Skip Gundlach wrote:

Something you may end up paying for later...'cuz hose should never be
heated to make it bend tighter than it wants to bend willingly. That
stretches the outside of the radius--which can cause it to tear--and
weakens the inside of the radius, which can cause it to collapse.

Break the hose and use an inline radius fitting instead.

I'm not sure of damage - it seemed like it just made it easier to work
with in a somewhat cramped area.

You may not be for a while...it can takes weeks or months for material
that's stretch too thin to finally part company.

Inline radius fittings would actually have made the job even easier in
cramped quarters...'cuz you don't have to wrestle the hose around a
corner. Instead, you put a hose connector on each end of the hose, put a
little PVC cement on the ends the radius...hold it in place while you
just put the ends together.

The particular place was at the part of the current gallery beginning
at
http://www.justpickone.org/skip/gall...ay06&start=155

I also cut a section to go over the hose where it bore against the
grease plug for the valve under it (intake valve, one on the through
hull as well), to prevent against chafe. Would you mind looking at
that and saying whether you think that radius is too tight?

It looks ok from what I could see.

Thanks again for your assistance. I've been promoting your book over
in a bunch of sailnet lists where sort of thing comes up all the time...

Thanks!

(thus my interest in AVS/Shields 101, you'll recall - and what was the
outcome of Aussiglobe?)...

It's gone. The best hose on the market now is Trident (which I think you
meant, not Shields) 101/102. In fact, it may even be better than AVS96,
'cuz it has a biocide in the rubber compound.
--
Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/books...ku=90&cat=1304