Miflex Hoses

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Has anyone tried Miflex LP hose? if so what opinion?

[K Mejean]

I have them on my open water rig. They are very flexible which is nice but they are a little abrasive if they rub against your skin.

[DA Aquamaster]

As noted above they are a bit abrasive. Using a standard long hose configuration I had a very raw patch on the back of my neck after a week long live aboard trip of warm water diving, so if you use one in a long hose configuration a hood is almost a neccessity. Over time, they also get a bit prickly as some of the threads in the casing break and then stick up.

They are torsionally rigid and while they are workable in a back mount configuration, they don't lay down well against the tank in a side mount configuration.

If interested I have a couple 7 footers for sale cheap.

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How much?

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Do they eat up your hood?

[Red Hat Jef]

I'm generally not a fan of these. I have a 7' hose I started with for my cavern rig and then later doubles rig. As Aquamaster says, they're workable, but even in backmount, they don't wrap around my body and stay streamlined. I switched it out for a normal rubber hose, which lays flat and also happens to be cheaper.

I've had slightly better luck with the shorter hoses for sidemount/stage rigs. I don't use left/right regulators (or unidirectional like poseidon) so the hose for one reg always has to bend back towards the tank. The miflex hose is rather nice for this application, but honestly a swivel or angle adaptor might work just as well.

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I have always heard that swivel/ 90's etc are serious fail points

[mdax]

I hate every single miflex hose i've ever purchased.
When i see their scratchy, leaking corpses in my dive room i hiss at them...sometimes i may whip them onto things while yelling at them but i keep that to myself mostly.

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Ok thank you all..... losing interest that's why I love this forum

[Sludge]

I have always heard that swivel/ 90's etc are serious fail points

Swivels can be. 90s aren't.