Bob Engelhardt wrote:

Robert Swinney wrote:
... repair of an outside faucet ... Suggestions please.

I suggest that you fasten a ball-valve hose shut off like this directly
to the faucet:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=7768871025
(I'd use a brass one).

Then turn the faucet on, leave it on and use the ball-valve to turn the
water on and off.

Bob

To add to that suggestion since this is a metalworking group - Take a
ball valve, the current frostproof sill cock and fabricate a hybrid
arrangement so that the current valve stem actuates the ball valve
feeding into the current feed pipe to the outside. Shouldn't take more
than an evening of work and will help reinforce the value of all those
expensive tools in the basement.

Pete C.