Hose link fittings as seen on tv

[jetcrew]

Anyone used these ? I reckon I buy about 50 hose fittings a year from buntings and the dog must trade them with the aliens or something cause I never have any good ones left.

Jet

[KingBilly]

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[D4D]

My neighbour swears by them, personally I use brass tap fittings and Hozelock accessories.

[LC]

I've seen them on TV as well - apparently they can be used to tow your 4wd as well - does this make them multipurpose!

[muzza01]

Next door neighbour has used them for a few Years now and he is happy with them.  We have very good water pressure here.  My mrs breaks our fittings all of the time. Don't ask me how.  We live on an acre and have 6 hoses so I know what you mean.  Even the nylon bits on the brass fittings break.  I buy the orange nylex brands mostly, they seem to last the longest.  I have thought about buying hose link, they are expensive but they work well.

[cruisindub]

Thy look good.

Unfortunately, they are a bit too pricy and I'll put up with a leaking tap fitting,  till the numbers come up.

[prodigyrf]

They are very good with positive sealing and the Orings don't perish and split like they do on the male click on fittings on your taps now, because the Hoselink tap O rings face downwards and are shaded from the sun. The equivalent quality alternatives are Nylex Gardena or Neta Brass with the rest being cheap crap but you soon work out they're false economy and always fail when you least want them to after leaking like sieves.

Buy the full hose kits with nozzle or adjustable spray head and get an extra fitting to make up a short hose adapter(about a foot longhose piece) to a click on female fitting so you can use it elsewhere (the lad has click on male to flush his Seadoo for example). Yes they may pull a car in a straight line but just be aware heavy sideways yanking on the tap end can break the hose tube spigot off inside the fitting when the usual heavy handed suspects have no bloody common sense whatsoever. I use them with top knitted hose now because you grow out of cheap disposable hose and undoing the kinks.

I bought a couple of sets one with nozzle and one with adjustable spray and after a year or so the adjustable trigger spray was sticky and not shutting off properly and just as I was grumbling about the crummy thing I got an email from Hoselink asking if i had trouble with that item. Answered yes and they sent me a new one pronto as apparently some weren't made up to standard (brass internal valve but the spring was cad plated steel instead of their marine grade SS steel. I also mentioned I'd had one fitting break and they sent me a new one with spare Orings with it. They clearly value their good name and customer satisfaction and I've had no probs since in over a year or 2. 

[muzza01]

Yes they may pull a car in a straight line but just be aware heavy sideways yanking on the tap end can break the hose tube spigot off inside the fitting when the usual heavy handed suspects have no bloody common sense whatsoever.

So we can still use them to tow with like they do on the TV ad  What other brand of hose fitting has dual roles.  You can fill up your water tank on the trailer and use it on a recovery. GOLD

[JGM]

I have had 2 of their non kink hoses with their fittings for about 2 years and they are great.

We dropped one of the hose end spray attachments and it broke a plastic part on it.  I ordered a new one and the piece that broke on the old one is now brass.
The fittings themselves are great, will not come apart accidently and cannot blow off.  The hose itself has been in the sun in Queensland for about 2 years and it still looks like new, no sign at all of perishing.  And the hose will not kink.

Worth the money I recon!

Cheers
JGM

[jasransm]

Can't beat them, all my taps are fitted with them.
Cheers
Jas

[Bird]

best couplings I've seen are the Storz couplings we changed to from screw fittings in the RFS
shame you cant get them small enough

[dazzler]

While on the subject of hoses is there one you really drive over every day without killing it?

[prodigyrf]

While on the subject of hoses is there one you really drive over every day without killing it?

Knitted high quality hose will certainly take some punishment up to a point and here's an Aussie made example-
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/KNITTED-GARDEN-WATERING-HOSE-12mm-x-30m-ANTI-KINK-/280656178046

[JU5T1N]

We used to get the Hose Link fittings from our local hardware. No long avalable there anymore, only available via their web site.

For:

• no leaks what so ever
• no more hose exploding off the fittings (even with hammering shut offs by machines

Against:

• when those that have never used these 1/4 turn disconnecting/connecting fittings & reef down and force them apart they usually break them and dont tell you about it

[Bird]

So, does anyone use these setups these days? garden hose is intercoursed, and need to replace it.. .

[Nomad]

Brass. But when the bottom plastic on the screw on bit dies I use a screw on hose clamp. Just about unbreakable......at least at my house where my mrs breaks the plastic ones all the time.

[D4D]

I've got 3 of these around the house in various lengths and they are doing ok. We have high pressure so if I turn the tap on too much they blow off. Other than that no problem.
http://www.bunnings.com.au/holman-20m-retractable-hose-reel-with-spray-gun_p3110524

[Bird]

I've got 3 of these around the house in various lengths and they are doing ok. We have high pressure so if I turn the tap on too much they blow off. Other than that no problem.
http://www.bunnings.com.au/holman-20m-retractable-hose-reel-with-spray-gun_p3110524

Our water pressure here is weaker than a flea crying... I can stick a drill on the tap handle, and tis still shyte

[D4D]

They'll be perfect then

Once you use a retractable hose you won't use anything else.

[Bird]

these are on sale...
https://www.masters.com.au/product/100675380/zee-mirtoon-garden-hose-reel-pink-10m/   

[D4D]

If you're going to Masters, I'd suggest these. Although at twice the price of the Holman I couldn't see the value.
https://www.masters.com.au/product/100080247/hozelock-auto-hose-reel-20m

[Bird]

If you're going to Masters, I'd suggest these. Although at twice the price of the Holman I couldn't see the value.
https://www.masters.com.au/product/100080247/hozelock-auto-hose-reel-20m

yea saw them... just looked at their site hoping Id have a reason to go there one day

$200> Its only a garden hose!!!

[muzza01]

Sometimes I wish I could ban my Mrs from using the hose. I don't know how she breaks the male quick connect on the taps. Doesn't matter if they are plastic or brass she wrecks both. The knots she puts in the hose sometimes....I asked her a while ago if she was taking the piss, I couldn't put that many knots in a hose if I tried. Sometimes they should be just kept in the kitchen 

[jwb]

Good one muzza01

[Temora140]

Sometimes I wish I could ban my Mrs from using the hose. I don't know how she breaks the male quick connect on the taps. Doesn't matter if they are plastic or brass she wrecks both. The knots she puts in the hose sometimes....I asked her a while ago if she was taking the piss, I couldn't put that many knots in a hose if I tried. Sometimes they should be just kept in the kitchen 

Muzza, either drive in a post next to the tap or wrap the hose around something a couple times, that way she has to pull the hose against the post not against the tap fitting. I used to break heaps as you always try to get that last little bit out of the hose length.
I love the hoselink fittings, have had them for at least 5 or 6 years now, broken two, doing exactly what Muzza's other half does. No leaks no fuss. Mate owns a nursery and has them on all of his hoses and taps, he was the one who put me onto them.