How to Make Your Own Hose Clamps

More often than not I make my own hose clamps. Mostly because I found a tool a few years ago that just does so much of a better job than the screw gear hose clamps from the hardware store. I was given a ClampTite wire tool and a roll of stainless safety wire as a gift and had no idea what it was. It lingered in a junk drawer, still in the original packaging for a couple of years. Fast Forward a bit and I needed to connect some water pump hose RIGHT THEN, didn’t have a clamp, and remembered the weird thing in the drawer. This was before KZbin, so I had to read the paper instructions. The little thing worked like a charm!
I found uses for it all over the place: poly hose, garden hose, reinforcing my file handles, fuel line on my then truck, a camp stove, capturing hooks on bungee cords, etc. I kept it in the truck because it seemed that I used it like once month. A couple of years ago, I dropped it into the depths of Lake Union in Seattle while doing something crafty with it. I missed that tool very much. A few months later, I was at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival and there was a dealer there (AKcooltools.com) selling the stainless marine version (my original was aluminum). I told them how much I loved their tool and bought another one from them at the retail show price and I have used the bejesus out of it.
Just for clarification, I am not getting any sort of deal or kickback from AKcooltools or ClampTite or anyone else for this or future planned purchases. I have no financial incentive for make a video about this product. I am just telling folks about something I found that was useful, a quality tool that saves me time, and a seller that was really nice to me and answered all my questions thoroughly.
I am not the only one who has found the ClampTite to be awesome, there are folks on KZbin who use this tool/system on cars, boats, on tool handles, in roadside emergency kits, experimental light aircraft, hotrods, for crafts, fishing, hunting, off-roading, on the farm, etc… for both temporary and permanent fixes. Take a look at the links I put below and you will see other converts.
I am picking up another one of the aluminum versions for the Jeep and I would also like the heavy duty 10” model that handles 1/8” wire for a couple of large projects that I have planned for winter - saving my pennies.
Sources:
akcooltools.com...
www.garrettwad...
clamptitetools...
Safety Wire:
www.amazon.com...
www.harborfrei...
www.garrettwad...
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[@nitanice]

Had a staff of 15 once, and had every computer screw up they made left up to me to fix. I'd fix it, and they'd look amazed that I was so smart. And every single time I'd say, "ask me how I know that."

[@rustyneedles3743]

It's not cheap? you bought this? it literally took me 45 minutes to make from scrap metal ... 🤣🤣 and yet you're "Matt of Many Trades" you sure about that?

[@rustyneedles3743]

this has to be one of the worst tool demonstrations I've ever seen 🤣🤣 like, what is this? were you going for the "stop motion" effect? lmfao ... I'm almost certain you're supposed to show the tool being used, not skip through to different points of the progress 🤣🤣 ffs ... I think I know now why you bought the tool

[@leonruvalcaba1549]

I love the many DIY versions of this tool. Its much cheaper and better. ClampTits is way too expensive

[@stevem3918]

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[@raynight562]

"Ask me how I know that" Matt of Many Trades Great quote 😄

[@MattofManyTrades]

I have learn so much fro screwing up😁

[@cbrrebates]

My dad always uses wire as hose clamps.

[@jedics1]

The only major flaw to this system is if you need to do the fitting in place, you need a lot of room to apply this, they need to make the tool much shorter. You also wont waste so much wire...

[@wiwatpin]

This topic is how to manipulate the hose clamp.