Pressure washer snapped hose quick connector
On 23/03/2020 19:52, Tim+ wrote:
On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 9:00:53 PM UTC, wrote:
Tim+ was thinking very hard :
I think it is just a €śstandard€ť Hoselock type connector. Theyre made by
many people these days though and there will be small differences in
€śnon-critical€ť dimensions.
I have several of the usual size, one which is bigger and almost
tightens.
Why not buy a brass one? Unlikely to break again and probably has a larger
internal bore.
I have a brass Hozelock version which has a too small internal thread.
Well now, whilst stumbling around my garage I found my old Karcher and had a look at the water input thread. Well I couldnt see it properly with the hoselock connector on it so I tried to unscrew it.
Too tight to remove by hand so I got out a pump spanner. It *seemed* to be unscrewing but actually all the threads were stripping off the plastic fitting. F*ck!
Fortunately I have few standard hoselock adaptors kicking around and whaddaya know, it just screwed straight on tightened up properly.
Of course my machine may not be the same as yours but I cant see why they wouldnt use standard garden hose adaptors on the inlet.
Tim
My Chinese electric and petrol ones certainly do.
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