Steel Braided Hose

[H]

Ohki Dohki clever kids, I've been meaning to ask this for a while, I'm bored so i might as well.

I'm almost on the verge of getting a new marker soon, as i hope to be getting back into ball once uni is done in month or so. Currently I have a standard black plastic macro line connecting my AIR to my imp's front reg and I was wondering about the feasibility of steel braided hosing. To be honest, some of the accidents that have happened over the last year involving air systems have kinda **** me up (inc Toulouse). The amount of pressure that is going through that plastic hose, and the amount of abuse they regally get is a recipe for 500+psi disaster.

So i was wondering, what are the other options concerning steel hose. It's highly likely that i will be keeping my air system and then connecting it to my new marker, be it an EBlade, Angel, Timmy, DM4 whatever. How does one go about fitting steel braided hosing? Ideally I'd want it all set up by somone who REALLY knows what they are doing....those guys hacking away at the wrong type of macro-line with a razor and then bashing 700psi through it makes me run for cover. I've looked on planet's website and i see no mention of braided hose at all, which is rather odd. Say, for example, i order myself a shiny new EBlade cocker from Planet...could i have it fitted with the right gubbins so it can be connected to my air system by braided hose? I'm not sure exactly how the stuff works, but can it be of custom length, without having far too much of the stuff all over?

Also, is it possible for steel braided hosing to be coloured at all? Or at least a very shiny silver to match the 'blingness' of the rest of the marker?

 

[dr.strangelove]

I have macro line that's rated to 1100 psi, and you can also buy (from, say, Tom Allen on this board) fittings that are rated to close to the same. So with the right hosing and fittings, you shouldn't be at all worried about plastic hosing.

But, if you're dead set on steel braided hose, it's easy to convert. You just buy fittings for steel braided hose (they're just elbows with male thread on one end, female on the other. The male goes to the ASA and the marker, respectively, and the hose screws into the female ends inbetween), and order the length of hose that you need (many places sell custom lengths, professionally assembled). You can get lengths anywhere from 2" to a few feet, usually in increments of 1". So basically, buy fittings for steel braided hose, replace them with the macroline fittings you had before, get the proper lenth of steel braided hose, screw it into the fittings, and you're all done.

 

[Mikey D]

as mentioned, get in contact with tom allen. £15 gets you 2 high pressure fittings and a foot of hose. the stuff is tested to very high limits, think it eventually broke at 4400psi about that so absolutely no worries with these.

ask many of the users on here. so many have purchased off him, and I have heard of no problems at all. gets my recommendation, and much easier to use than steel hose

 

[IanC]

Seriously mate, just get some good quality macro line and you will be fine!

To my knowledge all the nasty accidents that have occured recently were on the high pressure side of the regulator anyway, with fill nipples blowing off at up to 4.5k psi!!!!!!

I've run macro line at over 1000 psi into a mag with no problems what so ever!!!!

 

[outkast iain]

i begg to differ

i had brand new top quality microline on mine and look what happend to me last year.... but what alteratives do we have?

 

[Ben Frain]

There is SFD hosing, that comes with screw in fittings either end of a highly flexible hose section. Costs about £28 for both ends and the hose. As far as I am aware LPS are the only people who do it though... seems to me however, as the safest solution...

 

[dr.strangelove]

i begg to differ

Originally posted by outkast iain
i had brand new top quality microline on mine and look what happend to me last year.... but what alteratives do we have?

Exactly, you had mIcro line. You need higher quality, higher pressure mAcro line, and good fittings and youll be fine

 

[outkast iain]

dont agree

went through all this last year dude......

 

[dr.strangelove]

Check the PSI rating on the lines that you blew. I'll bet they were too low for the amount of pressure you had traveling through them. I've had the same 1200 psi lines and fittings on 4 different markers for the past couple years, and never blown one.

 

[Tom Allen]

dont agree

Originally posted by outkast iain
went through all this last year dude......

Iain did you try the fittings and macroline i sent you.