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Hope ones are reusable too! Pretty sure you already knew that.
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Screw on SRAM ones are also single use (in theory). They should still crush a bit onto the hose. Annoyingly, the OEM SRAM barbs are pressed into the hose rather than threaded, so they are much harder to salvage and re-use than they could be.
I've never yet had an issue with any brand when re-tightening an already installed hose, and that's from spending a coulple of years working in a DH rental shop where we were swapping the brakes for UK/Euro customers very regularly.
coventry_eagle
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@snottyotter
If the olive slides off it wasn't fitted properly, they're meant to be crushed (not including the screw on SRAM ones.