Roger,
After I wrestled (with a lot of cussing, and the application of various
lubricants for the hose and me) with sanitation hose for years, a friend
shared his recipe for this. I now heat a pot of water to a boil, and dip the
end of the hose in the water, leaving it for just a few seconds. The hose
softens enough to slide all the way on and once it cools, is there to stay
and I've never experience any degradation to the hose caused by this
procedure. You might want to experiment with different in water wait times.
MMC

"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
I'd been warned that the gray hose fittings from hardware stores are
ridiculously oversize but I didn't realize that the nylon ones from
the marine store are also until after a lot of sweating and cussing.
Even after working the hose onto a heated (gently) pipe of the same
diameter to stretch it, getting the hose on the nylon nipples was at
the limit of feasibility.

Does anyone know the genesis or rational for this crazy situation? Why
can't the nation the put a man on the moon produce hose fittings that
fit hose?

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Roger Long