Brewing Master

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Angela, although Home Depot and Canadian Tire are great, they only carry what is popular and sells fast.  Lots of lumber like shiplap and other hardware items are not carried.  Phone a few plumbing places in the yellow pages and tell them what you want.   You will find it.  I have old taps in this 50 year old shack and I have hoses that attach to the taps.  Good Luck.

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I did this many years ago. You need a good hardware or plumbing supply to help you.  Take the aerator off the faucet, and match that thread.  This will give you the proper size. If I remember correctly, the fitting I ended up using was an adaptor originally used for small apartment washing machines which are used in conjunction with the kitchen sink. Good luck.  Wacko!

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – i have a LOT of plants on the 19th floor balcony of my apartment. since i work at 7:00 am, i’m out watering every morning at 5:00. but last Christmas i broke my right arm and did severe tendon and ligament damage that took over 6 months to heal.  i still have trouble using the arm and hauling water every day doesn’t help.  if i only fill the watering can halfway, i’m going back and forth several times and takes me half an hour or more to get everything done. i was able to get a long coiling hose on sale yesterday that could cut down on my watering time, if only i could attach it to my kitchen faucet.  i thought i had found the right size of coupling, but it’s still too big for the kitchen sink even though it does fit the 3/4" hose. has anyone tried this successfully? thank you. angela — http://webhome.idirect.com/~rouquinne/

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I see you’ve got it covered.  I was going to suggest a store that sells camping supplies.  They have something called "water thief" to hook a hose to an unthreaded spigot. Marilyn in Ohio

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thank you, everyone. i was *sure* Home Depot would have such an animal, but they didn’t.  nor did the big Canadian chains – Canadian Tire, Home Hardware and Rona! i finally found one today…  at the home-brewing store!  thank you, tomas, for that suggestion. angela — http://webhome.idirect.com/~rouquinne/

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Any *good* hardware store will have this. Tell them you want it to have ‘fine’ aerator threads female and coarse washing machine or garden hose male threads on the other. **But** here is something to consider: Having done this a few times, I can tell you that your faucet needs to be high quality and in good condition. Make sure the threads on the faucet are very clean and not corroded or cracked, chipped and etc. If it is a cheap unit, they will wear with constant screwing and unscrewing. Also, try first to connect the hose and open the sprayer into the sink until all air is dispersed then shut it off and see if the faucet leaks around the knobs or where the spigot attaches to the unit as opposed to finding out it leaked while you were outside. Have a towel in your other hand when you try this, and *always* lay one over the entire piece, ends of towel hanging into the sink, so that, if it were to start leaking eventually, the water would run down into the sink instead of across the kitchen counter soaking this morning’s unopened mail or upward onto that new acoustic tile ceiling. Many kitchen sink valve stems were not designed for back pressure. If you are not worried about aesthetics, some places sell cheap plastic adapters that you can use to snap garden hoses on and off. These will enable you to fit the click-on to the above mentioned adapter so that you do not have to keep unscrewing and rescrewing the hose (it seems like no matter how hard you try to only unscrew the hose part of the fitting, the faucet end is what comes loose and results in the aforementioned constant beating up on the fine threads). Those fine threads are easily cross-threaded too. If you have a utility tub near the door somewhere, this faucet may be a better spot, but this set-up works fine if you are careful at first. ralph — post or lose an ‘n’ to reply

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – i have a LOT of plants on the 19th floor balcony of my apartment. since i work at 7:00 am, i’m out watering every morning at 5:00. but last Christmas i broke my right arm and did severe tendon and ligament damage that took over 6 months to heal.  i still have trouble using the arm and hauling water every day doesn’t help.  if i only fill the watering can halfway, i’m going back and forth several times and takes me half an hour or more to get everything done. i was able to get a long coiling hose on sale yesterday that could cut down on my watering time, if only i could attach it to my kitchen faucet.  i thought i had found the right size of coupling, but it’s still too big for the kitchen sink even though it does fit the 3/4" hose. has anyone tried this successfully? thank you. angela — http://webhome.idirect.com/~rouquinne/

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has anyone tried this successfully? thank you. angela

I brew beer in the kitchen and found a faucet aerator adapter for my cooling coils. http://www.cornerhardware.com/hardware/iteminfo.html?action=iteminfo&…

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Waterbed Store. Guaranteed to be there. Bill C.  :o)`

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – i have a LOT of plants on the 19th floor balcony of my apartment. since i work at 7:00 am, i’m out watering every morning at 5:00. but last Christmas i broke my right arm and did severe tendon and ligament damage that took over 6 months to heal.  i still have trouble using the arm and hauling water every day doesn’t help.  if i only fill the watering can halfway, i’m going back and forth several times and takes me half an hour or more to get everything done. i was able to get a long coiling hose on sale yesterday that could cut down on my watering time, if only i could attach it to my kitchen faucet.  i thought i had found the right size of coupling, but it’s still too big for the kitchen sink even though it does fit the 3/4" hose. has anyone tried this successfully? thank you. angela — http://webhome.idirect.com/~rouquinne/

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There are several faucet adapters available at: http://www.landscapeusa.com/category.asp?MainCat=Watering&SubCat=Coup… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – i have a LOT of plants on the 19th floor balcony of my apartment. since i work at 7:00 am, i’m out watering every morning at 5:00. but last Christmas i broke my right arm and did severe tendon and ligament damage that took over 6 months to heal.  i still have trouble using the arm and hauling water every day doesn’t help.  if i only fill the watering can halfway, i’m going back and forth several times and takes me half an hour or more to get everything done. i was able to get a long coiling hose on sale yesterday that could cut down on my watering time, if only i could attach it to my kitchen faucet.  i thought i had found the right size of coupling, but it’s still too big for the kitchen sink even though it does fit the 3/4" hose. has anyone tried this successfully? thank you. angela

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i have a LOT of plants on the 19th floor balcony of my apartment. since i work at 7:00 am, i’m out watering every morning at 5:00. but last Christmas i broke my right arm and did severe tendon and ligament damage that took over 6 months to heal.  i still have trouble using the arm and hauling water every day doesn’t help.  if i only fill the watering can halfway, i’m going back and forth several times and takes me half an hour or more to get everything done. i was able to get a long coiling hose on sale yesterday that could cut down on my watering time, if only i could attach it to my kitchen faucet.  i thought i had found the right size of coupling, but it’s still too big for the kitchen sink even though it does fit the 3/4" hose. has anyone tried this successfully? thank you. angela — http://webhome.idirect.com/~rouquinne/

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