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Thanks everybody, hopefully it's works out well 
$5, 5 minute bcd flush hose build.
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So that means I can just thread a garden hose right into my tank for a post dive wash, right?
Yep, idea is you hook it to your garden hose, clip it into the inflator and rinse and flush the inflator and the bladder.
Yep, idea is you hook it to your garden hose, clip it into the inflator and rinse and flush the inflator and the bladder
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An adapter would be nice, hose thread on 1 side and lph on the other, just screw them together and you're in business. No metal lathe in my garage...
If you end up making them, make sure you cut me in as a partner before you go on shark tank!
Check your area... I belong to the "Gainesville Hacker Space" which is a part of the maker movement. I have access to 3d printers, MIG/TIG/Arc welders, plasma cutters, even more wood tools, electronics and a lot of people who know to work the machines that I don't know how to work. I love it.
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Cool. Great job. Thankfully my Zeagle wing has a built in adapter on the corrogated hose. Unscrew the inlator thing and screw in a garden hose. Quite interesting but not as much fun as your DIY
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ScubaBoard "Best Post of the Day" winner,,,Nice writeup Nathan !!
So that means I can just thread a garden hose right into my tank for a post dive wash, right?
Sorry bad joke, I guess. I was poking @The Chairman for fun.
Actually, It is a great how-to, Nathan. If I come across a used BC hose for cheap, I'll give one a whirl myself!
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If the hole was drilled to the proper size the silicon should not be necessary because the o-ring on the lp hose should seal against the cap. Though not perfectly because it is the wrong application for a o-ring.
That said one could just use a flat washer, which you will need anyways to seal the against the hose bib. A normal garden hose washer is 5/8" ID x 1" OD x 1/8" thick but here a 3/8" ID x 1" OD x 1/8" thick rubber washer would work. If you can not find one, make one from a scrap piece of 3mm neoprene.
With either skipping the silicon mess will also let one continue to use the LP hose.
That said one could just use a flat washer, which you will need anyways to seal the against the hose bib. A normal garden hose washer is 5/8" ID x 1" OD x 1/8" thick but here a 3/8" ID x 1" OD x 1/8" thick rubber washer would work. If you can not find one, make one from a scrap piece of 3mm neoprene.
With either skipping the silicon mess will also let one continue to use the LP hose.
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