Worked at a place that made large aluminum tubes with windows, and most of the gajillion feet of hose used there had small rings of built up tape (usually a thin, and dense foam tape) at the female fitting on every hose length. Served three purposes...keeping the hoses from popping off when dragged, kept the hose fitting from getting severely abraded/eroded over time, and protected the aluminum structure if dragged around inside. There was scale at play here, obviously, as it was a normal day to spoil up over a thousand feet of air hose at shift end, but the same stuff applies in a small garage. Also worth noting that hose storage reels always were started with a male hose end going into a fixed female fitting on the spool, so the hoses were less likely to pop open, or snag.
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