| Joe Dokes <cdcd9fdb42b2fe0ab7ec90c5f2fad801@example.com>: Mar 05 03:01AM I think it's the faucet threads that are the concern, not those of the hose. The anti backflow piece that's been required on outside faucets have a set screw that rusts/corrodes and cannot be removed and then the backflow piece with the setscrew galls the faucet's threads when coming off the faucet, which is necessary to repair or replace the useless backflow device, after time. -- For full context, visit https://www.homeownershub.com/maintenance/what-is-the-exact-tap-die-size-for-a-usa-garden-hose-threa-458832-.htm |
| "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>: Mar 05 07:20AM -0500 "Joe Dokes" wrote in message news:166953141a701101$1$1096661$4626d873@news.newsgroupdirect.com... I think it's the faucet threads that are the concern, not those of the hose. The anti backflow piece that's been required on outside faucets have a set screw that rusts/corrodes and cannot be removed and then the backflow piece with the setscrew galls the faucet's threads when coming off the faucet, which is necessary to repair or replace the useless backflow device, after time. -- For full context, visit https://www.homeownershub.com/maintenance/what-is-the-exact-tap-die-size-for-a-usa-garden-hose-threa-458832-.htm --------------------------- https://dengarden.com/gardening/The-Complete-Guide-to-Hose-Fittings 1 1/16 is one and one sixteenth inch, not eleven sixteenths. Can you drill out the setscrew and clean up burred faucet threads with a small triangular file? Although they aren't required here I use those screw-on check valves to prevent backflow from sun-heated hoses but I remove the setscrew, and take them off in winter so the faucet can drain and not freeze and burst (again). I put brass quick connects on the check valve and hose ends so disconnecting the hose doesn't unscrew the valve. Just in case, the first short hose section at the faucet is rated for drinking water. |
| micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>: Mar 05 02:54PM -0500 In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 5 Mar 2021 07:20:15 -0500, "Jim Wilkins" >freeze and burst (again). I put brass quick connects on the check valve and >hose ends so disconnecting the hose doesn't unscrew the valve. Just in case, >the first short hose section at the faucet is rated for drinking water. What is this backflow stuff? If you're water supply is never interrupted, why would anything flow backwards. And if it flow backwards, is it going to be more than an inch or two? It's 8 feet from my garden faucet to the main cold water pipe. How is the water ever going to flow back 8 feet. And if it does, it will get diluted by the incoming clean water. And then what are the odds I'll drink it, rather than flush the toilet, take a shower, or wash the dishes? And if you do get a little garden hose poison, it will build up your resistance? Like with snake poison. Who has not drunk out of the garden hose already? |
| Tekkie© <Tekkie@comcast.net>: Mar 05 04:48PM -0500 On Fri, 05 Mar 2021 14:54:01 -0500, micky posted for all of us to digest... > And if you do get a little garden hose poison, it will build up your > resistance? Like with snake poison. > Who has not drunk out of the garden hose already? It's called siphon. The overlords don't that water going back into the public water supply. -- Tekkie |
| "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>: Mar 06 09:19AM +1100 "micky" <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote in message news:mm254gdj1f5dkugo0urbv3a02lnurk02sg@4ax.com... >>the first short hose section at the faucet is rated for drinking water. > What is this backflow stuff? If you're > water supply is never interrupted, But they all can be occasionally. > why would anything flow backwards. > And if it flow backwards, is it going to be more than an inch or two? It can be enough to get all sorts of shit into the water supply, for others. > It's 8 feet from my garden faucet to the main cold water pipe. > How is the water ever going to flow back 8 feet. When they have repair a blown water line etc. > And if it does, it will get diluted by the incoming clean water. Yes, but its very undesirable with some stuff in the water supply. > And then what are the odds I'll drink it, rather than > flush the toilet, take a shower, or wash the dishes? Yes, the risk isnt great, but its more than zero. > And if you do get a little garden hose poison, It isnt just garden hose poison that's possible. > it will build up your resistance? Like with snake poison. Or can kill you. > Who has not drunk out of the garden hose already? It isnt just garden hose undesirables. |
| "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>: Mar 05 05:26PM -0500 "micky" wrote in message news:mm254gdj1f5dkugo0urbv3a02lnurk02sg@4ax.com... In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 5 Mar 2021 07:20:15 -0500, "Jim Wilkins" >hose ends so disconnecting the hose doesn't unscrew the valve. Just in >case, >the first short hose section at the faucet is rated for drinking water. What is this backflow stuff? If you're water supply is never interrupted, why would anything flow backwards. And if it flow backwards, is it going to be more than an inch or two? It's 8 feet from my garden faucet to the main cold water pipe. How is the water ever going to flow back 8 feet. And if it does, it will get diluted by the incoming clean water. And then what are the odds I'll drink it, rather than flush the toilet, take a shower, or wash the dishes? And if you do get a little garden hose poison, it will build up your resistance? Like with snake poison. Who has not drunk out of the garden hose already? ---------------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backflow_prevention_device "Water pressure may fail or be reduced when a water main bursts, pipes freeze, or there is unexpectedly high demand on the water system (for example, when several fire hydrants are opened)." |
| "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>: Mar 06 09:30AM +1100 "Tekkie©" <Tekkie@comcast.net> wrote in message news:AGx0I.241580$MT.136519@fx35.iad... > It's called siphon. The overlords don't that water going back into the > public > water supply. For quite good reasons. |
| "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>: Mar 05 05:58PM -0500 "Rod Speed" wrote in message news:iafp2vFdee9U1@mid.individual.net... "micky" <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote in message news:mm254gdj1f5dkugo0urbv3a02lnurk02sg@4ax.com... > What is this backflow stuff? If you're > water supply is never interrupted, But they all can be occasionally. -------------------------- Personally I've seen and rearranged a garden hose submerged in a swimming pool to refill it in the spring, to raise the level high enough to filter out the leaf debris, dead bugs, bird crap and green algae. The owner had covered the pool but a seam ripped. |
| bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net>: Mar 05 11:05PM > <muratlanne@gmail.com> wrote: >>Can you drill out the setscrew and clean up burred faucet threads with a >>small triangular file? At least on mine it was easier to use a fine saw to notch the backflow preventer on either side of the setscrew and then break out the screw. The body is brass and not very strong, the screws are relatively hard. The saw cuts did no substantial harm to the faucet, the setscrew galling was minimal and easy to file out. hth, bob prohaska |
| Peeler <trolltrap@valid.invalid>: Mar 06 12:13AM +0100 "Rod Speed is an entirely modern phenomenon. Essentially, Rod Speed is an insecure and worthless individual who has discovered he can enhance his own self-esteem in his own eyes by playing "the big, hard man" on the InterNet." https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/rod-speed-faq.2973853/ -- Norman Wells addressing trolling senile Rodent: "Ah, the voice of scum speaks." MID: <g4t0jtFrknaU1@mid.individual.net> |
| anthona <harri85274@aol.com>: Mar 05 08:02AM -0800 On Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 7:37:08 PM UTC-5, Leo Isenteze wrote: > Looking at online prices a 16 oz box is $2.16 at Walmart, $2.19 at > meijer, $2.64 at HEB and $2.89 at Target. > $4.63 a box sounds like the corner bodega not a supermarket. You had to put a zinger in there, didn't you. Feel better now? For your information that price I paid for the Premium "Saltine" crackers was from my local supermarket. |
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