In article pTJ_d.4269$uw6.1778@trnddc06, "Travis"
wrote:

paghat wrote:
In article ,
Richard Cline wrote:

In article ,
Hal wrote:

I have a 3/4" rubber hose that I have been using for 22 years (I
got is used). It still is in good shape. The hose doesn't kink.
It is a little heavy but I do not find that objectionable. I am
70 years old.

Dick

Some gardening articles recommend checking the DPI on the hose to
assess its worth, but the vast majority of hoses don't state
anywhere on the hose or the packaging what the DPI might be, & if
you ask the average customer service guy or gal for the DPI info on
the hoses they sell, they'll think you're talking in Hungarian or
Chinese.

What is DPI?

Should be PSI, pounds per square inch capacity. DPI applies to Photoshop
which I was using all morning. A hose that has a high PSI number will
likely never burst under water pressure. Cheap hoses at 100 or 150 PSI
could easily burst if the fawcett was turned on all the way. So
manufactuers like to leave that information off the packaging making it
impossible to judge the strength, though we can assume if they won't
reveal it it's insufficient.

-paggers
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