I've tried the plastic and brass connectors but they are not only expensive (in terms of the cost of a new hose anyway) but they often leak, with a loss of water costing more than they cost themselves.
It seems to me for a puncture leak, some kind of plastic cladding would work but what kind of readily available plastic cladding can be hose clamped easily onto it?
It has to handle the 30 to 50 (or whatever) psi of water pressure.
The problem with that approach is that the hose is 2 layers . The water will fill the space between collapsing the inner layer and stopping flow . I use 3"-4" sections of copper pipe and clamps made from steel wire - I have a tool for that .
Phil Swift says, "Now that's a lot of damage!", as he suggests you use his Flex Tape product. I haven't tried it.
The cheap plastic connectors should work. Even a minor leak should not matter when hose in in use. Almost sounds like you do not want to shut off the water to the hose when not in use.
Just use a decent quality plastic connector - it won't leak.
I've used those a bunch of times over the past few decades. I can't remember ever having a problem with them.
Hose comes in different diameter so be sure what you get is meant to fit your diameter.
I had trouble when I'd tighted down the two screws, and the two pieces had met each other, and it still wasn't tight enough. I don't know if I had the wrong size connector that time or not, but I think so. Brass is better than plastic. Metal is better than plasic. Although I liked plastic because it wouldn't damage anything if you dropped the hose.
On other occasions I had a garden hose connected to an adapter to an interior sink. Everythign was fine until I turned off the water flow at the end near me. It shot off the faucet, that is, the hose shot off the non-original connector, didn't just leak like has been the case for you. (although it made very little mess.) Then I got a quickdisconnect from Amazon. Again when I turned the water off at my end, the quickdisconnect disconnected quickly, but all the spare water went into the sink. So I bought the other version of quickdisconnect, and the same thing happened. Then I gave up on turning off the water at the hose end when using quckdisonnct.
But the ones I've used on the actual garden hose, in the garden, hae worked fine, like hubops says. (Can I call you hub?)
They've worked OK for me.
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