I bought this used pool pump to suck up the water off the pool cover. I want to connect a garden hose to the pump. I went to the hardware store and pool store, and neither one could find me an adapter to connect it, to the female end of a garden hose. The outside diameter of the inlet is 1 1/4. So I image the only way to connect it is using a piece of hose with a clamp to some kind of reducing adapter. Any ideas, what I could do. Thanks.
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