leaking quick-disconnect for faucet to garden house.

[micky]

I bought a quick-disconnect from Home Depot, to connect a garden hose to a kitchen faucet. (I can't find the exact model on their webpage)

It leaks like crazy. Is that normal?

Maybe 10% of the water when a lot is flowing, a higher percentabge when the faucet isn't on much.

The connector seems to be in good condition, nothing missing or broken.

Is there a better quality connector that doesn't leak?

One one occasion, when I had the end of the hose closed or almot closed, the hose along with its half of the connector came spurting off.

Is there a better quality connector that doesn't do that?

[hubops]

Something like this ?

Leaking from the threaded-on connection ? or leaking from the snap-together connection ? both ? John T.

[Wade Garrett]

I've got several of them and while easily swapping nozzles, sprinklers is convenient- they do leak.

And mine do so from both the connection and the threads which like to back out from being hand-tight. Leaking from the connection happens if you apply lateral force to it. Sometimes crud gets into the connection and makes leaking worse.

[Dean Hoffman]

Common sense says it shouldn't leak at all. That doesn't matter if it's a 1/4" tubing connection or an 8" irrigation pipe connection. An exception might be if there is a deliberate drain to prevent freezing. Even those shouldn't leak under pressure. That must make quite a mess around your sink.

[micky]

Yeah, that's it, although it didn't have a Moen name, and the white plastic part is green. Mine says on it NSF-61-G Lead Free

No.

Yes, just where the pieces come together, coming out I think from the circular crack between the plastic and the metal parts of the part on the left. Also that means there's no place for a mispositioned washer.

When the two pieces are together, one wobbles within the other. And it moves a full millimeter back and forth. It's not surprising that it leaks. Maybe I should go shopping in person and find one that doesn't wiggle.

This is too new to have crud.

And it does make a mess. Yet several of the reviews above comment that there is no leaking.

[gfretwell]

Are you sure you are not missing an O ring in the socket? That is the seal in the disconnects I have and when they leak I end up putting in a new O ring. Without it water pisses everywhere. Also be sure it is completely seated.

[angelica...]

Nobody else has asked, so I'm going to.

Why are you connecting a hose to your kitchen faucet?

Cindy Hamilton

[Rod Speed]

I did that to feed the water to the still cooling coils.

[Cheez Whiz]

Enema?

[angelica...]

That's a good one. It never would have occurred to me.

We have a similar fitting for the basement sink. I can't quite recall why. Perhaps something to do with cleaning hot tub filters in the winter.

(The basement sink isn't a utility tub; it's a regular stainless kitchen sink with a regular kitchen faucet.)

Cindy Hamilton

[Anonymous]

Depending on what you are actually doing, a waterbed fill kit might work better

[Jim Joyce]

I sold my waterbed in 2003 but I still have a fill kit that looks exactly like that. I wonder why I still have that? It's not like waterbeds are coming back into vogue.

[gfretwell]

Me too ... when I was 15

[gfretwell]

It was more like 1997 for us when I remodeled that end of the house. I just gave the waterbed away and built a bed with the same type of drawer storage under it set up for a king mattress. I ended up with a void between the drawer units that I left open and it became our dog house. 3 dogs have found it and slept there over the years.

[Jim Joyce]

I put mine on CL with a 'best offer', thinking I'd maybe get $50 if I was lucky, but a woman called and asked if I'd sell it for $1700. I told her if she came over right away I'd even help her load it. It turned out that I misplaced the brand new padded rails so she took it without those. I found them about 6 months later but she had already purchased a set so I trashed mine.

[micky]

Wow. I was once looking for an appartment and found a big house for rent, and when I asked how much it was, he asked how much I wanted to pay! After 2 or 3 go-rounds, I said good-bye.

I wonder where she got the idea 1700 was a good price.

OTOH, I sold me previous car for $1000, a fair price, but I couldn't find the spare keys or fobs until a month later. I emailed him a half-dozen times and never heard back. Later ones might have bounced.

All I had was his email, no phone number.

He was a guy 50 or 60 who came with a friend to drive his car home. Either he really liked his friend or, what I eventually thought of, he was a flipper, and he'd already sold the car a month later and didn't want to be bothered with more keys and fobs.