Topic: Making carb insulators?

[TwoTired]

My opinion is just buy the parts you need; I mean, $9 apiece. Using a hose will effect turbulance, flow and a host of other things.

I agree.
How many people go out of their way to drive the bumpiest, most potholed, crumbling roads that they can find, routinely?
That's like putting water hose on the carbs to save some pennies. 
When the correct parts are NLA, then you do what you gotta do, and live with debilitated operation.

Cheers,

[754]

 I think a lot of the webers used straight tubing except the RC manifolds... so we have been running with the step in ithem for decades, and it works well . I suppose if we made proper ones, they would run EVEN BETTER....
 There was a guy on here last year was going to make the rubbers to order for K7 and or Automatic.. and he was going to make us some for webers.. reasonable.. cant remember the name he went by..

[apehanger 550]

  I had my tubes softened up nicely,but I left them in the wintegreen oil too long and they swelled in diameter--- too much of a good thing

Won't they shrink back down to size if left to air dry for a few days?

  Well. It has been a few days and not much sign of reduction in swelling,but they are grossly oversize. I am getting new ones,but I do have a few ideas on trying to get the old ones back---
  First,I will try the crock pot [hot water] at the low setting for a few hours to possibly drive some of the wintegreen oil out, then air dry for a few weeks and repeat if necessary. Containment in a sleeve of conduit or PVC pipe while soaking might have been a good option as well.
  It is really about sharing knowledge at this point,as mine are the $9.00 ones. The originals were so hard at the outset that they were like plastic and not rubber. If they can be made useable,it would be good to know if the boots ever become un-obtainable.
 It may be a while,but I will share the info on the old ones as it becomes known