Another very helpful tool

[KevinP73]

No affiliation with the company. It's just a cool tool I came across while fabricating my oil system.

http://koultools

[john walker's workshop]

coulda used that on my last hot rod. great idea. less bloodletting for sure.

[JFairman]

Those look kinda cool. They should help your fingers last if your putting together alot of lines.
In a shop environment, other guys will borrow them and they'll probably eventually get lost, squished, or broken.

I wrap the braided hose as tight as I can with 1" masking tape, or even better fiberglass reinforced packaging tape and carefully cut the hose off square in the middlew of the tape with a die grinder and death wheel at high speed.
Clean out the inside of the hose, oil the threads of the fitting so they tighten down easier and oil the hose ID and fitting barbs, and carefully peel off the tape at the last moment without fraying the stainless wrap and then push the hose onto the fitting almost all the way leaveing about 1mm at the end so the inner rubber part of the hose can squish out into that area as you tighten down the outer part or collar of the fitting.
The remaining setion of hose will still have the tape around the end to protect the stainless braiding from snagging on things and coming unravelled and eventually shredding peoples fingers.

With new anodized fittings and taking the time on my own car, I wrap 2 layers of masking tape around them first and use large crescent wrenches snugged down on the flats so the anodizing doesn't get scratched, stays pretty, and the tips of the points don't get rolled over by a loose fitting open end wrench.
Then remove the tape and they look gorgeous and don't leak.

Rinse out the inside of your new hose with solvent once more, blow it out with compressed air and you're ready to install it.