Can anyone help me find one of these or recommend something else that will fit, a standard screw on garden tap connector doesn't?
Having lent the Karcher to someone it came back with the hose connector bit and it's pretty useless without it.
The bit that protrudes from the Karcher is male and approx 1" in diameter.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Brendan.

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Rednadnerb wrote:
Can anyone help me find one of these or recommend something else that
will fit, a standard screw on garden tap connector doesn't?

There's more than one "standard" tap connector - or there used to be. New
ones usually come with a couple of adaptors to allow a choice of thread.

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On 13/04/2014 15:00, Rednadnerb wrote:
Can anyone help me find one of these or recommend something else that will fit, a standard screw on garden tap connector doesn't?
Having lent the Karcher to someone it came back with the hose connector bit and it's pretty useless without it.
The bit that protrudes from the Karcher is male and approx 1" in diameter.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Brendan.

Do you mean the connector where to water goes in or out?

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On 13/04/2014 15:00, Rednadnerb wrote:
Can anyone help me find one of these or recommend something else that will fit, a standard screw on garden tap connector doesn't?
Having lent the Karcher to someone it came back with the hose connector bit and it's pretty useless without it.
The bit that protrudes from the Karcher is male and approx 1" in diameter.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Brendan.

How are you defining 'standard' tap connector. All the Karchers I've
seen have a male 3/4" BSP thread onto which a 3/4" tap connector screws
quite happily. Don't be put off by the fact that the actual size of a
3/4" fitting is nearer to 1" because 3/4" is the nominal ID.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...e_thread_sizes

Maybe your taps have smaller threads - 1/2" BSP or even 5/8" BSP and
maybe that's what you're calling 'standard' - but get a fitting which is
3/4" BSP and it should be fine.
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On 13/04/2014 16:01, Roger Mills wrote:
On 13/04/2014 15:00, Rednadnerb wrote:
Can anyone help me find one of these or recommend something else that
will fit, a standard screw on garden tap connector doesn't?
Having lent the Karcher to someone it came back with the hose
connector bit and it's pretty useless without it.
The bit that protrudes from the Karcher is male and approx 1" in
diameter.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Brendan.

How are you defining 'standard' tap connector. All the Karchers I've
seen have a male 3/4" BSP thread onto which a 3/4" tap connector screws
quite happily. Don't be put off by the fact that the actual size of a
3/4" fitting is nearer to 1" because 3/4" is the nominal ID.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...e_thread_sizes

Maybe your taps have smaller threads - 1/2" BSP or even 5/8" BSP and
maybe that's what you're calling 'standard' - but get a fitting which is
3/4" BSP and it should be fine.

That's what I can't work out either. I wonder if the OP means the
outlet - which would be M22.



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On 13/04/2014 16:18, The Medway Handyman wrote:
On 13/04/2014 16:01, Roger Mills wrote:
On 13/04/2014 15:00, Rednadnerb wrote:
Can anyone help me find one of these or recommend something else that
will fit, a standard screw on garden tap connector doesn't?
Having lent the Karcher to someone it came back with the hose
connector bit and it's pretty useless without it.
The bit that protrudes from the Karcher is male and approx 1" in
diameter.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Brendan.

How are you defining 'standard' tap connector. All the Karchers I've
seen have a male 3/4" BSP thread onto which a 3/4" tap connector screws
quite happily. Don't be put off by the fact that the actual size of a
3/4" fitting is nearer to 1" because 3/4" is the nominal ID.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...e_thread_sizes

Maybe your taps have smaller threads - 1/2" BSP or even 5/8" BSP and
maybe that's what you're calling 'standard' - but get a fitting which is
3/4" BSP and it should be fine.

That's what I can't work out either. I wonder if the OP means the outlet
- which would be M22.




I don't think so - else he'd be missing the pressure hose and trigger
gubbins. I took the fact that he mentioned garden hose fittings to mean
that he was talking about the inlet (low pressure) side.
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Yes, it's the inlet. Sorry I wasn't clear about that.
3/4" BSP is the bit of information that I was after, I can take that to the plumbers shop and ask them for something.
It does my head in, British Standard and metric, I thought that because Karcher was German that it would be metric.

I'll let you know.

Thanks.

On 13/04/2014 19:37, Rednadnerb wrote:
Yes, it's the inlet. Sorry I wasn't clear about that.
3/4" BSP is the bit of information that I was after, I can take that to the plumbers shop and ask them for something.
It does my head in, British Standard and metric, I thought that because Karcher was German that it would be metric.

I'll let you know.

Thanks.

Oddly enough, all pressure washers use 3/4" BSP. American, British,
German, Danish, Italian, Chinese.....

A Hozelock tap connector will fit - they are 3/4" BSP. Don't use the
'autostop' type.

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