Garden hose connections

Any auto parts store.

Henkel Loctite brand is one of the most common brands of anti-seize available to and used by the automotive trade as well as most industrial mechanics - available from any good automotive or industrial supplier. Try Grainger.

The other common brand is Permatex.

I didn't find a match on Harbor Freight. But, most auto parts near me have some. Small tube, or jar with brush in the lid.

When I didn't have antiseize handy I always used a bit of moly grease, seemed to work as well.

But recently I've heard people using Teflon tape instead of antiseize and it sounds like a good idea.

I never like to tighten any type of fastener dry.

TimR wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Hmmm. Great, if it works! It would also seal the connection, another common fault with some screw-on connections.

In my recent rehosing of my swamp cooler water supply I had to replace the garden hose supplying the water because it kept developing new major leaks. A few years ago I had problems with the threads leaking at the connection between the old hose and the adapter to the copper tubing connector to the cooler. I used teflon tape then to cure that problem. I noted when I recently changed hoses that I could remove the old hose at that teflon point with only a little trouble. I had written it off to chance but as you mentioned, perhaps it was the teflon tape. I may just do that to all the new cooler hose connections and skip the no-seize.