Saw these while at Harbor Freight today looking for fence equipment:
Only $3 for an all-brass garden hose nozzle seemed too good to pass up:
I had just bought earlier this week these $7 ACE brass nozzles:
So, given I have a lot of garden hoses, I bought a half dozen at HF:
Turns out, at least the first one I tested leaked when shut off. :(
With my 80 psi of pressure, and hard daily use, I've had bad luck with a variety of the cheap hose nozzles:
When I look inside, I find the single o-ring ones seem to fail the most (I have to source those o-rings):