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

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meirman wrote:
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

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If this is one of those cheap plastic 1/2" hoses I'd just toss it and
get a hose with some volume.

In alt.home.lawn.garden on Sun, 12 Dec 2004 05:25:25 GMT GFRfan
posted:

meirman wrote:
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

If this is one of those cheap plastic 1/2" hoses I'd just toss it and
get a hose with some volume.

Thanks for replying but I've never noticed that it has inadequate
volume. It's always been enough for all of my purposes, even when in
series with two other hoses.

I don't believe in waste. Once I own something, I use it until it's
not usable anymore.

If it had inadequate volume, I would assign it to tasks for which its
volume was adequate.

If something requires fixing, I compare the cost of a repair with the
cost of replacement or of no longer having something (all the costs,
including the costs to society).

If I have no need for something that's usuable, I give it to Goodwill
Industries. If it needs repair first, I usually repair it. (On rare
occasions I donate it broken or I would be willing to fix it if I
needed it, but the effort required to fix it is too great since I
don't know how much any of Goodwill's customers will want it.) It
amazes me how many people throw good stuff, even working stuff, in the
trash rather than share it with people who need it. (I also sometimes
sell things at yard sales, but I normally will only give away things
to certain people. Many people will take anything if it is free, and
then treat it badly, leave it out in the rain to rust, for example.

But If they paid even a dollar for it, they usually treat it better.

Another reason to keep this hose, if these are not enough, is that I
need 2 or 3 hoses to reach my car, should I ever wish to wash my car
at home. If I threw away the hose I wrote about and then one of my
other two hoses starts splitting all over the place, and isn't worth
repairing, I wouldn't have enough hose to reach my car.

I also need 3 hoses to reach to the back yard from the front faucet.
Sometimes the rear faucet is still turned off from the winter, and
sometimes I just don't want to bother connecting back there.

Also, I needed 3 or 4 hoses when I went away for more than a month
just after planting a tree and a couple bushes. Using a timer and Y
connectors and several hoses, I was able to water just what I had
planted without wetting my neighbors or making a swamp out of the
public path at the edge of my property.


The principle of not wasting is more important than the money,
although the money would be a sufficient reason.


"Use it up, wear it out,
fix it up, or do without."

"Lo tashlis."


This came out a lot longer than I intended. Oh well.

Meirman

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meirman wrote:
In alt.home.lawn.garden on Sun, 12 Dec 2004 05:25:25 GMT GFRfan
posted:


meirman wrote:

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

If this is one of those cheap plastic 1/2" hoses I'd just toss it and
get a hose with some volume.


Thanks for replying but I've never noticed that it has inadequate
volume. It's always been enough for all of my purposes, even when in
series with two other hoses.

I don't believe in waste. Once I own something, I use it until it's
not usable anymore.

If it had inadequate volume, I would assign it to tasks for which its
volume was adequate.

If something requires fixing, I compare the cost of a repair with the
cost of replacement or of no longer having something (all the costs,
including the costs to society).




If the end gave out, chances are that the rest of the hose will split or
give out soon. Just buy 1 hose and throw the old one away. With that
attitude you will have 75' of fittings with very little actual hose. It
has nothing to do with tree hugging conservation. It's just cheapness.
You can buy a 75' section if industrial rubber garden hose for under
$37.00 and with a lifetime warranty. It breaks, you take it back to the
store and they give you a new one. No hunting for the right fitting, no
fitting it together only to develop another leak in a week. jmho

GFRfan wrote:
meirman wrote:

I don't believe in waste. Once I own something, I use it until it's
not usable anymore.
If it had inadequate volume, I would assign it to tasks for which its
volume was adequate.

If something requires fixing, I compare the cost of a repair with the
cost of replacement or of no longer having something (all the costs,
including the costs to society).




