This is for a DC08 foot, which has badly split rectangular hose.
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I had hoped it would be easy to source a replacement hose but searches on the likes of eBay haven't been fruitful.Any ideas?
Sourcing reinforced rectangular flexible hose
Dec 23, 2021
Last reply: 4 years ago
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Hmm, how about ?circularising? a bit of it and measuring the diameter and then ?squaring? an appropriate bit of round hose?
Tim
Beat me to it! Does it actually have to be accurately square, or would a round hose made elliptical do the job well enough?
Is it this one?
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Apollo 13 problem:-)
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I didn't originally recognise it as a Dyson part, which is likely to make bodging more difficult. But surely they are quite good for spares?
Nope! Seems like it's a common problem "We have scrapped many a good head because that hose was split. Dyson don't won't supply it, and we have never found anything comparable that will fit instead either." -
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obviously don't need it but there is a stripdown thread with lots of pictures -
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Business opportunity or planned obsolescence? Without looking up how old the model is, I'm not sure whether to criticise Dyson.
you may have to buy on of these
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Use an off cut of electrical 25mm flexible conduit and 'warm' it into shape with hot water ?.
Is flexible conduit available in greater diameter then 25mm ??
"Suction Hose" is certainly available in 2" and 3" and larger.
Yup. any market stall selling vacuum cleaner spares...
Also eBay. The hose typically used for larger Koi Carp installations has a fairly thin "wall" but the plastic "spring" is strong enough to prevent it collapsing in a vaccuum cleaner too. Being thermoplastic, there might be scope for making it rectangular by warming, although you would need to take care to prevent damaging the "wall".
rectangular wood up the middle and a heat gun and towel to press it into shape,
Or bite the bullet and buy from China
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Suitably sized bit of wood. Wrap with duct tape, sticky side out. Wrap with wire. Wrap with duct tape, sticky side in.
Coarse, but might work?
Thomas Prufer
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