Love the story about the rack! It’s still making children of all ages happy! The Rain-O-Mats look like they’re putting out a good bit of water. If these are what you find, I can only encourage you to keep digging. The angles you chose for the video are really great, too. Especially like the shot where they are directly lined up.
The Rain-O-Mats are awesome heads! The spray heads were a high quality brass spray head. They had many patterns, angles and arcs available, and special order arc was never an issue. Very customer driven…. Too bad they didn’t survive the times…… they built a quality brass product and resisted the plastic transition; all those that stayed the course didn’t survive the rest of time, sadly. I had put in hundreds of the 300 HP sprays in the early mid 80’s a long with #7 rotors. Thanks for sharing. I have some I my system in my yard still going strong.
Kerry, Thanks for the comments. The Rain-O-Mats were indeed a nice rugged brass spray heads and I do believe they were a short lived company. Pretty much like all the other brass products companies, they did hang in there as long as possible to not fall to the plastic world. I really enjoyed working with the #7 rotors! They were very unique. I’m hopeful that there still might be a few stray Rain-O-Mat holdouts still in service out there. Who knows. I’m glad to hear that you have some still working at your place! That’s awesome!! Thanks for watching…
I like your stand. I should make something like it, but with 2" pipe. I want to make something that'll have a 2" output, then a 1 1/4" output then a 1" then a couple 3/4"s. I wonder if i put one of my small guns on the 2" if the stand would be strong enough to stay up. I'm thinking maybe if the main part of the pipe is 2", and i make legs at certain points, it should be sturdy enough. I also want to put valves on each sprinkler as well. I know the cost will be high especially for the 2" valves. Nice Rain-o-Mat's. Back then I had never heard of that company. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for your comments. Building a piping frame with various size outlets could be handy if you have a lot of sprinklers to display. For sure the cost of plumbing materials today has drastically increased. Rain-O-Mat sprinkler company was very short lived as compared to others. I think it only lasted approximately 30-35 years.
Love the story about the rack! It’s still making children of all ages happy! The Rain-O-Mats look like they’re putting out a good bit of water. If these are what you find, I can only encourage you to keep digging. The angles you chose for the video are really great, too. Especially like the shot where they are directly lined up.
Thank you for your comments!
The Rain-O-Mats are awesome heads!
The spray heads were a high quality brass spray head. They had many patterns, angles and arcs available, and special order arc was never an issue. Very customer driven…. Too bad they didn’t survive the times…… they built a quality brass product and resisted the plastic transition; all those that stayed the course didn’t survive the rest of time, sadly.
I had put in hundreds of the 300 HP sprays in the early mid 80’s a long with #7 rotors.
Thanks for sharing.
I have some I my system in my yard still going strong.
Kerry, Thanks for the comments.
The Rain-O-Mats were indeed a nice rugged brass spray heads and I do believe they were a short lived company. Pretty much like all the other brass products companies, they did hang in there as long as possible to not fall to the plastic world. I really enjoyed working with the #7 rotors! They were very unique. I’m hopeful that there still might be a few stray Rain-O-Mat holdouts still in service out there. Who knows.
I’m glad to hear that you have some still working at your place! That’s awesome!!
Thanks for watching…
Nice Rain-O-Mat pop-ups! They have a nice even coverage.
Thank you
I like your stand. I should make something like it, but with 2" pipe. I want to make something that'll have a 2" output, then a 1 1/4" output then a 1" then a couple 3/4"s. I wonder if i put one of my small guns on the 2" if the stand would be strong enough to stay up. I'm thinking maybe if the main part of the pipe is 2", and i make legs at certain points, it should be sturdy enough. I also want to put valves on each sprinkler as well. I know the cost will be high especially for the 2" valves. Nice Rain-o-Mat's. Back then I had never heard of that company. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for your comments. Building a piping frame with various size outlets could be handy if you have a lot of sprinklers to display. For sure the cost of plumbing materials today has drastically increased. Rain-O-Mat sprinkler company was very short lived as compared to others. I think it only lasted approximately 30-35 years.