braided is easy to make, you just need to be methodical about building them up and making sure the olive is right and the braid is tucked up right too

and make sure you get thr right hose for the right application, or if you are doing more than one run of hose for brakes and oil and stuff, buy one lot and get that done first before you make the other lot up

and no, they don't get hot as far as i could tell, but i didn't put my hands near them when i went on track