Anyone recommend a supplier of these? It's for assorted hosepipery on my drainage system.
(Preferably where the whole thing is S/S, unlike the last lot I bought, where the band is, but the housing for the worm drive isn't...)
If they make the things in stainless, Jubilee themselves. I haven't seen them I must admit, but I've seen a lot of rubbish quality worm- drive clips in stainless and I haven't seen anything that was as well made as real Jubilees, other than Jubilee. If I cared about this stuff (boats maybe), I'd want Jubilee.
Did that in a friend's (commercial) greenhouse a year or two back. Couldn't afford worm drives for the miles of hose involved, so we used some spring-fit bent wire things instead, a la car assembly line (and bought the right fitting pliers too). These were quick, cheap, and have no moving parts to rust up. If you ever do want to remove them, you're usually sacrificing the last couple of inches of hose anyway,
I don't know about "recommend" but the only places I've ever got them from are the "Marine Superstore" at Port Solent and Aladdin's Cave at Hamble. Sodding expensive but they lasted for over fifteen years on the boat, exposed to salt water.
ABA Minaba? They are swedish, a double band hose clamp which works very well and does not damage hoses and clamps evenly. Check the automotive racing suppliers, demon tweeks etc. Very good for critical oil lines in tight or difficult to access places on engines (engine oil-to-water coolers stuffed above oil filters for example, or ATX coolers stuffed in odd places).
These are the ones in question:
I buy boxes of them at a time from BTLS-Hayley. Next day service and genuine Jubilee clips, which are all stainless steel.
Nah !... You dont want anything *that* expensive and troublesome to do up.... You need
Actually, Jubilee clips are easy enough to do up, but it's astonishing how corrosive "grey water" is.
Interesting. Can you do them up reasonably tight without the special tool?
Low tension in the cable tie means a low clamping force, especially on inelastic hoses.
If you've got the hose over some mighty ogival spigot (which in turn requires an elastic hose), you can easily clamp it in place with a tie- wrap, but might find that it leaks, as you've clamped it _behind_ the fat bit. If you do it on barbs, it might work more reliably, but again you're dependent on hose elasticity.
What we found for the greenhouse (and enormous local mains water pressure) was that connections had to be good, or else it leaked like a sieve. The distribution hose was some expensive fabric-reinforced stuff so that it didn't fail after a few years in a greenhouse and that hardly had any elasticity, so it required loose fits and good clamps. The permable (black neoprene(?) foam) delivery hoses were stretchy but soft. They'd clamp and seal over anything, but a clamp that was too sharp or tight tended to split them and the hose tore clean off. Wire spring clamps with a rounded edge worked well for both.
For biggish sizes you might be a lot better off empoying "Band-It! strapping which empoys SS strap and SS clips. I bought a secondhand band-it tool with a half box of clips and most of a reel of 15mm wide strapping at a car boot a couple of years ago for ten quid. You would be amazed at the range of applications band-it has once you start to use it!
On 2010-06-23, Nightjar
Ok, thanks. Boat sold a year ago now, so not much interest anymore.
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