to join the inner plastic together to the damaged vinyl hose? Thank you
the marine shrink tube when heated releases a glue . that is all i used
@@mikejones-qz1wk hi. So when you added the plastic piece to join both sides of the garden hose, you didn’t glue that part at all? Thanks.
If the inner hose has a leak, but no problems with the stainless steel portion how do you get to the leak?
its always the inner hose that leaks , it is where the water flows and the metal just supports the pressure . if it is one of the earlier hoses made it would be easier and cheaper to toss it . the only good stainless hoses now that i have found are the one called BIONIC HOSE and only buy it if it has brass fittings on both ends . those so far have lasted me 2 years without a leak , i have 6 of them , i do pressure washing and some jobs are extremely long fences so i need that much hose
and can you provide a link to the shrink tube you used?
it is on ebay , listed as marine grade shrink tube , it is a varity pack 5 sizes up to 3/4 inch .its great stuff
Also on Amazon:
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Our leak on the stainless steel hose is connected at the house will the shrink tubing work on that leak?
are you saying the leak is at the connection to water source ? If so a lot of hoses have a twist on them that you can tighten with water off that will fix it .
what type of tube did you use to connect the 2 ends?
best to use thun wall copper but i used a bic ink pen on this one
If you don't have a heat gun is there another way to shrink it? Hair dryer?
yes a hairdryer will work
@@mikejones-qz1wk thank you!
@@marcymcguire7900 you are very welcome
How do you remove the metal? Mine has several leaks
Where do you buy shrink tubing
I got a variety pack on ebay but amazon sells it also . I bought the ones listed as marine grade because it shrinks with heat and also has a glue released with heat
yeah but what are the two sizes you used on video? no point in buying extra size that don’t fit..
From the factory lol