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Subject:Re: OEM Westy hose with blue stripe?
From:Stephen Grisanti
Date:Mon, 9 Jun 2014 05:48:58 -0700

Thanks, I'll put the least garden-y one back in the camper.

Stephen 

On Sunday, June 8, 2014 7:49 PM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
  

If you are a purist you should use an NSF certified "potable water" hose, available from marine and RV stores.� They usually are white or translucent, sometimes with a blue stripe. Sounds like you have two of them.

Stuart

---- JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
> In a message dated 6/8/2014 3:05:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
> I'm� talking about the one that runs from a spigot to the city water inlet.
>� Is there one that came with the van or did the PO just have some 
> random garden center hose stored under the back seat?� Anyway, at one 
> point that one migrated out of the camper and into the garage (not my 
> fault--talk to the gardener).� Not wanting to let the Westy stuff get 
> lost or separated I decided to put it back where it belongs but 
> discovered we have two white-with-blue-stripe garden hoses, so which 
> is the Westy one?� One is� opaque white with three longitudinal blue 
> stripes, evenly spaced around the� hose from another, and the other is 
> translucent with a single blue stripe and� the crisscross reinforcing 
> weave visible.� Have not found a precise� description online at vendors' sites or in� forums.