Thanks to an assortment of aftermarket kits, installing air conditioning in a street rod is something that is easy to do for hands-on homebuilders, with one exception—making the necessary hoses.

Build a powerful gear-driven hose crimping tool completely from scratch and get professional-quality crimps at home. This video shows the full process from cutting and shaping the metal parts, to ...

DENVER—Gates Industrial Corp. P.L.C. is ready to unveil its new smart crimper technology, which it dubs the GC20 with Gates Cortex Intelligence. The Denver-based manufacturer and supplier of hose and ...

Gates targets baseline crimpers with new tech Gates has introduced a new smart crimper technology, which it has named the GC20 with Gates Cortex Intelligence.

Thanks to an assortment of aftermarket kits, installing air conditioning in a street rod is something that is easy to do for hands-on homebuilders, with one exception—making the necessary hoses.