Garden Hose seizing prevention

[Greatbear]

I avoid all aluminum hose ends, sticking with brass instead. Aluminum connectors, coupled with brass or other metals will corrode and seize in less than a year. I've had to cut off the original aluminum connectors to replace them with brass ones in order to stop this from happening. Problem is, brass connectors are getting more and more difficult to find, mainly due to the Prop 85 warnings. What looks like brass now is gold anodized aluminum. Junk.

 

[carbon]

I found this male garden hose thread (mght) to female garden hose thread (fght) adapter at Menards to mitigate the potential seizing problem.

https://www.menards.com/main/mainte...4431633464-c-8551.htm?tid=4175295248336435650

It's a Green Leaf i3434p Polypropylene adapter: http://green-leaf.us/products/adapter/780-adapter-34-mght-34-fght.html

****** hard to find! You need a rubber hose washer too. I bought two, one to connect to a brass hose end and the other to connect to a brass sprayer.

 

[danny_barkley]

I found this male garden hose thread (mght) to female garden hose thread (fght) adapter at Menards to mitigate the potential seizing problem.

https://www.menards.com/main/mainte...4431633464-c-8551.htm?tid=4175295248336435650

It's a Green Leaf i3434p Polypropylene adapter: http://green-leaf.us/products/adapter/780-adapter-34-mght-34-fght.html

****** hard to find! You need a rubber hose washer too. I bought two, one to connect to a brass hose end and the other to connect to a brass sprayer.

Thanx! I think I'll be sourcing some of these.

But...

I'm just noticing my Garden hoses are 5/8" and I can't find those...