How do you fix this fitting?

Today water came spraying out of the middle where the fitting rotates. Any idea how I can fix this?

New rubber washer in the end…that will help tighten the middle where it leaks.

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Probably just get a new fitting. It’s probably the flare on the inside that is bad. The rubber gasket keeps the water from coming out the side of the garden hose.

Not sure off hand what the mip size is, probably 3/4 mip to 3/4 ght.

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Wriggle it when you screw in the hose. It needs to fit snug. Do you use plumbers tape on all your junctions?

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Yep ^^. Needs some tape. New gasket. Should be good to go.

Daniel, go ahead and buy those extras - swivels, fittings, orings, gaskets, silicon tape, quick connects, ball valves, etc.

It helps " the rapid elimination of down time" as one industry pro likes to say. Also helps so that when it blows up in front of customer, you can be cool as a cucumber.
“Oh, time for a new gasket…” big smile…

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Oh, time for another shower! Big smile.

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I can’t see how the gasket is shot. He just bought it. It’s brand new

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True, could be kinked. Or not the problem at all. Hard to tell from that pic.

You’re right. Learning all this stuff is challenging to me cause I’m not a natural handyman.

I haven’t added anything to the initial setup, so however it came is how I’ve been using it. Most of the fittings do have that white tape on them (that’s plumber’s tape, I’m guessing?). The area of the leak doesn’t seem tapable though.

Your weakness can become your strength. I’m in the same boat as you.

Any way you could shoot a pic with it unscrewed? Or a vid in action?

As long as I don’t let my strengths become my weaknesses. (deep)

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Silicon tape is in the plumbing section of the box stores costs about 79 cents and is invaluable when dealing with plumbing.

Since you have the wfp, linger in the plumbing section of home depot. Their selection is usually better than Lowes. Better than either of them is Grainger.

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Honestly, I don’t know how to unscrew it, but I did re-upload the picture rotated to a clearer angle and circled the exact part where the leak happened.

It’s basically one of those fittings that makes screwing a hose in easier because it turns in the opposite direction. The rotation point is where the leak was, around the entire circumference.

Ok, i see now. This had happened to me too.

It actually could be the rubber washer.

Or the feed line was getting yanked around. Make sure your feed hose is always feeding straight in, not at an angle and that it is held fixed in some way.

When the garden hose is full of water, it’s heavy on your connection. If it gets moved around, it will put excessive stress on one side of the washer, pinching it, while pulling the other side away , causing your leak on that side In a single stream fashion.

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It could be what your plugging into may not be a solid fit. Happened to me playing around with some different hoses.

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Did you already get some channel locks and make sure that fitting is good and snug before turning the water on?

A hose could’ve gotten buggered up. It’s gotta be clean threads

No the threading wasn’t long enough so it prevented a snug fit which allowed water to leak out of that very part in the photo

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I’ve got one at my house that the hose thread got bent somehow and it wont screww all the way in.