One of two new round rubber soaker hoses arrived with a slight crimp, enough to suggest it would crumble at an inopportune moment. Rather than return the hose for something that’s not an obvious failure, I clamped the crimp:

Unlike the clamps for the punctured flat soaker hoses, this one doesn’t need to withstand much pressure and hold back a major leak, so I made the pieces a bit thicker and dispensed with the aluminum backing plates:

The solid model is basically the same as for the flat hoses, with a slightly oval cylinder replacing the three channels:

The OpenSCAD source code as a GitHub Gist:
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// Rubber Soaker Hose Splice | |
// Ed Nisley KE4ZNU 2020-03 | |
Layout = "Build"; // [Hose,Block,Show,Build] | |
TestFit = false; // true to build test fit slice from center | |
//- Extrusion parameters must match reality! | |
/* [Hidden] */ | |
ThreadThick = 0.25; | |
ThreadWidth = 0.40; | |
HoleWindage = 0.2; | |
Protrusion = 0.1; // make holes end cleanly | |
inch = 25.4; | |
function IntegerMultiple(Size,Unit) = Unit * ceil(Size / Unit); | |
ID = 0; | |
OD = 1; | |
LENGTH = 2; | |
//---------- | |
// Dimensions | |
// Hose lies along X axis | |
Hose = [200,14.5,13.6]; // X = longer than anything else | |
// 8-32 stainless screws | |
Screw = [4.1,8.0,3.0]; // OD = head LENGTH = head thickness | |
Washer = [4.4,9.5,1.0]; | |
Nut = [4.1,9.7,6.0]; | |
Block = [50.0,Hose.y + 2*Washer[OD],4.0 + 1.5*Hose.z]; // overall splice block size | |
echo(str("Block: ",Block)); | |
Kerf = 1.0; // cut through middle to apply compression | |
CornerRadius = Washer[OD]/2; | |
NumScrews = 3; // screws along each side of cable | |
ScrewOC = [(Block.x - 2*CornerRadius) / (NumScrews - 1), | |
Block.y - 2*CornerRadius, | |
2*Block.z // ensure complete holes | |
]; | |
echo(str("Screw OC: x=",ScrewOC.x," y=",ScrewOC.y)); | |
//---------------------- | |
// Useful routines | |
module PolyCyl(Dia,Height,ForceSides=0) { // based on nophead's polyholes | |
Sides = (ForceSides != 0) ? ForceSides : (ceil(Dia) + 2); | |
FixDia = Dia / cos(180/Sides); | |
cylinder(d=(FixDia + HoleWindage),h=Height,$fn=Sides); | |
} | |
// Hose shape | |
// This includes magic numbers measured from reality | |
module HoseProfile() { | |
NumSides = 12*4; | |
rotate([0,-90,0]) | |
translate([0,0,-Hose.x/2]) | |
resize([Hose.z,Hose.y,0]) | |
cylinder(d=Hose.z,h=Hose.x,$fn=NumSides); | |
} | |
// Outside shape of splice Block | |
// Z centered on hose rim circles, not overall thickness through center ridge | |
module SpliceBlock() { | |
difference() { | |
hull() | |
for (i=[-1,1], j=[-1,1]) // rounded block | |
translate([i*(Block.x/2 - CornerRadius),j*(Block.y/2 - CornerRadius),-Block.z/2]) | |
cylinder(r=CornerRadius,h=Block.z,$fn=4*8); | |
for (i = [0:NumScrews - 1], j=[-1,1]) // screw holes | |
translate([-(Block.x/2 - CornerRadius) + i*ScrewOC.x, | |
j*ScrewOC.y/2, | |
-(Block.z/2 + Protrusion)]) | |
PolyCyl(Screw[ID],Block.z + 2*Protrusion,6); | |
cube([2*Block.x,2*Block.y,Kerf],center=true); // slice through center | |
} | |
} | |
// Splice block less hose | |
module ShapedBlock() { | |
difference() { | |
SpliceBlock(); | |
HoseProfile(); | |
} | |
} | |
//---------- | |
// Build them | |
if (Layout == "Hose") | |
HoseProfile(); | |
if (Layout == "Block") | |
SpliceBlock(); | |
if (Layout == "Show") { | |
difference() { | |
SpliceBlock(); | |
HoseProfile(); | |
} | |
color("Green",0.25) | |
HoseProfile(); | |
} | |
if (Layout == "Build") { | |
SliceOffset = TestFit && !NumScrews%2 ? ScrewOC.x/2 : 0; | |
intersection() { | |
translate([SliceOffset,0,Block.z/4]) | |
if (TestFit) | |
cube([ScrewOC.x/2,4*Block.y,Block.z/2],center=true); | |
else | |
cube([4*Block.x,4*Block.y,Block.z/2],center=true); | |
union() { | |
translate([0,0.6*Block.y,Block.z/2]) | |
ShapedBlock(); | |
translate([0,-0.6*Block.y,Block.z/2]) | |
rotate([0,180,0]) | |
ShapedBlock(); | |
} | |
} | |
} |