A Better Way To Fix The End Of A Garden Hose
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- How to repair the end of a garden hose, the best way I know how to fix a broken hose end yet.
♦ Hose Repair Tool ~ turfmech.link/...
♦ Melnor XT "Clamshell" Hose End Fitting ~ www.amazon.com...
This tool works fine with standard duty hoses you already own but it works perfectly with the actual Eley hoses. One super tip I've got is to buy a long (expensive) Eley hose instead of a bunch of small hoses and cut the long Eley hose into the exact length segments you need around the house and garden. You can then use the repair tool and as shown in this video to put your own male/female ends on. Depending on how many short hoses you make you could end up saving hundreds of dollars over buying the pre-made short hose segments. Leader hoses and short 12 and 25 foot hoses can cost three times the price that you'll pay by buying a long hose and cutting it to size yourself. Here's best deal on hose Eley sells: turfmech.link/eley-58-hose It's a 200 foot segment that is priced just over $2 per foot. That's in comparison to their short 12-foot hose that's priced at about $4.50 per foot.
The only time I screw hose clamps anymore is if I need to remove it. I made a wire hose clamp tool. A spool of stainless wire and you're set for years. It don't leave any sharp protruding barb and holds fast as any hose clamp. There's tons of vids how to make one.
Interesting. I had a nice commercial grade hose which i drove over and damaged the male end. I was looking for repair options and everyone kept refering me to those jakey barb fitting and hose clamp garbage as the only diy solution. As it was a fairly expensive hose and i used it on my construction sites, i didnt want garbage repair. After holding onto it for a couple of years, a friend suggested i take it to my local hydroulic hose shop for a nice pressed on fitting.
I did that. Got a nice quality brass fitting which looks totally factory professional. It took less than 3 mins and cost about $7 or $8. The guy told me to bring in any damaged hoses in the future and he'd be happy to do the same again.
wow, that is a spectacular resource to have close to home! A Good 100 ft hose can easily get upwards of $100 or more, fixing an end for less than $10 in a few min is a no brainer!
@@turfmechanicgardens ya, I presume most mid sized towns would have such a shop. My nearby town is not quite 40k population and has a decent amount of industry but not a huge amount.
This shop supports a lot of construction contractors who maybe own dozers and such, tractors, etc, who need hydraulic hoses without going to dealers.
Another inexpensive solution (after making or buying the tool) is a wire clamp. A couple of feet of wire and a tool to tighten it as a clamp and it is a cheap, clean and snag-free solution for hose repair. I have the branded Clamptite version but homemade versions work as well. Search youtube for wire clamp tool.
You can also get band or pinch clamps, just need a plier type tool to set them, no sharp edges.
I wish they made 3/4” hose fittings 😢
I am into repairing things but after watching all the steps, tools and supplies involved. I would say frankly it is not worth my time and money. Thank you for the entertainment clip.
at least there's the entertainment factor at play :D thanks for the watch
Would love to see a video on which garden hose u prefer! Have u tried the Eley hose? I’m sick of my kinked old hose and wondering if the eley is worth it, but it’s soo expensive!
I did my first Eley repair this week. Granted a bit costly, but the fittings are very good quality and the repair is so much better than anything else I have tried. If I can keep my hose another season or two, then the connectors pay for themselves. I am satisfied with the solution.
That's what it's really about, being satisfied with the repair. The $5 repair with hose clamps works for some but this repair makes so much more sense for me too. Thanks for the watch and thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Thanks for making the video, I’m always looking for better hose ends 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
so glad people are watching this one. I've bought those fittings a month ago and haven't gotten to the garden reno. I almost just did the repair without filming it for simplicity. I hope this video helps open more people's eyes to some of the more premium alternatives
Tip for the pipe clamp: use a piece of heat shrink of suitable size and heat it after tightening the hose clamp down. Adding a layer of heat shrink over the band itself helps to protect the heat shrink that goes over the clamp from tearing against sharp surfaces. Also means you can do this with a wire tie and the barbed stem if you really want to go low profile. Using true stainless wire means a long-lasting seal.
