Date:         Sun, 8 Jun 2014 16:48:43 -0700
Reply-To:     Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: OEM Westy hose with blue stripe?
In-Reply-To:  <20140608170134.POWEL.308048.imail@eastrmwml304>
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If you are a purist you should use an NSF certified "potable water" hose, available from marine and RV stores.  They usually are white or translucent, sometimes with a blue stripe. Sounds like you have two of them.

Stuart

---- JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
> In a message dated 6/8/2014 3:05:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
> I'm  talking about the one that runs from a spigot to the city water inlet.
>  Is there one that came with the van or did the PO just have some 
> random garden center hose stored under the back seat?  Anyway, at one 
> point that one migrated out of the camper and into the garage (not my 
> fault--talk to the gardener).  Not wanting to let the Westy stuff get 
> lost or separated I decided to put it back where it belongs but 
> discovered we have two white-with-blue-stripe garden hoses, so which 
> is the Westy one?  One is  opaque white with three longitudinal blue 
> stripes, evenly spaced around the  hose from another, and the other is 

> translucent with a single blue stripe and  the crisscross reinforcing 
> weave visible.  Have not found a precise  description online at vendors' sites or in  forums.