How to use these hose clamps?

[cat007]

Hi all.
I bought a kegorator kit and with it for the gas and beer lines came these weird little hose clamps.
How the heck do you use them? I tried clamping the sides of the little sticky up bit in the direction of the arrows with some pliers but nothing moved.

Any ideas? Do I need a special tool?

 

[fdsaasdf]

You should use a clamp crimping tool. Needle-nose pliers also work but do the job badly.

 

[Chap]

I use nail pliers per photo. The clamp works how you have shown in your pic.

 

[S.E]

You can get the tool here https://www.kegland.com.au/clamp-tool-for-stepless-clamps.html

But the pliers Chap posted are just as good.

 

[pnorkle]

Meh - side-cutters do the job just as well and you probably already have some in your toolbox.

 

[Stokesy]

Yep, what pnorkel said, ive never had an issue using side cutters.

 

[S.E]

Yep, side cutters would work too. I just use my teeth.

 

[S.E]

Here is a youtube on how they work if that helps?

 

[pnorkle]

I just use my teeth.

 

[ABG]

 

[Lionman]

I hate those clamps. They are secure but are a bugger to get on and off and you can't reuse them.

Old school hose clamps all the way.

 

[john largue]

Pincers same as you use to pull out nails or teeth

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[Holden4th]

I use the tool pictured in Chap's post but agree with Lionman. Once they are on you have to do quite a bit of work to get them off. I use ones that you screw to tighten them up and have these on most of my lines. The exception is the gas line where I use the stepless ones to make sure that the seal is tight and evenly distributed.