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I don't know about the rest of you but I woudn't hang anything in the bathroom and expect it to dry.

Bathrooms are the most moist place in the house. Good reason not to keep medicines in the "medicine cabinet" too.

I hang mine in the clothes closet on a hanger. During the winter seems to be the only time I use my humidifier anyway, and that is the time here in the northeast that the house gets rather dry in the first place.

My hose seems to dry fine in the extra day it hangs there. But I also don't run a house humidifer so that may help.

After tryng to air dry my hose(still wet after 1 week),I just hooked it up to my spare cpap and ran it for 2 hrs.Works very well.

I wonder if one of those micro-fibre clothes would work? They are lint free.

Lynne

I just use my old old cpap to blow it dry...leaving the mask attached to the hose. Never rinse anything, just keep it dry every day.

Still looking for a single reason to dry a hose.
The problem of something growing is virtually nil.
The hose has ridges in it and any cloth passing through it would unlikely pick up the water in the valley anyway.

I wash my equipment perhaps every 4-6 MONTHS and fail to see a reason to obsessively clean it every day or even week.


But I am not all than anal anyway.

OwlCreekObserver wrote:Actually, I've been thinking about rigging up a way to use my wife's hair dryer to force warm air through the hose. I'm guessing that it wouldn't take more than about five or ten minutes of warm, fast moving air to get rid of most of the moisture.

OCO,

I had the same thought. The "hang the hose over the shower rod" routine wasn't working for me due to the local humidity (easily would sit a week and still have water droplets in it). Not being sure how stats are calculated on my S8, I didn't want to use my CPAP as a dryer. I purchased a new hair dryer with a round shaped outlet. Next I went to Home Depot and spent about $5 on a Fernco coupling (this one was meant to "couple" two pieces of 1 1/2 pipe) and a couple pieces of PVC to step it down in size. I then bought a CPAP tubing coupler which fits nicely in the end of the "stepped down" PVC.

This contraption slips nicely over the hair dryer,and it takes roughly ten to fifteen minutes to dry a tube. You can probably dry it even quicker, but I run the dryer, feeling the heat (dryer set on low) in the tube with my hand. Once the tubing starts heating up, I shut the dryer down and allow the tubing to cool. I can do this while watching TV, so its not like its a major hassle.

Anal? Definitely. Overkill? Certainly. But, as the Beatles said, whatever gets you through the night.

Well, first, I take the smart card out of my cpap so it doesn't record any type of hose drying behaviors (Wouldn't want anyone to know about that) Then I turn it on (the cpap) for 5 or 10 and it seems to be dry.
The rest of the moisture simply evaporates during use as I now have my humidity on low anyway. No rainout! Don't forget to put the smart card back in if so equipped. Stormin

Why all the concern about a few remaining droplets of water after washing hose ? Aren't most of us turning on the humidifier which causes moisture anyway? just wondering.
Hurricane

Hurricane, you must be careful in asking rational and cogent questions.

These will be ignored and more answers on how to dry a hose will continue without ever wondering or questioning why they would want to dry the hose in the first place.

I have asked twice for a single cogent reason to dry the hose and the next posting is another way to dry the hose.
I think OSA reduces many peoples reasoning anc critical thinking powers.

Same thing happens when the question of diseases being spread from the water in the tank. It does not happen, but some will beat this dead horse with similar rhetoric.

There is a function on the S8 called "mask test." The machine blows air through the hose and the machine tests for proper mask fit, based on the normal leakage rate. I use this function to dry my hose. I wash out the hose first, put it on the machine and activate the mask test. By the time I have finished washing and drying all the other parts, the hose is dry on the inside. Of course, the mask test "fails," but that does change any of my efficacy numbers. Also, the mask test does not activate the humidifier.

TomJax you are so right.

tomjax wrote:Hurricane, you must be careful in asking rational and cogent questions.
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I have asked twice for a single cogent reason to dry the hose and the next posting is another way to dry the hose.
I think OSA reduces many peoples reasoning anc critical thinking powers.
[....]

It also apparently reduces one's ability to write in a courteous and civil manner.

How's that for rational and cogent?

Owlcreek atates:
It also apparently reduces one's ability to write in a courteous and civil manner.
How's that for rational and cogent?

Your statement is neither rational or cogent, owl.

I posted a challenge to the premise of some statements, which was implied that a hose needed to be cleaned and asked the best way to do this.

The assumption was that it was rational to clean it without first determining this.

I do not think i was discourteous or uncivil in the least. Simply stating facts and asking for reasons.

Bet a cleaning solution will be upcoming.
Still waiting for a reason to dry it.

tomjax wrote:Still looking for a single reason to dry a hose.
The problem of something growing is virtually nil.
The hose has ridges in it and any cloth passing through it would unlikely pick up the water in the valley anyway.

I wash my equipment perhaps every 4-6 MONTHS and fail to see a reason to obsessively clean it every day or even week.


But I am not all than anal anyway.

DITTO!

I'm still looking for a single reason to WASH a hose. (haven't cleaned mine YET)
With passover humidifier and almost non-existent humidity where I live, my hose is probably dry (if it even had any moisture in it to begin with) within a couple of seconds after I take my mask off in the morning.

"Whatever doesn't kill ya simply makes you stronger."

Den - Unashamedly stealing/borrowing Chuck's phrase.