Date:         Mon, 30 May 2011 11:13:57 -0700
Reply-To:     Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
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From:         Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
Subject:      Re: Hose clamps
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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Go to Home Depot and look at their selection of male plugs in the plumbing/irrigation department.  Bring along your old hose to check fit.

Sent from my electronic umbilicus

Karl Wolz

On May 30, 2011, at 10:27 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

> At 09:57 PM 5/29/2011, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>> Found I needed to wrap the bolts with a buttload of TFE tape to create a
>> decent seal. Jury-rigged, would like better solution to plugging unused
>> coolant hoses that formerly went to auto trans ATF cooler.
> 
> Try a piece of hardwood dowel.  Put two or three small pan-head
> screws around the perimeter so it can't crawl back out past the clamp
> - this fitting needs an internal lip just as much as any of the other
> hose fittings in the system.
> 
> If it's the right size, copper plumbing with the end capped or
> crimped and soldered, and a wire soldered around the inner end for a lip.
> 
> If you know someone with a lathe, turn a piece of Corian or whatever.
> 
> Get a properly sized bolt long enough to have a smooth section.  Cut
> off the threaded part and solder a wire around the end for a lip (the
> steel will have to be very very clean, freshly sanded and tinned beforehand).
> 
> Yrs,
> d
>