Apnea Forum Posting

Posted by Cue Miller on January 19, 1999 at 18:28:34:

In Reply to: Re: nasal pillows posted by Gene on January 19, 1999 at 10:34:36:

I've posted this before on alt.support.sleep-disorder (on Usenet), but perhaps this will give some ideas to people on this forum.

A day after I started on CPAP I bought an over-the-door hook at a local hardware store and just hung it over the top of my (wooden) headboard and ran the hose through the hook.

I've found since then that the tension on the hook is not enough to keep it clamped to the headboard, even after I built the hook up with tape. The hook would sometimes come off during the night. Also,
because the hose is ridged, it would bounce as it fed through the hook as I turned over and bounce right out of the hook.

Soooo. Ever the coathanger genius, I bought a woodworking clamp (not a "C" clamp, but the kind that looks like a flattened pair of pliers). The clamp has a 1/4" hole through the bottom parts of the clamp, the part that does the clamping. I got a heavy split ring like one uses on a large keychain and ran it through the hole. Then I got a larger steel welded ring and ran it through the keychain ring.

Now I can simply place the clamp over the top of the headboard, and the large ring dangles from the smaller one at the bottom of the clamp. I then run the hose through the large ring.

The clamp is quite strong and cannot be pulled off the headboard easily. The ring is closed, and attached to the clamp by the split ring, so the hose cannot pop out, but runs through the ring as I pull on it. I put a piece of foam rubber underneath the clamp to deaden the sound of the ridged hose running through the ring and protect the oak headboard.

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