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Chuckster in NJ

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U SNOOZE U LOOSE!!
I have had some Craftsman items in my cart and stepped away for an hour only to have the "sale" prices change to the regular price once I got back.
Sears is getting very "slick" so you gotta act fast!
 
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I'm not sure the ambiguous title helped grab attention. maybe not

When they have sales on hoses, they usually follow each other pretty close. May not be the same size, but you will see another hose size 30-50% off I'm sure in the next few days
 
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Great hoses and price..but heavy. I draw the line at 50 footers. Heck I won't even buy a 100ft extension cord any more. Maybe I'm just getting old..:(
 
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Those used to be the best hoses on the market, but they changed the fittings.

They're now appreciably weaker and more prone to corrosion.
 
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How long ago did they change the fittings?
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Perhaps ten years ago. The new fittings are still better than most of the competition, but paired with that indestructible, elastic hose they become a weak link if you aren't paying attention.

They also can't handle as much pressure. In former days, the big, blocky brass fittings would actually hold fast in winter, leaving the hose to expand if the water began to freeze. The replacement fittings pop quickly in those situations.

I'm sure they've changed them again since last I bought one, but I'd be surprised if it was an improvement. The drop in quality when they were first altered was a vast plummet.

All that said, this is still the easiest way to buy a hose that is extremely resistant to kinking, and when it does happen, all you have to do is wiggle it a bit. Hell, I might pick one up. I get so sick and tired of that "Neverkink" hose kinking it's *** off that I can overlook the cheap fittings.
 
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bushmechanic said:
Perhaps ten years ago. The new fittings are still better than most of the competition, but paired with that indestructible, elastic hose they become a weak link if you aren't paying attention.

They also can't handle as much pressure. In former days, the big, blocky brass fittings would actually hold fast in winter, leaving the hose to expand if the water began to freeze. The replacement fittings pop quickly in those situations.

I'm sure they've changed them again since last I bought one, but I'd be surprised if it was an improvement. The drop in quality when they were first altered was a vast plummet.

All that said, this is still the easiest way to buy a hose that is extremely resistant to kinking, and when it does happen, all you have to do is wiggle it a bit. Hell, I might pick one up. I get so sick and tired of that "Neverkink" hose kinking it's *** off that I can overlook the cheap fittings.
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But if you are fortunate (lucky?) to have a Sears near you, can have these warrantied out pretty quickly. I do wonder how that will be handled when there aren't any around? not an item I would want to send in.
 
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I love my Sears hose I bought a few years ago. Hopefully I can snag another 50' or 2 before they go under.

How do they compare to the Flexzilla?
 
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Strange I believe I had one of these and all it did was kink up. I finally got tired of dealing with and trashed it. It was only a year old. Maybe I had a different model but it sucked.
 
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Strange I believe I had one of these and all it did was kink up. I finally got tired of dealing with and trashed it. It was only a year old. Maybe I had a different model but it sucked.
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They will fold over slightly more readily than a conventional hose, but they won't retain the kinked shape. It's also quick and easy to unfold any annoying loops; just yank and wiggle.

They're also less likely to scratch a car, but more likely to hang up on a tire when you're walking around that car. Likewise, you can run them over and stretch them all day long and they don't care (referring to the hose itself and the old fittings), but that same elasticity can make dragging one around fully extended a bit of a bear through thick grass.

Plenty of drawbacks to this kind of hose, but the benefits exceeded them for many years.

I'd have that over the competition any day of the week. Of course, if they switched materials in the actual hose at some point, my previous experience with them is entirely irrelevant.

Craftsman isn't the only flag under which you can buy a hexagonal rubber hose, though; so they're still out in the wild if you look hard enough. You just want to keep an eye out for comically bulky brass fittings. Find those, and you're in business.

To point out how things have changed, I bought my first one of these hoses in the late '90s, and several more after that. My hands were never blackened by them, regardless of how long they spent in the sun. The fittings never failed, either.

Ended up selling them before I went overseas... Came back, purchased more, and they lasted about a year before they were falling apart at each end and ******* water all over the place.

I should have known, and only bought one, because I could tell the second I picked the first one up that they'd dropped the quality shockingly on the fittings.
 
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