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Am I overlooking a simple way to handle this type of air hose or is it the nature of the beast?

looks like you are doing a fine job. The last one like that bought, the salesman showed me how to stretch the hose out. He told me to go the whole length of the hole stretching it longer little by little until it was stretched out. When he did this it made a crackling popping noise.

Pic was to show hose type.

I can stretch it out and coil it fine, it just a PITA.
Twist in opposite directions to stretch out and then coil.

I had high hopes upon seeing the title......

Denied.

My hoses are rubber, Don't seem to have that problem.Even in the cold

Surprised you climbed out of the 223.

OK, I guess I'm not overlooking a simple fix.
I guess I'll just deal with it. It's a dink compressor. Good for tires. Not enough ass for tools.

Just treat it as a hard lay lariat......

Exactly.

No dally needed.

Those blue hoses sure drag thru walls and trusses nice when framing. I'll never go back to rubber for construction. Save that chit for the auto/home shop......

Coilhose Pneumatic Flexeel hoses won't coil up nice with air in them. You've got to disconnect them from the compressor or air source for them to cooperate. It drives me crazy, especially the 1/4" x100'. Like Huntsman22 said, they're light weight and a joy to drag all over a frame. There's a reason they built swivels into the factory ends. Those swivels are the weak link and IME have been the first thing to go. I just repaired one last month, cutting the crimped factory ends off and replacing with brass hose barbs secured with small,hose clamps. It's what I had on hand. I can't stand the sound of a pissing air hose or coupling, like a beaver and running water.

My complaint about the plastic hoses is when it gets cold they get pretty stiff and if you get kink in one,it cracks,you get a leak. Rubber doesn't . I don't do framing,but use my compressor around the place a lot

Flexeel hoses are extruded polyurethane. They are very light and flexible at all temperatures. Vinyl hose is probably what you're referring to by "plastic." It's best attribute is it's cheap.

Probably so. Probably what came with the compressors I bought.I took those off and replaced with rubber. Mostly because I had bought 200 feet of it at a farm auction for $10

It was alotta stairs......

and no happy ending.

All you got was a pic of my kinky hose. Bummer.



Back OT....
compressor and hose live in the garage, so not cold and stiff. Airing a tire in winter, it isn't outside long enough to get stiff.

Use the backhand or over-under method of coiling it. Here's a video that shows it with a cable. It works nicely with hoses and extension cords, too. This will keep the kinks out. Every other loop is reversed so it nullifies the twist in the previous loop.

I hate those curly hoses. If you need to set the nozzle down to do something, you have to chase it across the floor.