On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:28:31 -0700, Oren wrote:

Are you 100% absolutely certain?!
We need more information

By the way, I went to ACE today and picked up "their" rendition of
the almost 100% brass garden hose shutoff valve:

http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13411231.jpg

Like the Home Depot garden hose valve, it had a black
material where you'd rather have brass; but, for the
extra dollar, it had a "two finger" shutoff valve, instead
of the one-finger shut off valve of the Home Depot variety.

Presumably you can apply more force to this shutoff valve
when it starts to get sticky ...