POWERTEC 70143

Excellent item, wish I had purchased it months ago.

Perfect fit for my dust collector to all my tools such as planer and joiner. Has plenty of flex, but is also rigid enough to hold itself out of the way when positioned correctly. Also doesn’t completely collapse under a lot of pressure (when it gets clogged)

I bought this hose to use between the dust collector, a planer and some other wood working tools. It works well and stands up to shop life. I have even stepped lightly on them and been able to reform them back to shape again. The internal ribs do collect some dust, but despite the warnings on the internet, I have not noticed a performance loss in dust collection. I shake the hose every week or so to get loosed up the caught dust while the collector is running.

I ordered this hose to replace a hose that had torn inside my Jet table saw. The hose hooks up to the blade shroud to pull dust out of the table saw. The old hose was torn for awhile because when I opened the base cabinet it was full of sawdust. I tried another coil spring hose but for some reason the hose tore in another place. I think my hose clamps (universal types) poked the hose and tore it. After receiving this hose I noticed it was very stiff, but it was like an accordion and could be pulled and pushed to greater or lesser lengths. I tested the hose on my saw, which has connections for a 4 inch hose, and it went on very well. Then I tried to get my old 4 inch hose connectors onto the hose and they didn’t fit. The accordion style of the hose makes the body of the hose larger than the coil type I was using. I had to buy larger hose clamps. It is installed now and the dust collector works very well. It seems to pull more dust away from the blade area than before, but I think the old hose had been torn for a long time – maybe since I bought the saw. I have been consistently cleaning sawdust out of the cabinet area and probably never looked for a tear. Or if I did look I didn’t see it in the dusk like light conditions inside the saw cabinet. The hose’s adjustable length was a lifesaver. I tried it with the saw full up and down, and all the way over to 45 degrees and no problems. It should work well. Be aware that the hose isn’t soft and flexible like many of the see through coil and plastic types. It is somewhat stiff, although it still bends because of the accordion construction. AD2

This is totally not the intended purpose, but I can't be alone in my use of it lol. These are PERFECT for ferrets to play in. They're clear so you're able to see them, the ferrets aren't able to rip or claw through them, and the stretch makes it fun if you turn it into an obstacle course. I had been looking for a clear expandable tube option that's truly indestructible to ferrets and finally found it.

I recently bought an off brand since I wanted a 70ft length. I had purchased Powertec for all my other runs. Once the other brand 70ft arrived and had it stretched to length, it was pretty easy to feel the quality difference. Powertec feels like a heavy duty version that will stand the test of time. Now to return the other brand and look at splicing some Powertec hoses. Photo - off brand on top. Powertec on bottom

WORKS AS IT SHOULD. DOES NOT COMPRESS

Seems to be good quality hose. Flexible enough without being too flimsy.

all good

Have not actually used it yet…but I have couple of the 3”…same material….pretty tough and flexible

There is nothing to dislike. It is reliable and does the job for which I ordered it. It is attached to a DeWalt thicknesser and as you can imagine the chips that come out could make an awful mess if not for the dust extraction unit I devised and needs the 4 inch tubing to accommodate the amount of debris that is ejected by the machine that has it's own extraction fan.

Very good product

I use this to move between a few different tools and it feels very solid. Two of them with a coupler between allows much much better options than flexible tubing (you know the kind). At least this one you can keep mostly compressed until you need it all and it doesn't kill your airspeed inside of it. It also stays were you put it for the most part, so it's good at going around corners and the like (and still lets you not have hard 90s).