Yellow JacketYellow Jacket 29985 Plus II 1/4" Hose with Compact Ball Valve, 60" (Pack of 3)

As an aerospace engineer working for a company that manufactured aircraft environmental control systems, I spent a lot of time working with various refrigeration equipment, mostly in lab and manufacturing settings.I had a cheap set of gauges I had purchased for personal use, and the hoses were pretty low end. A friend asked me to help with some low temp refrigeration systems and I knew that was a bad recipe, so I purchased these and they were perfect. The ball valves make it easy to control what you're doing and not end up with hoses full of liquid refrigerant. At times it would have been nice to have a little smaller valve, so I can imagine that you might want a different set for working on some equipment, but I managed on all the equipment I touched with them.The hoses themselves seemed quite robust. 100% pleased. I think if you were doing this every day you would be in good shape with these.

I am a transit bus HVAC tech and these hoses work well in my application. The ball valves work well for isolating and moving refrigerant. I replace my manifold gauge hoses every two years and these have been my choice.

Yellow jacket hoses are the way to go. Other brands such as hilmer are good as well but at the end of the day you can’t beat yellow jacket. As long as you change your seals every once in a while these hoses will give you years of use

Contacted Yellow Jacket for Warranty Repair. They refused to service their defective product. Center valve core depressor insert fell out on the red hose after two uses.------------------------------------From: Donna Borgstahl [mailto:[email protected]] . Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 11:00 AM. To: *********Subject: FW: Red Yellow Jacket 29985 Plus II 1/4" Hose with Compact Ball Valve, 60" is DefectiveANSWER:Seeing you bought it on Amazon, you will need to go back through them for help, either repair or replace the part. Seeing we only sell Distribution centers you will have to go back to them. Thank you. Donna Borgstahl. Customer Service Representative. Ritchie Engineering Co. Inc.Phone: 952-943-1333. Fax: 800-322-8684. [email protected]. [...]------------------------------ Bottom Line Don't buy Yellow Jacket Products they don't honor their warranties...---------------------------From: Yellow Jacket Customer Service [mailto:[email protected]]Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 7:31 AMTo: 'Donna Borgstahl'Subject: FW: Red Yellow Jacket 29985 Plus II 1/4" Hose with Compact Ball Valve, 60" is DefectiveFrom: *****Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 10:50 PMTo: [email protected]: Red Yellow Jacket 29985 Plus II 1/4" Hose with Compact Ball Valve, 60" is DefectiveI bought a set of Yellow Jacket 29985 Plus II 1/4" Hose with Compact Ball Valve, 60" (Pack of 3)hoses on Amazon on April 18, 2016..The center valve core depressor insert fell out on the red hose after two uses. How do I get the red hose repaired or replaced?Sincerely,****

I really like these hoses. I like them better that the schrader type low loss hoses because, when the system is close to charged. I can shut down the high side and tank valves, and dump what in the hoses in the system. If it's still a little low, I can just open them back up and add more. Without disconnecting and reconnecting the hoses. No quality issues. They are great hoses so far. I will update if they develop any premature leaks or burst.

it's great it's what you accept from yellow jacket

Good value I like this hoses will buy again

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