Man I wish I could see a visual demo of what you are suggesting. I can't visualize your description in my head right now. Possibly, can you redefine?
@@turfmechanicgardens he's using two pieces of heat shrink. One goes over the end of the hose clamp - the part that likes to scratch you. The other piece goes over the hose and the entire hose clamp.
Very cool! I was not familiar with the ELEY solution and agree with you on all points. Love how their fittings are more rugged. How smooth does the female end turn (or does it spin at all)? That is a weak point in every solution I've tried (aside from the hose clamp issue). Any chance you've been using this solution for enough time to provide insights on it's durability?
Nice video! Eley makes high quality hose equipment to make our lives easier.
One of my favorites is their swivel with shutoff valve, it's an obvious item that every band makes but it has performed so well for me over the past 13 months. Anyway, I just hope they eventually expand some products into the 3/4 size hoses
Unfortunately, quality costs, and many of their products are priced out of the range of homeowners looking for 'affordable' fixes. I think buying a new hose might be a better look better by comparison. I bought 300' of "life time guaranteed" thick rubber hoses twenty years ago for about $28 per 100', and just recently four of the eight hose ends have gone bad. I doubt if I can cost-justify buying Eley products at my advanced age. Also, the diameter of my current heavy rubber hoses is too thick for the Eley connector, I think.
For those cheap repairs I wrap them with electrical tape. It softens the sharpe edges and creates a much better end for handling.
That's a great idea...and if the tape gets old and frayed then you just swap the tape. Thanks for the suggestion!
I have a hose that expanded in the heat and with water pressure. I just can't seem to get a clamshell connector to work to seal it and I'm lucky if the screws even reach enough to bite on the other side. The hose clamp option isn't going to work well, also because of the swelling of the hose. Not sure what I can do about this. If I use really hot water, I'd have to "shrink" the diameter and circumference of the hose and I'm not sure how to do that.
Learned something new. I just reuse the original end pieces. I strip off the outer metal shroud and the hose remnants and reuse the center section with a stainless steel hose clamp. Be careful some places intermingle hose clamps and sometimes mislabel them as stainless. Regular metal screws will rust and lose tension on the clamp.
How do you reuse the center section? Do you heat up the hose somehow to make it pliable like I mention boiling or some other way?
Thank$ a lot for your nice info-clip and take care!
Thanks, have yourself a great fall season too! 😊
Put lock tight on the screws and they never come loose
I have some old hoses that pex crimp rings work on
The hard part about fixing a hose is jamming the end part into the hose. This tool fixes that. Of course so does a hair drier and some Vaseline. If the vinyl is really stiff you can stretch it after heating by forcing needle nose pliers into it.
I've gone to the plastic connectors for one reason. Brass can be eroded by a water leak. I ruined a brand new Craftsman hose in 30 minutes because I did not realize it was working. The erosion happened on the flat end of the male connector and was visible to the naked eye. After that no amount of tightening would seal it, even against an O-ring. So I had to cut the end off of my brand new hose. It was a Craftsman, so I could have returned it for a new hose, but Sears was a long trip away. The plastic ends will not hold up to driving over them, but I've had excellent success with them for the last 20 years.
I switched to all brass connectors and love them. The plastic ones crack from sun exposure after just a few seasons.
You can dress the brass end to solve minor imperfections that prevent sealing. Usually though, a good hose washer (I prefer silicone rubber) will seal even fairly substantial imperfections when done up hand tight.
@@Sylvan_dB You can repair the male end of a solid brass fitting with a file. You cannot dress imperfections or damages to a female fitting.
@@dchall8 The seal is between the male end and the washer. As you said, "The erosion happened on the flat end of the male connector" so it could easily be smoothed out.
I like Eley stuff (I have their hose reel which is still going strong after 10 years), but some of it is cost prohibitive. This is an example. Unless the hose is a super high quality commercial hose, I couldn’t see spending this kind of money repairing it. Thanks for letting us know these are available though.
Do u have their garden hose as well? Is it worth it?
@@FixItWithMe I do not as I have a 30-year-old Craftsman rubber hose that shows no signs of quitting (or kinking!). I'm sure it's fantastic, but I haven't had the need to invest.
