You guys are going to force me to make a video of why to get the hose cutters arent you? -_-

 

Cutters are clean and easy, might leave a few stragglers but Tin snips work to clear those out. I’ve done the cut off wheel method and prefer the cutters as they are clean and less debris to fall into the line.

 

Hose cutters are great without a doubt & I use them on rubber based braided line all the time.

Where I hesitate to use them is on hoses with a Teflon liner.
They tend to crush & deform the end of the Teflon so in this case I stick to a cutoff wheel.

 

If you've got 2 hands this will be easy.

Loosen the clamp like 5-10%, just enough to make it mobile on the braid. Get your nut ready, fit nut over hose, begin to install nut. Continue to loosen clamp and move it down while installing nut. 2 hand job, need a vise to hold the hose tho

Once the nut is on, unthread clamp and move to next hose

 

Something that worked really well for me was heat shrink. slide a piece on, shrink it, and then cut through the middle of the heat shrink. Holds everything nice and tight. then peel it off and put the end on.