Two clips - one plastic followed by one metal

I love the old metal clips. The sight of the metal clip and then the sound of it being popped open is oh so exiting. Also, great feeling of "power" holding the clip while you are about to give your gal an enema! Yet, the metal clip does not seal as well I like, so I use a standard plastic clip just before it to pinch the tubing closed. Wonder how many here use two or ? clips.

Those old clips did not always seal completely. Mom’s enema bag had one, she had to crimp the tube to prevent leaking.

I’ve been using the steel snap-over-center style clips for years. They work fine.

I’ve more than one premature release from bumping a plastic clamp.

My silicone bag setup came with a lever valve. It works great and I can easily control the flow.

I use two clamps. I put one on each end opening outwardly. I use a plastic gallon water jug reservoir and put a clip with hose in it, onto the jug neck opening. It holds the enema hose down in the bottom of the jug. I prime the hose and close the clamp on the other end.

Very handy when camping or traveling. But i worked out the idea because i hated the stink inside China made bags.

Interesting ... the clips on mom's bags worked 100% and any I've had anything to do with since have also worked just fine.

I wonder if the old red hose, real rubber I think, was softer, easier to clamp than new hoses which would be more plastic like than rubber like?

Klystra made a stainless steel spring clamp that was the "Cadillac" of tubing clamps. I'm not sure how old mine is, but it still works just fine. Wish I would have bought a couple more.

My mom brought the real McCoy home from the hospital after “female surgery” some 50+ years ago……it was a pale, clear green bag, made by TOMAC, and had a molded-in pouch for soap. It was in a box with her room number written on it! The clamp was simple spring steel and was either all on or all off. I first rode that thing at 8 - graduated from bulb - in fact, sort of a graduation/initiation. She had no clue what flame she was fanning. Anyway….yes, the sound/ping of the clamp opening was electrical. By the time I had hit 13 my rides at her behest were over, had to find my own equipment . Which I did. But oh….the metal clamp……

I've never noticed a problem with my vintage metal clamp. But I'm sure that the real red rubber hoses closed more easily and completely with them. I wish I could get my hands on some of that hosing.

Interesting about red tubing being easier to clamp - The red tubing that came with the enema bags I purchased in the late 1960's was stiff, plastic-like and difficult to clamp. Sounds like years before tubing was made from softer red rubber.

Interesting about red tubing being easier to clamp - The red tubing that came with the enema bags I purchased in the late 1960's was stiff, plastic-like and difficult to clamp. Sounds like years before tubing was made from softer red rubber.

@reddevil From what I know mom purchased her first enema bag around 1940, an open top, and 1946/47 a combination fountain syringe. Both were red rubber with ribbed red rubber hoses, metal clamps and black nozzles.