On 12/12/2004 8:57 AM US(ET), Srgnt Billko took fingers to keys, and
typed the following:

BTW - I use old hose to pump water from a brook, siphon from a small
reservoir and irrigate garden areas so I have collected over 20 hoses that
people have thrown out and patch them up. Short pieces are used to tie up
branches of fruit trees.


I keep an old 25' piece to drain the precipitate water off the winter
cover of my inground pool (as long as it hasn't turned to ice). My yard
is sloped slightly and about 15 feet away from the pool, the ground
slopes away to where it is lower than the top of my pool. I put a small
(2 pound) rock in a leaf bag type basket attached to a pole, and place
one end of the hose in the bag before putting it all in the pool. The
bag keeps leaves from blocking off the siphon action and the rock
causes a slight depression in the cover so that the water runs towards
the basket and hose end. I drag out the other end of the hose to it's
full length and then lift up the hose end to where it is even or above
the pool height (for me, about chest height) and then pour water in the
hose, using a large plastic garden watering can ,with the sprinkler head
removed, until the bubbles quit coming out the pool end of the hose, and
then just drop my hose end on the ground. Works like a charm.


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"meirman" wrote in message
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The threaded thing on the end of my garden hose leakes, and I wanted
to cut it off and buy something to clamp on to the end that wouldn't
leak.

They seem only to sell devices for 5/8 and 3/4 inch hose, and I'm sure
mine is smaller than that.

Do they not make my size anymore?

Any place I can get these connectors?

Meirman



I've got 1/2" connectors but I've had them for so long I can't remember
where I got them but I usually pick stuff like that up in drug stores at
seasons end because they sell them at clearance prices. Of course Walmart


&


KMart always have those things in season - and then there is always chain
hardware stores. I have also gotten some that are tapered so that
one-size-fits-all.