ap4098 wrote: > --- In [email protected], Andrew J Instone-Cowie <and...@...> wrote: >> Does anyone know whether there is a hose clip on the market a bit like a >> Jubilee clip, but where the do-er upper turns parallel to the axis of >> the pipe being clipped, rather than at normal Jubilee-like right angles >> to it? > > Yes, they are nasty tinny things and they used to be used during > factory assembly of cars. A thin metal strip goes around the hose and > nits tail is pushed into the split between the legs of a split pin. > The other end is bent around a thin pressed metal "split pin > carrier". When you twist the pin the strip wraps around it tightening > it onto the hose. Honestly you do not want one and I have no idea > where you would get one without trudging round loads of traditional > scrap yards. What about one of those "spring steel" clips where you > squeeze a pair of extended legs together to open up the spring clip > and slide it over the pipe?
Thanks Tony, sounds like I don't want one! It's to fasten the kitchen sink waste hose to the new skin fitting hose tail (the old plastic fitting having split). The connection is in a narrow void between the back of the kitchen cupboard and the hull lining, to which the only access currently is the hole through with the hose passes. I've had to take the sink out to get at it at all, and that was a nightmare, so I think I'm going to cut a proper access trap in the back of the cupboard. Lost count of the number of times I've muttered "Never put anything where you can't get at it" in the direction of the chap who fitted the boat out! Andrew
