Thanks Sat, Melissa and G but I passed my neighborhood fire station before any of those. Walked in & they were in the middle of dive rescue training, told them that I used to get the same training in that room. They asked what I needed & I read them the hose description on Feelay's post, guy got up said "drive around the other side of the station". Met him in the bay & he said I could have the whole hose if I wanted it (it wasn't new). I would never use that much so he cut me a 2' piece of 3" hose and I was on my way. Thanks Feelay, and I'm going to use them for cooler hinges too.