How can I keep garden hose connections usable? After a year or two, the connections are corroded and impossible to unscrew, even using WD-40 or other freeing chemicals.
Is there something I can smear on them to keep them operating freely?
TIA
How can I keep garden hose connections usable? After a year or two, the connections are corroded and impossible to unscrew, even using WD-40 or other freeing chemicals.
Is there something I can smear on them to keep them operating freely?
TIA
I'd think that anti-seize compound would work. Loctite is probably the most common brand.
I wonder if the water has a lot of minerals in it? My cheap $5 hoses last at least ten years.
Though it's easy enough to replace the fittings it's not really worth doing.
We have well water here that is tough on metal. I usually cut the connectors off and replace them with plastic as soon as they start getting nasty.
Go to Lee Valley and buy their good brass quick-connects. Expensive but worth every cent.
Best answer so far.
I find the plastic connectors are pretty cheap, don't corrode and get hard to open, and seal well. It's really easy to just cut off the old connector and clamp on a plastic one.
They also make those quick connect things, but the few I've had have been a bit difficult to operate.
snipped-for-privacy@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@home.home:
I was just about to post the same thing. I use a garden hose to feed my evaporative cooler. I just replaced the hose (old one springing leaks most evey day) and had a hard tome getting the old hose off the adapter to the cooler water fitting. I made an adapter with two plastic connectors and a few inches of hose ($3.50 total) to isolate the new hose from the adapter. I expect no problem removing it. Very easy to mount on hose - the metal ones require a screwdriver and cost $1 more.
Just keep in mind they snap easily. Today I dropped the hose nozzle and it snapped. Second time I did that. If I see brass I'd pay extra for that.
I invariably step on those metal hose ends. Put one out of round and they're useless.
...snip...
Just step on the mating end with the same force.
Screwing 2 ovals together is pretty easy. ;-)
Then plastic is better for you. I've never once had brass bend, but always have a nozzle on it.
I've replaced hose fittings with new plastic, which I consider junk. My new-last-year yard has taken a lot of work in landscaping and caring for artificial pond. Our water has a huge amount of iron, and when the outdoor connection (on hose reel) leaked a lot, the connections got pretty nasty. I took off the reel-to-faucet connector, soaked the fittings in CLR, and....voila! Then, for that particular PIA, I'm going to put it on quick connects and seal them up with silicone caulk. I have 100' of hose to haul around for various projects, and I am meticulous in making sure I don't screw together any fittings with sand on or in them; those don't leak.
After I get the veggie garden planted, I'll be making some concrete stepping stones shaped like grape leaves, and put a few along the concrete edging I make for flower beds. Google maps will think there is a Jack-in-the-beanstalk down here ;o)
The ones from Lee valey don't need a screw driver but cost more than a dollar more --
Which is why I like the "full flow" brass ones from Lee Valley.
Which is why I put the brass quick connects on them. Don't bend. Don't crack, haven't corroded yet, easy to connect and disconnect
I have found the black and green quick disconnects with the short, fat collar seem to suck but the orange ones with the longer locking collar work pretty well.
Ed Pawlowski wrote in news:n5mdnUv9O6jxZ_XOnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:
Couldn't help but note : Now that's a real oxymoron
loctite anti-sieze
almost as good as military intelligence or honest politician or junbo shrimp
Good suggestion.
Thanks.
philo wrote in news:lkb1j5$44j$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
Yes. Well water.
It's on an hour on Friday nights, so I guess it's on for an hour.
As the son of an editor, I usually catch things like this. Good one, you are spot on.
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