Get a Grip!

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

Hose Grips, Cable Grips, Water Inlets, Drawer Slides, Water Softeners, and Filters are just a few of the products that J Wright Concepts has in stock and can ship to you wherever you are. Check out his website and look over his products. All of his products are very high quality, and I use several of them on my own bus conversion. 

His products are designed to simplify your life; many of them can be seen at RV shows around the U.S.

https://jwrightconcepts.com/

[windtrader]

Dang Gary! u one rich mofo to buy this stuff. Maybe for the old and decrepit, it's worth the cost to be able to disconnect a hose. A pair of pliers is free and just as good if you have a pair handy. Let's add senile. You forget everything including pliers so built in is a great benefit. LOL


edit - if you get kickbacks sorry to the comment. Buy 6, one for everything and a couple spares!

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

Dang Gary! u one rich mofo to buy this stuff. Maybe for the old and decrepit, it's worth the cost to be able to disconnect a hose. A pair of pliers is free and just as good if you have a pair handy. Let's add senile. You forget everything including pliers so built in is a great benefit. LOL


edit - if you get kickbacks sorry to the comment. Buy 6, one for everything and a couple spares!

I advertise for this guy who supports this website and the forum you are reading this on.  Both the website and forum are supported by our advertisers and by our subscribers and is free to all Forum members.

Every year or two, I buy 10 Hose Grips and give them as gifts to people who let me stay at their place, and for people who help me work on my bus, and other people who do me favors along the way.  I also donate a few to charity auctions at some functions I attend, and they are usually bid up over the actual cost.

Every person I give them to loves them, and many people end up buying more once they try them to have for both ends of their hoses.  They are extremely well made and seem to last forever and this guy sells a ton of them at the many RV shows he goes to around the US, as many older people like me, or people with arthritis find them very useful as they don't have to fumble with finding their channel locks every time they connect or disconnect to their water supply and then put them back in their toolbox, usually wet.   

I no longer have to carry a pair of channel locks around with me when I tighten the fittings on my hose bib, water softener, water filter, and bus connection.  To each his own. Yes, they are a bit pricy, and you can probably buy cheaper versions from China if you wish.  I don't buy much due to my limited income, and because everything I own has to fit in my bus, but when I do, I tend to buy quality American-made products whenever I can.

And one more consideration: I travel frequently in my bus and do not stay at any one location for more than a week or two at a time, sometimes up to a month on occasion.  That said, I connect and disconnect my hookups more frequently than most bus conversion owners.  For many of you, who may be like windtrader, that stay in one place for longer periods of time, granted, a Hose Grip may not be as beneficial as those of us who tend to use our buses as designed and travel from one place to another frequently seeing many different areas of the country and Mexico throughout the year. I find the Hose Grip and other accessories that Jim sells extremely beneficial.

[Sebulba]

I have one of these and love it.

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

I have one of these and love it.

Yes, once you get used to using one, you never want to give it up.  It is such a simple idea and they are a very high quality. 

[RichardEntrekin]

I have one of those. I love it because I don’t have to fetch the channelocks. It also seems to have slightly loose female threads to mate up with boogered threads on the hose bib. I have used it for about five years and we do 60 campgrounds a year.

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

I have one of those. I love it because I don’t have to fetch the channelocks. It also seems to have slightly loose female threads to mate up with boogered threads on the hose bib. I have used it for about five years and we do 60 campgrounds a year.

And the other advantage is your changelocks don't get rusty and you don't have to buy a new pair every year or two when you forget them and leave them behind.   

Besides, Hose Grips remind me of the good ole days, when products were very well made and made to last.