AN Hose / Fittings Problem

[TimD]

After watching and reading countless how-to's, it was finally time to make some of my very own custom hoses, what a palava!

Sit rep is, 5 AN8 Fittings demolished and no hoses made.

I can't see what I'm doing wrong at all, perhaps someone a little more smarter than I can shed some light on this, I'll try and walk you through the process and outcome of EVERY hose I made.

Start by cutting the line, I used a very fine cutting disk, nice and clean cut.

Next I push the hose into one end of the fitting.

Then came time to wind in the other part of the fitting, now the first line I made I bottomed out the fitting, but then read I wasn't supposed to do that, so this last time I made sure to leave some clearence.

But when I removed the fittings to check the hose, the same thing happened again. The hose had split around the top, causing the steel braid to attack the threads.

The hose came out looking like this.

Inlcuding holes.

Am I being a moron here, or what? I honestly cannot see what I'm doing wrong, £30 work fittings have so far been demolished, I don't want to break anymore.

Cheers

[russ78]

try boiling some water and put the hose end in the water for about 30 seconds or so will make the rubber hose more flexible and expand so should fit without damaging anymore fittings

[maddox710]

Its cheap fittings mate I make all my own, and only get this with cheap parts

[Azz]

Most people put a little insulation tape around the end to keep the pipe from fraying