uses for old cpap hoses???

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odawa
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Post by odawa » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:13 am

oops it didnt sign me in. You could connect a few hoses and run them from the kitchen sink to the plants and water your plants without leaving the kitchen. or you you could fill the dog's water dish.
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Post by odawa » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:14 am

you could use the hoses to protect a laptop in the bag!!! Wrap the computer, then use some duct tape to keep it from wiggling free.
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Post by odawa » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:15 am

you could get a few hoses together, and hang them from the tree. You could then play Tarzan. I think swinging from the trees would be a blast.
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Post by Goofproof » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:41 am

One of the problems, the new hoses aren't the quality of the OEM parts. Lincare sends me, (Targa) or a name close, it's a half weight throwaway. Jim
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Re: New hoses

Post by Wulfman » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:50 pm

Arizona-Willie wrote:I tell my DME < every > time that I do NOT need or want a new hose nor do I want a new shell for the hybrid ( or other mask ) ... only the cushion and nose gizmos.

Package comes and there is a new hose and a new shell and new cushions and new nose gizmos.

Complete package every time no matter what I order.

Medicare pays so they don't give a damn what I want or need.

I've been thinking of going back to lab and getting new copy of prescription and ordering from cpap and dropping the brick and mortar DME locally.
Willie,

Your comment came to my mind when I read this article in the HME News website.

http://www.hmenews.com/index.php?p=arti ... 0710Fi370b

Are YOU paying your co-pay?.....or "stiffing" them like apparently many others do?
(just kiddin'.....don't really want to know about YOUR co-pays)

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Post by Guest » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:52 pm

ok so we wrap the hose with duct tape before you swing from the trees with it. Works for me!! Can you tell I like duct tape? If it doesnt move and it should - use WD-40 If it moves and it shouldn't - use duct tape.


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Post by odawa » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:53 pm

ok that was me again. I have the biggest probs w/ the signing in
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Post by SisterShotgun » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:40 pm

[quote="Anonymous"]ok so we wrap the hose with duct tape before you swing from the trees with it. Works for me!! Can you tell I like duct tape? If it doesnt move and it should - use WD-40 If it moves and it shouldn't - use duct tape.


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Post by odawa » Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:20 pm

wow and its stronger than duct tape?
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Post by RosemaryB » Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:53 pm

1. Make hamster runs out of them. Those hamsters could run all over the house in the hoses once you get enough hoses duct taped together. Just make sure they are small hamsters.

2. Start duct taping them together and use them as water hoses in your garden. Your watering could go faster, but you'd need an adapter at the spigot.

Many Halloween costume possibilities, too.

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Post by Goofproof » Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:53 pm

In Nam, we called it Ammo tape, used it to tape Ammo Mag's together, and if the wheel fell off a jeep, we taped them on too. Jim
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Post by SisterShotgun » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:33 pm

odawa wrote:wow and its stronger than duct tape?
It is called 400 mph tape because it can be placed on a Naval jet to hold something in place at 400 mph Sure hope they don't use it to hold wings on

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Post by SisterShotgun » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:34 pm

Goofproof wrote:In Nam, we called it Ammo tape, used it to tape Ammo Mag's together, and if the wheel fell off a jeep, we taped them on too. Jim
I sometimes use it to tape my children to the walls Kidding..

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Post by sleepycarol » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:39 pm

Send some this way!! I have never heard of it. In my toolbox if duct tape can't fix it it ain't worth fixin!
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Post by odawa » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:24 pm

and duct tape comes in decorator colors. Does the mph400 come in colors?
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