The Whole Garage Catalogue: A Female/Female Garden Hose Quick-Disconnect

Monday, January 2, 2012

A Female/Female Garden Hose Quick-Disconnect

These things are the greatest invention since garden hose itself, although I don't use this configuration.

The fitting pictured screws onto a faucet, or onto the downstream end of a hose. There's a check-valve in the fitting; with no male quick-disconnect fitting inserted into the yellow end, the valve is closed. Inserting a male fitting forces the valve open, so a system can be left pressurized while attachment connections are made or unmade, just as in a compressed air supply system.

I don't care to leave faucets on and idle hoses pressurized though, so I don't make use of that feature of quick-diconnects; I rig hoses and attachments oppositely gendered, with no check-valve equipped fittings used.

I use a male quick-disconnect at the upstream supply points, and a female quick-disconnect at the downstream receiving points. It works for me.

Whichever way one chooses to arrange these things, they're a great convenience. With all one's hoses and attachments uniformly fitted with quick-disconnects, things like replacing a nozzle with a sprinkler are a zero-aggravation breeze.

I'll stash this item in my hose fittings bin. Perhaps some day I'll want to make use of the check-valve feature.

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Introduction

This blog is in honour of my deceased father, Nick Gaspick.

It sprang from what had started out as merely a post on my workshop blog, Rouge River Workshop. Here's my introduction to that post:

"My son has been clearing out my deceased father's garage, so he'll have a place to restore an old car, and he's been finding all manner of stuff. I've begun one post about an old woodworking vise that I mean to restore. This weekend, my son brought me four toolboxes full of items. As a small honour to my father, I'll 'catalogue' them in this post, in no particular order, little-by-little as I go through the boxes."

The nature of the post was for it to grow ever longer, and that can be dangerous. Blogger has some quirks that I've experienced in the past, and I was getting tired of always backing up the entire post so I wouldn't lose it should Blogger vapourize an editing session. I finally decided to make a full-blown blog with an index out of the post. Here it is.

I'll leave the original post as it is, where it is, but I'll bring over all the items in it so far as individual, indexed posts here as well. Needless to say, new material will only appear here.

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A Little About My Father:

My father emigrated to Canada with his family from Croatia at about the age of seven. His family took on a homestead up Sudbury, Ontario way, and made a living there through the great depression.

My father loved school, and yearned to continue his schooling past grade eight, but that was not on. He had to leave school to make a living -- trapping, mining, whatever. Eventually, he and his made their way to Toronto -- the big smoke in Canada.

My father was built like a brick shit-house; he was a sturdy guy, unlike scrawny me. My father was a guy who could clear an acre of Canadian bush before breakfast, have it tilled and planted before lunchtime, with the plants sprouting before dinnertime.

Jesus H. Christ!-- a guy like my father ought to have lived forever!