<div style="color:black;font: 12pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dean,
<div>My limited experience is that if the clamps are new, and the hose is new, and one really cleans up the pipe, the tower ones will work fine. With old hose, I had leaks from the imbedded rust, etc. Again, limited to one experiment. As they say, your mileage may....</div>
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<div>John in Ferndale</div>
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From: Dean VP <deanvp@att.net><br>
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Sent: Fri, Dec 4, 2020 5:42 pm<br>
Subject: [AT] New Subject -- Tower Hose Clamps<br>
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<div dir="ltr">This is going to be humorous to some of you. This is a real nit-picky thing<br>
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<div dir="ltr">that only the “correct police” would discuss. When I took my 1935 JD B<br>
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<div dir="ltr">apart to get to the Head I had to remove the upper and lower water pipes<br>
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<div dir="ltr">that go from the Cylinder Block and Head to the Radiator. There are two<br>
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<div dir="ltr">rubber hose 2 ¾” OD sections of around 4” to 5” that have to be removed to<br>
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<div dir="ltr">get the metal pipes out. Kind of a PITA if the hoses are old. Anyway while<br>
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<div dir="ltr">removing the rubber sections that were held in place by the common used<br>
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<div dir="ltr">screw band clamps used all over the place today. So when I removed them I<br>
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<div dir="ltr">made a mental mote to myself. that when I had time to look up in the Parts<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Catalog what type of hose clamp was used in the tractor originally. I did<br>
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<div dir="ltr">know the type we use today was not right. My guess was the two wire type<br>
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<div dir="ltr">were used. Wrong. Turns out that Wittek Tower Hose Clamps were used. #40 or<br>
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<div dir="ltr">FBA 40 2 3/4” I’ve run into these a few times when parting out a tractor<br>
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<div dir="ltr">and found them next to impossible to work with. I/H used them as well in<br>
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<div dir="ltr">this era. One can still get these from Steiner Tractor Parts:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">or<br>
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<div dir="ltr">So what hose clamp am I going to use when I put the 1935 B back together? I<br>
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<div dir="ltr">do know what was on it, the current SS screw band, is incorrect even to an<br>
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<div dir="ltr">casual observer. Before I learned all this I had thought about just using<br>
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<div dir="ltr">the two wire and screw setup that was used in years past as well but wasn’t<br>
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<div dir="ltr">original on the 1935B. Intuitively the Tower Hose Clamps look like they may<br>
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<div dir="ltr">be a PITA since they have limited adjustment range. So here is my<br>
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<div dir="ltr">question. I would use the Tower type if and only if they aren’t a real PITA<br>
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<div dir="ltr">to install and keep the connections from leaking. If they are, I’ll just go<br>
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<div dir="ltr">to the two wire hose clamps because I know they work well. THE QUESTION:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Anyone out there in ATIS land have experience with the Tower type hose<br>
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<div dir="ltr">clamps that would be willing to share their knowledge on the subject at<br>
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<div dir="ltr">hand. Comments and suggestions are encouraged and welcomed.<br>
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