Customer Reviews

JET JW1025 2-Inch Band Hose Clamp

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Under the "Technical Details" section it states "5 - Pack". I don't know what this means, I thought I was buying 5 clamps but was disappointed when I only received one. As for the product it's just a standard hose clamp as advertised.

The manufacture's review should state: "designed to fit SMOOTH piping to...." not just "designed to fit piping to ...". Very tough application when to comes to seating a ribbed hose and the compression needed to secure that surface to a fitting.

The steel band clamp should only be used in one type of application. That being where you are putting two SMOOTH surfaces together, like a garden hose or radiator hose. But with a DC application of a ribbed hose, the steel band clamp is NOT the preferred choice, use the wire clamp.
The steel band clamp will only strip and never be fully seated trying to compress and secure the wire rib to the smooth DC fitting. The steel banding and worm screw is not designed to do that task and provide the needed pressure to fully seat the ribbed hose. Whereas, the wire clamp will actually strattle the rib on both sides and create a perfect clamping fit.

I tried to save the twenty cents over the wire clamp, and wound up stripping the clamp thread on about 50% of the applications with the steel band clamps. I antied up and spent the extra cash and got the right product, the wire clamps for the ribbed DC hose.

I found this hose clamp to be the perfect accessory to get my ... order over the magic ...free shipping barrier. It is likely I will find a use for it over time so it is a valuable addition to my emergency repair kit I keep in the garage.

If you're in the market for a good quality hose clamp at a good price, look no further. I have used this clamp for almost a year now and it has performed above and beyond my wildest expectations. When I'm not clamping large hoses with this clamp, I use it as a paperweight to hold my important papers on a picnic table on a windy day. The only problem is that I keep on misplacing my screwdriver, making it hard to me to loosen the clamp to put it on a different hose. I like to change hose clamps every 3 months or 45 miles, whichever comes first, on my wooden-horse car. And no, not as big as the one in the mythology books, but just big enough to get me to work and back (clamp salesman with Clamps-R-Us).