If the end gave out, chances are that the rest of the hose will split or
give out soon. Just buy 1 hose and throw the old one away. With that
attitude you will have 75' of fittings with very little actual hose. It
has nothing to do with tree hugging conservation. It's just cheapness.
You can buy a 75' section if industrial rubber garden hose for under
$37.00 and with a lifetime warranty. It breaks, you take it back to the
store and they give you a new one. No hunting for the right fitting, no
fitting it together only to develop another leak in a week. jmho


Also, check this:
http://www.make-stuff.com/gardening/gardenhose.html

GFRfan wrote:
meirman wrote:

I don't believe in waste. Once I own something, I use it until it's
not usable anymore.
If it had inadequate volume, I would assign it to tasks for which its
volume was adequate.

If something requires fixing, I compare the cost of a repair with the
cost of replacement or of no longer having something (all the costs,
including the costs to society).




If the end gave out, chances are that the rest of the hose will split or
give out soon. Just buy 1 hose and throw the old one away. With that
attitude you will have 75' of fittings with very little actual hose. It
has nothing to do with tree hugging conservation. It's just cheapness.
You can buy a 75' section if industrial rubber garden hose for under
$37.00 and with a lifetime warranty. It breaks, you take it back to the
store and they give you a new one. No hunting for the right fitting, no
fitting it together only to develop another leak in a week. jmho


Also, check this:
http://www.make-stuff.com/gardening/gardenhose.html

GFRfan wrote:

GFRfan wrote:

meirman wrote:


I don't believe in waste. Once I own something, I use it until it's
not usable anymore. If it had inadequate volume, I would assign it
to tasks for which its
volume was adequate.

If something requires fixing, I compare the cost of a repair with the
cost of replacement or of no longer having something (all the costs,
including the costs to society).





If the end gave out, chances are that the rest of the hose will split
or give out soon. Just buy 1 hose and throw the old one away. With
that attitude you will have 75' of fittings with very little actual
hose. It has nothing to do with tree hugging conservation. It's just
cheapness.
You can buy a 75' section if industrial rubber garden hose for under
$37.00 and with a lifetime warranty. It breaks, you take it back to
the store and they give you a new one. No hunting for the right
fitting, no fitting it together only to develop another leak in a
week. jmho



Also, check this:
http://www.make-stuff.com/gardening/gardenhose.html



But if you insist, you could go to a plumbing shop and get those
materials to patch the hose.

GFRfan wrote:

GFRfan wrote:

meirman wrote:


I don't believe in waste. Once I own something, I use it until it's
not usable anymore. If it had inadequate volume, I would assign it
to tasks for which its
volume was adequate.

If something requires fixing, I compare the cost of a repair with the
cost of replacement or of no longer having something (all the costs,
including the costs to society).





If the end gave out, chances are that the rest of the hose will split
or give out soon. Just buy 1 hose and throw the old one away. With
that attitude you will have 75' of fittings with very little actual
hose. It has nothing to do with tree hugging conservation. It's just
cheapness.
You can buy a 75' section if industrial rubber garden hose for under
$37.00 and with a lifetime warranty. It breaks, you take it back to
the store and they give you a new one. No hunting for the right
fitting, no fitting it together only to develop another leak in a
week. jmho



Also, check this:
http://www.make-stuff.com/gardening/gardenhose.html


But if you insist, you could go to a plumbing shop and get those
materials to patch the hose.

"meirman" wrote in message
...
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.

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.


"Srgnt Billko" wrote in message
...

"meirman" wrote in message
...
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.

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.


"Srgnt Billko" wrote in message
...


"meirman" wrote in message
. ..


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.

meirman wrote:

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


Buy the 5/8 fitting and try it, or have the store order a smaller
fitting. Most Mom & Pop and chain hardware stores will order what they
don't stock.

In alt.home.lawn.garden on Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:41:28 GMT "Srgnt
Billko" posted:


"meirman" wrote in message
.. .
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

I don't have to know where. It's enough that you say they are
available.

Thanks to everyone who said they were.

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.

I bought a couple at Frank's, a multi-state nursery and crafts chain
that is going out of business, and since I got the smaller size of
two, I was surprised it was still too big. But I have bigger hoses
too and will probably use them eventually.

I LEARNED THAT ONE CAN GET RID OF A LOT OF LEAKS, by tightening the
connections with a pair of pliers. A water-pump pliers works very
well, and I got rid of 5 of the 6 leaks in the three hoses connected
in series.


Meirman

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