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Siliconhoses.com Technical Details

All silicone products are manufactured under the ISO 9001 quality system. Certificate No.07103Q10016ROM

Prototype hoses can be subjected to exhaustive tests in our R & D centre. Test facilities include:

  • Salt spray test chamber
  • Ambient temperature burst test chamber
  • High temperature burst test chamber
  • Low temperature test chamber
  • Pulse test chamber
  • Elongation test machine
  • Low expansion test machine
  • Tensile test machine
  • Ozone exposure test machine
  • Full spectrum analysis equipment for rubber compound
  • Chemical analysis test bench

From 6mm diameter up to 48mm diameter are of 3 ply construction, and a wall thickness of 3.5mm.

From 49mm diameter up to 83mm diameter are of 4 ply construction, and a wall thickness of 5mm.

From 84mm diameter up to 102mm diameter are 5 ply construction, and a wall thickness of 6mm.

Bellows hoses are 100mm long and have 2 convolutions reinforced with 3mm diameter stainless steel rings.

Straight couplers are 75mm long up to 76mm diameter, and 100mm long from 80mm to 102mm.

All elbows have equal leg lengths of 63mm up to 12mm diameter, 100mm from 13mm diameter up to 57mm, and 125mm from 60mm diameter up to 102mm diameter.

Straight reducer hoses are 100mm long up to 57mm diameter and 125mm long from 60mm to 102mm.

Straight hoses are 1 metre in length.

Burst pressures are rated at 4:1 of safe working load, see below.

Burst Pressure Guidelines - Standard Parts
Inside Diameter No. of Plies Wall (mm) Burst Pressure (PSi) Working at
3:1 (PSi)
Working at
4:1 (PSi)
6.5mm Bore 3 3.80 1127 376 282
8mm Bore 3 3.80 943 314 236
9.5mm Bore 3 3.80 814 271 204
12.7mm Bore 3 3.80 623 208 156
16mm Bore 3 3.80 521 174 130
19mm Bore 3 3.80 450 150 113
22mm Bore 3 3.80 397 132 99
25mm Bore 3 3.80 356 119 89
28mm Bore 3 3.80 323 108 81
32mm Bore 3 3.80 288 96 72
35mm Bore 3 3.80 267 89 67
38mm Bore 3 3.80 249 83 62
41mm Bore 3 3.80 233 78 58
45mm Bore 3 3.80 215 72 54
48mm Bore 3 3.80 204 68 51
51mm Bore 4 5.00 193 64 48
54mm Bore 4 5.00 235 78 59
57mm Bore 4 5.00 225 75 56
60mm Bore 4 5.00 216 72 54
63mm Bore 4 5.00 208 69 52
76mm Bore 4 5.00 179 60 45
89mm Bore 5 5.80 172 57 43
102mm Bore 5 5.80 142 47 36
127mm Bore 6 6.50 110 40 30
152mm Bore 6 6.50 103 34 26
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