Hozelock conundrum

[Roland Perry]

What I need is either a "double female" connector (which would be the opposite of the "double male" ones, and definitely not the 'hoze repair' item), or alternatively a threaded-tap-to-female connector.

There are thousands of threaded-tap-to-male connectors, and adding the "double female" to that would create the threaded-tap-to-female function.

I can't find these anywhere; the best, but very messy, workaround being a pair of back-to-back hose-to-female connectors (and a two-inch hose).

[Not worried if it's an official yellow-and-four-times-the-price one, or a plug-compatible in green/blue/whatever.]

[mark]

I thought a hose repair was double female fitting. Guess I don't understand the question.

mark

[Andy Cap]

Are you saying your hose has a male fitting on the end ? Why not change it?

Andy C

[Brian Gaff]

From memory they nearly all leak or fall apart in a year in any case. How on earth is it that tis simple device can be such a heap of crap?

Brian

[Nick]

I don't know what you are trying to achieve but would suggest that there is bound to be a more elegant solution. Nick.

[newshound]

Check out the "brass socket" half way down this page

Tap connectors are half inch BSP (I think)

[The Natural Philosopher]

fairly sure I've GOT a double female somewhere..standard hozelock.

easy enough to make wit a short bit of hose and two females

here is a threaded female In brass..

[Roland Perry]

In message , at

16:05:28 on Wed, 26 Jun 2013, mark remarked:

No, a hose repair is hose to hose.

Contrast that with what you often put on the end of a hose: a hose to female.

What I want is a female to female.

[Roland Perry]

In message , at 16:24:49 on Wed, 26 Jun

2013, Brian Gaff remarked:

Nothing like as bad as that.

[Roland Perry]

In message , at 16:50:40 on Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Nick remarked:

I'm trying to go from a threaded tap to connector welded onto a hose that screws onto a threaded tap, but with a hoselock in the middle.

The most elegant seems to be:

Screw tap to male Female to female Male to screw-that-fits-the-hose (the latter sometimes called an appliance connector).

[Roland Perry]

In message , at

16:15:25 on Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Andy Cap remarked:

In a sense - the hose has a screw connector that fits directly onto the tap. But the mission is to make it click-connect.

I can't change the fitting on the end of the hose because it's a fancy 'flat' hose where the current connector is welded on. All I can do is screw in a fitting that turns it into a hose with a male on the end.

[Roland Perry]

In message , at

17:01:35 on Wed, 26 Jun 2013, newshound remarked:

No, that's a screw connector, not a Hozelock.

What I need is something with a pair of the *bottom* half of this:

(A hose connector, which I don't want, has a pair of the top half).

The inelegant solution is to buy two of these, and put very short length of hose between them; but in the final assembly that's four connectors one after the other, and I'd really rather do it with fewer.

[Tim+]

A quick scan through google images would suggest that such a beast doesn't exist.

Do you really *need* one or just want one? Most folk seem to manage without by arranging the polarity of their hose ends in such a way that the requirement doesn't arise.

Tim

[Tim+]

Um, what's wrong with one of these?

Screw on to hose, fit male nozzle to tap & Bob's your father's brother.

Tim

[D.M.Chapman]

Wouldn't a "screw tap to male" and one of

screwed on the hose do? Sounds like it's designed to fit a flat hose...

Assuming that's the correct thread anyway.

Darren

[Roland Perry]

In message , at 21:23:13 on Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Tim+ remarked:

I'm trying to make it look as neat as possible

I have explained why I can't change the polarity at the hose end, but I suppose if there was a threaded-tap to female-hozelock connector available I could use one of those. But I couldn't find one of those either.

[David.WE.Roberts]

And for anyone who has the opposite problem

turns the end of the hose into a male.

And Bobbie is your mother's sister.

So you have all the options required for gender reallocation.

Cheers

Dave R

[Roland Perry]

In message , at 21:32:14 on Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Tim+ remarked:

Thanks, that will do nicely. (Hadn't seen that combination before).

[bert]

In message , Roland Perry writes

I had one of those - just chopped off the welded on end and fitted it to a normal hozelock connector

[Roland Perry]

In message , at 20:43:43 on Wed, 26 Jun 2013, David.WE.Roberts remarked:

Actually, I [and more to the point, local shops)] have one of those. It's the "downstream" half of what I wanted to plug into the double-female connector.