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Remember to check to see if you have AN or JIC fittings.

Couple of recent articles with good details.

http://www.mechanicsupport.com/articleStronger.html

http://www.eaa.org/experimenter/articles/2010-09_hose_fittings.asp

Tom

From: Mark Steitle <msteitle@gmail.com>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 7, 2012 3:56 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Water & Oil hose / fittings questions

Doug,

Yes, it is amazing at how fast all of this nickle and dime stuff adds up, especially when you do things two or three, maybe four times before you get it the way you wanted it. I like the wiggins couplings as once the lines are fabricated the only thing to wear is a few cheap o-rings, and they can't come apart as long as the hose clamp is in place.

I usually buy my hose and fittings at ANPLUMBING.com (Earl's Supply).

Mark S.

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:41 PM, <DLOMHEIM@aol.com> wrote:

I have had the Summit and Jeggs catalogs out and have been attempting to figure out how much it is going to cost to fun all my oil and coolant lines as well as purchase fittings, etc. In short order it appeared that I would be putting about $1K on the credit card for it all which was sort of surprising!

Have you all found any other sources for hoses and fittings, etc. that will work well with application? Is it any less expensive to use solid aluminum tubing with wiggins couplers and short flexible rubber hose sprinkled here and there; versus all AN fittings, etc?

Thanks for any ideas / suggestions / sources of other products...

The ultimate answer maybe that this is simply the cost of the doing business, etc.; at which point I'll just finish filling out the order and move ahead...

Doug Lomheim

RV-9A / 13B / FWF