Reel

Air Hose Reel

The Flexible Handy Air Hose Reel

The polyurethane or rubber flexible pipe and tube you use to supply compressed gas to activate a pneumatic tool need an air hose reel to protect it from possible cuts, scrapes, and abrasions. Apart from this protection, it also helps keep your garage or shop floor free from crisscrossing pipes [...]

Compressor

Air Compressor Hose

High Pressure Air Compressor Hose

Where there is a need for pressurized gas you are likely find an air compressor hose. This is necessary in order to deliver the gas from the machine pumping it to where it is needed. This could be to a surface-supplied deep sea diver, pneumatic tools such as nail and staple [...]

Retractable

Retractable Air Hose

The Convenience of a Retractable Air Hose

Before the advent of the retractable air hose, garages and shops that operate several air compressors for their various pneumatic tools used to have a floor covered with intersecting and sometimes intertwining flexible tubes. Thanks to the wheel-like reels around which the tubes are either automatically or manually wound, [...]

Polyurethane

Polyurethane Air Hose

The Light Polyurethane Air Hose Works

A polyurethane air hose is generally lighter than one made of synthetic rubber or even polyvinyl chloride (PVC). It is highly resilient, flexible, and resistant to abrasions, snags, and kinks allowing it to perform well under a variety of harsh conditions. It also resists oil and other chemicals.
Generally, flexible tubes [...]

Rubber

Rubber Air Hose

Added Strength with a Rubber Air Hose

In spite of the availability of new raw materials for the assembly of gas tubes and pipes such as polyvinyl chloride and polyurethane, a rubber air hose is still very much favored among those who operate pneumatic tools. It could be made either of natural or synthetic material.
These tubes [...]

Connectors

Air Hose Connectors

The Common Use of Air Hose Connectors

Air hose connectors, as the name implies, are small gadgets or devices that allow a flexible tube or pipe to be linked with compressors on one end of the tube, as well as with other devices that facilitate the delivery of compressed gas on its opposite end. This end [...]

Couplers

Air Hose Couplers

Basic Design of Air Hose Couplers

Air hose couplers are short pipes or tubes, about two inches long, whose basic function is to link two other pipes or tubes in order to attain a longer reach. The outside diameter of the latter two tubes matches the inner diameter of the former, thus minimizing if not eliminating [...]

Goodyear

Goodyear Air Hose

The Quality Goodyear Air Hose is a Favorite

It would seem inevitable that the company that built its reputation on its excellent tires would venture into the production of the Goodyear air hose as these involve the use of rubber, both natural and synthetic. Today, the company offers a long list of models of their flexible [...]

 





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Workforce Series Retractable Air Hose Reel

Workforce Series Retractable Air Hose Reel

A clean and orderly work area does not only make your garage or shop look professional but also helps speed up work, prevent accidents, and prolong the service life of your equipment. For one thing, if your tools are well organized and are stored in their proper places, you won’t have to spend time looking [...]

Goodyear F5 Air Hose

Goodyear F5 Air Hose

With improved flexibility, lighter weight, all-weather performance, and heightened durability, the Goodyear F5 Air Hose is an excellent choice for manufacturing, construction, general industries, and of course for home projects.
The tube is constructed out of a groundbreaking hybrid blue flexible thermoplastic elastomer (TPE). The cover is also of the same material except for its [...]

Air Compressor Hose Fittings

Air Compressor Hose Fittings

Air compressor hoses are meant to deliver pressurized air from an air compressor to a pneumatic or air tool such as nail guns, impact wrenches, air grinders and sanders, and paint sprayers. The hoses, on their own, however, cannot connect the tools to the compressor without the hose fittings.
The fittings are installed at the ends [...]

Acme Automotive 750FD25 Flexeel Polyurethane Air Hose

 Acme Automotive 750FD25 Flexeel Polyurethane Air Hose

One of the advantages of polyurethane air hoses over their rubber counterparts is that they are lighter and more compact. This is true with the Acme Automotive 750FD25 Flexeel Polyurethane Air Hose. Although very light, it is tough as it has a reinforced construction that prevents the separation of its various layers that could be [...]

High Pressure Air Hose Materials


An air hose is a tool that conveys layers of gasses from one source to any desired point or terminus. The delivery of such gasses could either be assisted by a compressor or simply rely on atmospheric pressure. When a compressor is used, the volume of the gas is constricted thereby increasing its pressure. Such an increase allows the gas to pass quickly through narrow passages within pipes. In the case of the latter, gas flows more slowly from the open end of the tube to the delivery point. Suction from the end point may be necessary to induce the flow of the gas.

Different materials may be used in the manufacture of an air hose. Among the more common is polyurethane. Polyurethane, abbreviated PU, is a polymer that consists of organic units joined by urethane links. These can be made into flexible and highly resilient tubes that are lightweight and abrasion resistant. These can be operated up to 40°F without any loss of its flexibility.

Rubber is also commonly used. Like the polyurethanes rubber is also flexible and abrasion resistant. However, rubber is able to handle higher temperatures, even up to 200°F, and pressure of up to 300 psi. These types are usually attached to compressors that supply power to nail guns, staplers, and pneumatic wrenches.

Polyvinyl chloride or PVC is also a popular material for an air hose. It is a thermoplastic polymer used in a huge variety of applications. With the addition of plasticizers PVC is rendered flexible yet durable. PVC tubes designed to withstand pressures reaching up to 145 psi are usually constructed with several plies. The outer and inner layers of the tubes could be made of PVC with a reinforced ply and a bond ply in between. These help in holding down pressurized gas.