Heating Conduit -tips needed

[davel]

I decided to investigate why my warm air cabin heater wasn't heating the cabin whilst my cockpit locker was getting too hot to sit on!

As expected, I found that the heating conduit had become dislodged and was no longer mating with its connector. Reconnecting should have been easy but wasn't! The conduit is about 8cm diameter and made of plastic reinforced with that coiled steel arrangement. Trying to push this stuff back onto the connector was a real struggle, not helped by difficult access. Despite lubricating it with washing up liquid, I've been unable to get more than about 1 cm of conduit onto the connector. I've clamped this in place with a jubilee clip but I know it's not that secure and it's only a matter of time before it falls off again.

So..... any tips for getting this stuff onto the connector?

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[Gordonmc]

Are you talking a bout a connector to another piece of conduit or the flange of an outlet? If the latter, unscrew the outlet, pull the conduit through, fix on, then refit the outlet.
Apologies if I have the wrong end of the stick (or conduit).

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[davel]

Conduit runs from the heater to a Y connector located in the cockpit locker. From there, two feeds are run, one to the saloon and one to the aft cabin. The primary feed to the Y connector is the one that became dislodged. Location doesn't help but I suspect I'd have almost as much trouble even if I had good access. The problem is caused by the spiral wire embedded in the conduit in order to give rigidity - makes it very difficult to push onto the Y connector.

<hr width=100% size=1>Dave L.