Tips on installing threaded adapters on dust collection hose needed.

[Robert Blasi]

Hello,

I am trying to complete my nightmare of a dust collection system and could use a few pointers. I have three boxes full of different adapters from Grizzly, Rockler, WoodCraft, Menards and Harbor Freight. My current issue is getting the hose twisted completely onto a threaded adapter. I think this is from Grizzly. The hose is from Menards. Does anyone have a simple trick to get this hose to twist on some more. I have been using a Wilton Vise to hold the fitting while I twist, but so far I am about one thread short.

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[Paul F Franklin]

Hose and fittings come left and right handed so make sure yours are both one or the other. Looks right in the pic, but can't say for sure. Sometimes water with a few drops of dish soap as a lube helps, and sometimes gentle heat from a heat gun. If all else fails, call it good. If it's that hard to get on, it probably isn't going to come off.

[Mike Heidrick]

Many of mine are reverse threaded. You could try loosening it and see if it will go on easier.

[glenn bradley]

I have never had my clear PVC hose bind up. Usually the flange is what stops the threading-on motion. If your hose is cinching up early I would call it good. Air tight is more important than being fully seated. I agree that a bit of dish-soapy water could act as a lube that would dry and help retain. Probably advice too late but, once I tried a few thread on types I switched to slip on with clamps.

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[Robert Blasi]

Hose and fittings come left and right handed so make sure yours are both one or the other. Looks right in the pic, but can't say for sure. Sometimes water with a few drops of dish soap as a lube helps, and sometimes gentle heat from a heat gun. If all else fails, call it good. If it's that hard to get on, it probably isn't going to come off.

They do match. I did not realize they came in two versions, so I originally ordered left hand not knowing with right hand hose. That would not work at all. So then I ordered right hand to go with the right hand hose.

I was thinking along those lines after I posted the question. I am always leary of using soap though as it is a corrosive. I may try the heat gun though.

Many of mine are reverse threaded. You could try loosening it and see if it will go on easier.

That must be some loose hose then. At my age the twisting motion I used made my hands hurt today. What do you mean by loosening it? There is no clamp so I assume you mean making the hose larger somehow.

I have never had my clear PVC hose bind up. Usually the flange is what stops the threading-on motion. If your hose is cinching up early I would call it good. Air tight is more important than being fully seated. I agree that a bit of dish-soapy water could act as a lube that would dry and help retain. Probably advice too late but, once I tried a few thread on types I switched to slip on with clamps.

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I did actually purchase some clear DustRight hose, but then I discovered the hose I bought probably 12 years ago from Menards. As you see, this dust collection system was planned but never built. Never enough time. I also bought some bridge clamps. I did learn about those also being left and right handed as well. I found a supply company online that offers five inch bridge clamps as I needed two for the hose from my blower to the trash can cyclone. I bought those wrong handed after after asking which to get from the supplier. Terrible customer service. As they cost more to ship than to buy. I drilled out the welds and reversed them, and rewelded.

For some reason I am not allowed to look at the photos in your post. Not enough permissions or something.


Thanks all for the answers.

[Robert Blasi]

I guess I am calling it good. After mounting it back in the vice and then heating the hose up, I tried twisting it on the rest of the way. I succeeded in twisting the vice off of the table it was mounted to. This is a clamp on vice made by Wilton, so no I did not turn into the Hulk. I use a number of clamp on fixtures on my work bench as my Rigid TS2400-1 table saw is the structure under the top.

Thanks again.

[Erich Weidner]

Hello,

I am trying to complete my nightmare of a dust collection system and could use a few pointers. I have three boxes full of different adapters from Grizzly, Rockler, WoodCraft, Menards and Harbor Freight. My current issue is getting the hose twisted completely onto a threaded adapter. I think this is from Grizzly. The hose is from Menards. Does anyone have a simple trick to get this hose to twist on some more. I have been using a Wilton Vise to hold the fitting while I twist, but so far I am about one thread short.

I had a similar problem. I rubbed the hard plastic portion with paraffin wax. Hose threaded right on after that.

[Bruce Page]

I only had to fight the fight once but it was a battle. I soaked the hose end in boiling water and used a lot of cuss words, but I got it on.

[Bill Dufour]

When I had a hard time getting a fernco fitting over a cast iron pipe 3 feet down in the ground I used my head. I put a cherne plug inside the fernco female end to expand it for 30 minites or so. Then it slipped it on just fine. I waited another 30 minutes for it to settle back down to size before I tightened the hose clamp all the way.
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