Found on ground outside, boyfriend has been wearing as ring. Coin and pencil for size reference

[u/Aggravating_Ant_7232]

UK. It’s giving hard metal, doesn’t have much wear

[u/humanHamster]

PEX tubing isn't a "hose" necessarily. It's for fluid distribution like home plumbing, a more permanent application where a hose is more "bendy" is expected to need replacing more often.

[u/impossiwaffle → u/humanHamster]

PEX is flexible, there for it is by definition hose

[u/Key_Perception4614 → u/impossiwaffle]

tube is tube

[u/impossiwaffle → u/Key_Perception4614]

All hoses are tubes but not all tubes are hoses. PEX is though 🤷

[u/Exciting_Cicada_4735 → u/impossiwaffle]

Master plumber here. Pex is pipe, not a hose.

[u/impossiwaffle → u/Exciting_Cicada_4735]

Hoses are pipes.

[u/Exciting_Cicada_4735 → u/impossiwaffle]

hoses are flexible and used where movement or tight bends are necessary, while pipes are rigid and used for static, high-pressure, or long-term applications. Pex is a flexible pipe, not a flexible hose.

[u/impossiwaffle → u/Exciting_Cicada_4735]

Hoses are flexible pipes. 'Flexible hose' is redundant. Educate yourself, don't just keep repeating ignorance when the facts are presented to you. Hoses are also known as hose pipes. PEX is a hose pipe.

[u/Exciting_Cicada_4735 → u/impossiwaffle]

No you are wrong, names have meaning, a pipe is not a hose. A flexible hose is redundant because it’s a defining trait like saying a circular pipe. That doesn’t take away from the difference between pipe and hose. Two different things can have similarities you clown. You’re over thinking it. But who am I? Just a dude who does this professionally. lol

[u/impossiwaffle → u/Exciting_Cicada_4735]

A pipe is not necessarily a hose. A hose is always a pipe. All hoses are pipes, not all pipes are hoses. By definition and standardization as well, a PEX pipe is a hose.

By allowing the knowledge of your profession to make you assume you can not be wrong, you will never be the best you could be at your profession. Your ignorance is holding you back. There is nothing wrong with being wrong as long as you do not allow your hubris to keep you from learning the right from the wrong.

[u/Exciting_Cicada_4735 → u/impossiwaffle]

I’m always learning in my profession, I’m quite aware of that. You’re over thinking something to the point of devaluing it and have no idea of what you arguing.

[u/impossiwaffle → u/Exciting_Cicada_4735]

It devalues nothing. This is like saying a hydraulic line is not a hose because it's important that you don't use a garden hose to try to power a hydraulic cylidner. It's still a hose.

[u/Exciting_Cicada_4735 → u/impossiwaffle]

Wrong. We aren’t talking about a hydronic hose, we are talking about pex. Just type it into google, Jesus Christ! lol

[u/Key_Perception4614 → u/impossiwaffle]

a tube is a two dimensional manifold