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  • From: Marty Kraft <martyk AT allspecies.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Leaking Hose
  • Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:34:44 -0500

The leaks i'm getting are between the screw on, threaded piece and the piece that fits on the end of the hose. When i put on new couplings the pressure pushes them off. It's hard to tighten the screws tight enough. I think i have been using Gilmore replacements. Other suggestions?

Marty
On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:26 AM, William H Shoemaker wrote:

I have volunteers who do work for me, sometimes using hoses. I’ve discovered some of them do things that will result in leaks in hose connections. Sometimes they don’t like the way the watering wand is positioned, so they’ll take it off and put it back on. They will sometimes cross the threads and there is no seal. Water leaks all over. Then, hoses today often come with plastic hose-end fittings. Once you cross them, they are hard to fit properly. They want to follow the new track created by the crossing of the threads. After time you just have to cut off the old fittings and buy replacements. Then you run into the situation where the replacement fitting isn’t installed properly and it leaks. I find my self repairing repair jobs sometimes. Then there are those folks who like to kink the hose to stop water flow. It’s easy! But it results in the hose wall breaking down and breaking open at the sharp points of the kinks. Sometimes this happens accidently, but when it is repeated the hose breaks down. There’s also the issue of letting pressure build up in those hoses. Often this happens when they are kinked or when the little swivel valves are put on the hose ends, just before a nozzle or wand. It is convenient to “turn off” the water right there. But then if it’s left that way for who knows how long, the pressure in the hose works on the fittings. If they’ve been kinked or if pressure is high, the integrity of seals just starts to break down.

 

When I was an undergrad I had a couple of projects in the University greenhouse. The greenhouse manager was a “drill sergeant” about how folks handled hoses. I didn’t like it but later I appreciated how important good hoses were and how good habits made a huge difference in how they worked and how long they lasted. Water under pressure is incredibly capable of discovering and exploiting weak points.

 

Bill

William H. Shoemaker

Sr. Research Specialist, Food Crops

University of Illinois - Crop Sciences

St Charles Horticulture Research Center

535 Randall Road, St Charles, IL, 60174

630-584-7254, FAX-584-4610

wshoemak AT illinois.edu


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of MAsteveINE
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 7:12 AM
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Leaking Hose

 

 

" leaks behind the couplings of garden  hoses?"

 

Are you meaning where rubber hose meets metal hose end, or

 

where the swivil part of the female end meets the metal end?

 

MAsteveINE

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