Heater Hose Repair or Replace

[Chachi7565]

While doing some other maintenance and painting the cockpit floor in my RV-8A, I found that the hose going to the rear seat heater has been worn through. I'm looking for a recommendation - is there a way to patch this? If not, should I just cut out the bad section and splice in a good one? Or pull the entire hose and replace it? (Kind of a pain, but doable).

Also looking for the right part number if I do decide to replace it. I didn't have any luck identifying it in the Van's store.

Thanks!
Matt

 

[olyolson]

You should probably replace the whole thing as there may be wear in other areas. You might try these guys:

Sceet and Scat quality silicone aircraft high temp ducting

We use the best available silicone ducting and vulcanize two .020 layers of fiberglass reinforced silicone on each end of the Thermoid Aeroduct aircraft ducting

customductsaircraftsceetandscat.com

 

[TS Flightlines]

You should probably replace the whole thing as there may be wear in other areas. You might try these guys:

Sceet and Scat quality silicone aircraft high temp ducting

We use the best available silicone ducting and vulcanize two .020 layers of fiberglass reinforced silicone on each end of the Thermoid Aeroduct aircraft ducting

customductsaircraftsceetandscat.com

And any place where the scat tube rubs the airframe, isolate it or put something over it and the offending airframe part. Just be glad it was a rear seat heater hose and not a fuel hose.

 

[climberrn]

Silicone wrap is amazing for the chafing areas on scat/sceet hose. Can repair small holes, but as said before I’d replace the entire section and then use the silicone wrap for the potential wear areas. Aircraftspruce has a great selection of that.

Vans sells (or at least used to) a PVC version of that but the silicone scat is much better for several reasons.

 

[Jjackh10]

That's a duct, pretty sure there's a tape made for it.