@@mooch91 I have two Craftsman black rubber hoses bought in 2014. They are still going strong, outlasting several rounds of Ace Hardware and Costco "lifetime warranty" hoses that never seem to have a usable warranty.
Even with those I would hesitate putting on $25 of replacement hose ends.
@@1djbecker Other than the fact that they mark everything they touch, including your hands. :)
My wife and 6 girlfriends say my hose works perfectly
You've obvious got one of the good ones! Jealous 😛
Hmmm would a bit of electrician's tape stop it snagging/scratching maybe
The best and cheapest hose repair option is the simple homemade wire clamp. 60cm of 1.5mm wire and you can make a tight low profile clamp that will never leak or budge in the slightest. They last forever with galvanized or stainless wire...10 or 20 cents per.
The Clamp-Tite style tool is simple to make, there are 100s of videos making these out of scrap or cheap hardware.
I will say those new hose ends seem nice, very premium.
The worm drive clamps are the worst though. And the clunky big philips screw ones, just no.
I wouldn't _make_ a Clamp-Tite style tool. I tried and gave up. To do it right requires a lathe and a milling machine; it is cheaper and easier to just buy the tools from Clamp-Tite. That said, I agree with the cost-effectiveness of a wire clamp made on the spot. I have repaired a number of garden hoses with stainless steel safety wire using my Clamp-Tite. The repairs in some cases have outperformed the factory end fittings and they're cheaper by far than the Eley tool and fittings shown in this video.
I admit I've never even thought about repairing hoses before.
Dead serious, it never crossed my mind that this was possible in the first 15 years of my adult life. It's one of those "Millennial skills" we call adulting that wasn't passed on to me.
@@turfmechanicgardens What have we come to? I repaired my first hose in 1965. My dad was a serious DIYer no matter what it was. About the only thing he didn't DIY was our swimming pool. But he did DIY the concrete decking and retaining wall around it.
Thats what she said
If i was going to put on $22 worth of brand new high grade fittings, i would not do it on a garbage low grade short hose i dug up out of the ground which wasnt good enough to have quality fittings to begin with. Id go buy some brand new quality hose material to put those fittings on. The hose tubing is the cheapest part of any hose, so buying new tubing instead of using old tubing would be very worthy with these type fittings.
These fittings would be very good on a quality hose for a needed repair. But most all of my commercial grade hoses are 3/4" so these likely wouldnt work for my application. I love to buy quality tools, but im not sure its worthy to spend so much to put this good of fittings on junk grade of hoses. Thats almost like buying real gold buttons to sew on a cheap suit from walmart.
Thanks for sharing this repair option.
I can't argue with anything you said in this comment. I wish their stuff worked with the bigger 3/4" hoses and yep, at least putting these fittings on high quality 5/8 hoses makes way more sense than on lower quality light duty hoses. In terms of video production, this was the hose at had at the moment to do my demonstration on, but it makes much more sense to use these tools and fittings on high quality hoses that need to be trimmed or repaired.
@@turfmechanicgardens ok, got it. Well your demonstration was effective so it accomplished the goal. And for that, I understand sometimes you spend more money than what a thing is worth just for the educational or training value. Thanks again.
Just wrap the screw clamp with electrical tape problem solved , next!!!
I just buy a new hose…
wrap some duct tape around clamp - save your hands and rust
That's a good idea, I'll do that on that rusty hose for sure
$27 plus shipping for ONE hose end? Title of this video should be "Don't Overpay for Bogus Hose Repair!" A hose clamp and shrink wrap work perfectly!
Lol, I said a hose clamp is the cheapest...is it the most desirable however, probably only for people looking for the cheapest option. 🫤
Dude, why did you waste 12 minutes making a 2 minute video? What a waste.
extreme close up is creepy...
Nobody should see a closeup of my face...that was my bad lol 😆
A 12 minute video to fix a garden hose? Someone likes to hear himself talk!
The repair cost as much as a new hose 👎👎👎👎
Good hoses, especially the long ones, cost way more than this. It's a premium repair that still costs way less than the purchase of a new premium hose.