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No I'm not slagging anyone off, its my hosepipe connection. Normally I use stainless jubilee type clips to secure hose onto 15mm copper pipe. If you happen to be an elite athlete like myself it's very easy to crush the copper pipe when tightening up and then you get an annoying drip. If you don't tighten enough you get a drippy connection. So..what do others use for a 360 seal

For a minute there I thought you knew my old girlfriend.

Fixed that one, but still have a dribbly hose

it seems to be a consequence of surving past middle age Mash . I was wondering if the spring type clamps would be ok, can't find any info on here.

Spring clamps?

Do you mean beale clips?

I typed beale clip in search and it came up with Ian Beale that lad in Bellenders
I've decided to make a ' Clamptite' type tool. Not difficult to make and very useful. Full instructions online at my favourite place - YouTube. Check it out Mash

Mash wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 2:39 pm Spring clamps?

Do you mean beale clips?

I googled them and it said beale clips are a series of three encrypted messages… lol

What are they Mash???

Here we go.

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/hose-cli ... ps/0436392

These things are very good. Install with carpenters pincers.
These and a bit of sealant. Bosh!
They also don't have sharp bits if you are handing.
But the don't come off easily... You will need a saw!

Mash wrote: Tue Nov 25, 2025 8:17 am Here we go.

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/hose-cli ... ps/0436392

These things are very good. Install with carpenters pincers.
These and a bit of sealant. Bosh!
They also don't have sharp bits if you are handing.
But the don't come off easily... You will need a saw!

Thanks mate, I just wondered what they were.
I use Tri-clamps on my stills.

Thanks for that Mash, I looked at them and the single ear type. I'm liking the Clamptite tool best so far. It's going to be easy to make from a turnbuckle, and will come in handy. I've just finished helping my mate to replace a blown head gasket on his 6 cylinder diesel boat engine, a Clamptite would have been good for that with the number of hoses on that fecker. We lost a few jubilee clips in the bilge never to be seen again
Have you been drinking Copperhead ? You posted the same thing three times I've done the samething...but only twice

buffalobob wrote: Tue Nov 25, 2025 10:54 am Have you been drinking Copperhead ? You posted the same thing three times I've done the samething...but only twice

I think there was a glitch with the forum, I hit the submit button to post then it wanted me to sign in again. That happened 3 times. But I only posted once. Strange its posted 3 times…

Yeah, it must have been a glitch Copperhead, three times. You weren't looking through the bottom of your glass when you tried to hit the submit button were you not judging mate we all like a drink on here it was quite early on in the day though

Clamptite.. Yeah always fancied one. But I don't do that much really.

I think copperhead was having a bad night
Posting 3 times. Just amateur . & ??Triclamps??

I only mess around with hose fittings if they leak which isn't that often but jubilee type clips aren't ideal they do drip now and again. I didn't know clamptite tools existed till I did a search for hose clamps on YouTube. I like the look of them but I'm such a tight fisted git I can't contemplate the thought of shelling out for summat I can make from bits of scrap and basic hand tools. I'll have a look for parts in my ' Keep for later it might come in handy ' corner.
Copperhead knows the craic on this forum, we like a bit of good humoured jocularity. It's a shame that our good friend Roberts imput has been missing for a long time, I miss his slant of things

So do I. But we have kept in touch and he is fine.

Thats great, pass on my kindest regards Mash.

buffalobob wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 8:43 pm It's a shame that our good friend Roberts imput has been missing for a long time, I miss his slant of things

Is Robert “ Easydrinker” ???

Seen that name a lot in reading different threads here…

Mash wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 11:10 am For a minute there I thought you knew my old girlfriend.
Fixed that one, but still have a dribbly hose

MY first senior year in college. But a quick trip to the Student Health Center..... I digress.

NOW at THIS age it's more like that 6 a.m. trip to the bathroom without putting my glasses on.

Copperhead road wrote: Thu Nov 27, 2025 12:07 am

buffalobob wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 8:43 pm It's a shame that our good friend Roberts imput has been missing for a long time, I miss his slant of things

Is Robert “ Easydrinker” ???

Seen that name a lot in reading different threads here…

That's the one.

So I eventually got round to knocking a clamping tool up. There are quite a few types but I chose the turnbuckle route cos I had one in a drawer and it's fairly easy to convert. The handle is a made from thermoplastic. I put a rod through the socket and forced the softened plastic into the top of the socket, when the plastic hardens take the rod out, now the threaded bolt can go through the plastic handle. I only had 2mm stainless to hand, 1.5mm would've been easier, 2mm is a bit on the stiff side. I kept the bottom turnbuckle thread to lock in the 3mm stainless cross piece. The brass bit just happened to have a 6mm thread so that's what the tensioning bar became. I had to buy a long 6mm bolt which hurt a little bit.

I kept the left hand thread and drilled out the right hand thread. It's easier for me to turn the handle clockwise cos I'm right handed. If you're a lefty keep the right hand thread

Now that is a good thing.
Hmm I think I see a tinkering coming on. I can probably find all the bits around the place.

I'd been drinking when I posted last so it might be the other way around

buffalobob wrote: Thu Dec 25, 2025 8:59 pm I'd been drinking when I posted last so it might be the other way around

lol
Righty tighty, lefty loose’e…

OK I've thunk it through, if you're a lefty get a long bolt with a left hand thread

Alternatively, could you not drill out one end and pin it?