chocotaco
Well-Known Member
4 questions:
1. Is it possible to over-tighten worm drive clamps? I tighten the bejeezus out of them and it still seems to be a crap shoot for me whether or not I will have leaks.
2. Has anyone tried those heat-shrink permanent plastic hose clamps? Gates PowerGrip, they're called.
3. I'm in the process of redoing all of my lines with Colder APC disconnects, just to make it easier to swap out lines and move things around. Anyone have experience with these? When using them with gas, can they leak? They work great with liquid (it would be obvious if there was a liquid leak) but I can't rule them out as a leak source - lost all my CO2 recently to a slow leak.
4. I changed my gas lines to 1/4" ID (1/16" wall) Bev-A-Line IV tubing which I stretched around my 3/8" barbs. I used 1/4" because I wanted to use 1/4" on the other end. Was this a bad idea/source of leaks, or as long as I got it over the barb it should be OK?
Thanks for any advice!
1. Is it possible to over-tighten worm drive clamps? I tighten the bejeezus out of them and it still seems to be a crap shoot for me whether or not I will have leaks.
2. Has anyone tried those heat-shrink permanent plastic hose clamps? Gates PowerGrip, they're called.
3. I'm in the process of redoing all of my lines with Colder APC disconnects, just to make it easier to swap out lines and move things around. Anyone have experience with these? When using them with gas, can they leak? They work great with liquid (it would be obvious if there was a liquid leak) but I can't rule them out as a leak source - lost all my CO2 recently to a slow leak.
4. I changed my gas lines to 1/4" ID (1/16" wall) Bev-A-Line IV tubing which I stretched around my 3/8" barbs. I used 1/4" because I wanted to use 1/4" on the other end. Was this a bad idea/source of leaks, or as long as I got it over the barb it should be OK?
Thanks for any advice!