Hose repair end

The other day I saw my neighbor had put an almost new garden hose by the side of the road. The female end was cut off, so I suppose he drove over it, was going to replace the end and decided not to bother with it. I can always use another hose, so I took it home.

Both HD and Ace were out of the female repair ends I normally use, which clamp on the hose with a couple of screws. But Ace had a style I'd never seen before; it is a compression-style fitting. It looked to be very well made, so I got it. When I installed the end, I was impressed by how tightly the compression fitting grabbed the hose and figured it would work good. The first picture shows the installed repair end.

HOWEVER, as soon as I put water pressure on the hose, the nut of the repair end popped right off! The second picture shows the separated end. The fitting is held together only by a very small flare on the compression fitting that goes inside a hexagonal hole in the nut. Since the hole is hexagonal instead of round, there is very little material to engage the flare.

I reassembled the fitting, stuck in in my vise, then enlarged the flare by hammering the round end of a ball peen hammer into the flare. The repair now holds pressure; time will tell if my fix was permanent.

Looks nice ?

You should of taken it back! Probably from the land of almost right!

That type fitting is very dependent on the proper wall thickness.

I don't see how they can market something without that dimension and expect not to get a lot of unhappy returns.

Maybe your fix will work...

Lowe's has a metal end, but I like the plastic ends. I keep a variety on hand.

Here's the kind from Lowe's:

> Lowe's has a metal end, but I like the plastic ends. I keep a variety on hand.

Yeah, that's what I normally use, but the store was out of them.

We used to get those in plastic. I would imagine the hardware store here still has them, but I don't use hoses as much as I did when we milked cows, so you couldn't prove by me. Seems to me that the plastic stuff the hardware store here sells is made by Gilmore.