2-1/2 Inch Flexible Dust Collection Hose 70198

It has a memory, Otherwise fine.

This 2.5 inch dust collection hose is a great option for connecting tools to a shop vac or dust separator. It’s flexible enough to route around your setup without kinking too much, and the fittings help create a solid connection to reduce air leaks. I use a setup like this around my workbench for tools like my table saw and sander, and it makes a noticeable difference in keeping dust under control. It’s not meant for full size dust collection systems, but for a typical home shop, it works very well.

This tubing is flexible enough to shape however you want to position it and mostly stays put. And then you can collapse it and it's out of the way! Far better than th complicated rigid PVC attachment I improvised years ago. Simple is good!

Nice product it did not fit my needs .returning.

My dust collector has a huge hose, which is bulky. The way I used it is to hook it up to one of my machines while I’m using it, and if I switched to another machine, I remove it from the first machine and plug it into the port on the second machine. This was a huge pain, but after I put an adapter on in downsized to this hose, it was much easier to deal with. I have extra length to play around with, and it’s already a smaller hose, which is closer to fitting all of my saws, sanders routers and planers. The quality of the hose seems to be pretty heavy duty, but not so heavy that it’s giving up any flexibility. If I ever get to the point where I start splitting my dust collector and leaving it hooked up, I might buy one or two more of these.

My router table is connected to my table saw and I wanted a hose to go from the dust collection box under the router lift and the router fence. Because it is connected to my table saw I wanted to be able to move things out of the way with little clutter. This hose is everything that it is described to be. It fits over 2.5 inch ports on both the collection box and the router fence well, at least when it is stretched out, otherwise it is a little too rigid.. It is exactly 2.5 inches. It is exactly 39 inches long. The most desired feature for me is that it can be compressed out of the way. But in the end, it just didn't work for me. Because it is rigid and holds it shape, it does not bend around corners so well. Going around the saw table means that part of the hose needs to be compressed. So the 39 inch length is on the outside of the bend. I needed about four more inches to make it work. Too bad. But this is really not the fault of the hose. My only concern is that it extends by flexing a spiral joint around the hose. I don't know how many flexes this joint can make without a failure (like stress hardening).

This type of hose works great for stuff like a planer. Mine has the exhaust port directly above the outfield. Standard hoses will fall into the out feed. This rigid yet flexible hose is perfect. I run it from the planer to the separator, and it holds itself in position. Without this stuff, i'd have to rig some sort of gantry to hold up the hose (my shop is very very small, so I do my planing outdoors). Someone makes fittings the screw right into this hose. They have reverse thread which holds the fitting to the hose without needing clamps. I forget who makes them, but they work perfectly with this hose. I really like this style of hose. It doesn't take a lot of storage space (about a foot long when collapsed). A will hold itself out straight when positioned horizontally up to two or three feet. For under ten bucks (current list price), you can't go wrong.

You can extend this tube and bend it. It will not collapse and stays how you set it. It can collapse back for storage. In one end of mine the wire end sticks out a little but it never got worse. Heavy duty and does what it says. Measure so that you are matching the outlet hole so slip this over.