Quote Originally Posted by dryfly View Post
OK, well I'm always learning here so I'll ask a little more. Did you have to heat hose because the clamps were too small? I know there are two different kinds of PEX clamps, the copper ring and the pinch clamp. Which do you use?

I've also read where some folks use the straight male PEX fittings, the kind to splice two pieces of tubing together, in order to place a piece of PEX between the soft tubing and the female screw on fitting that couples to the Nautilus panel. For a reason I don't understand, this seems to work better than trying to connect the soft tubing to the screw on female fitting. Seems like either way you are using the clamps on the soft tubing.

I think @FT4NOW has the right idea.
I used the pinch clamps. I think they were Shark bite brand. Yes the clamps were slightly too small for the soft hose.