I bought a used xp3 yesterday and sat in my garage and thought about how I could clean the hoses.
I looked at my tackle box and the idea hit me. I remember my friends in who played sax used a bushy, cloth on string with a weight on the end to clean their saxes they passed into the neck and out the mouth.
So I opened my tackle box and got a few other things.
1 bell sinker - small enough pass onto the hose
fishing line - 12lb test allowed for enough pull
cloth pcs - cut into small round pcs
coarse sponge - provide additional scrubbing
small button - attached at the end of the line to pull everything through
Tie the bell sinker to the fishing line and measure enough line about 1.5x the hose length.
Cut a small hole into the centre of the clolth pcs and pass the other end of the fishing line through it, then through the coarse sponge, and tie off onto the button.
Insert the sinker into the hose (hose inputs were still attached) and feed it through the hose, I whipped the hose end until the sinker passed through.
Pull the string and insert the cloth pcs one by one, I used a screwdriver to poke it in, and then start pulling slowly lightly squeezing/pinching the hose where the cloth is to help remove some 'gunk'. *wetting the cloth first helps feeding it through.
Nasty.
Decent result after only 1 pass (top) vs the other uncleaned hose (bottom).
And after 3 passes and hot water
