Brand doesn’t matter afaik.
They are simple metal parts so they’ll last forever, unlike the plastic ones.
The rubber seals and o-rings are standard parts that can be easily sourced and replaced.
Grease can help seal them, however it also attracts dirt so not ideal.

  • Badabinski@kbin.earth
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    3 months ago

    Eley makes the best garden hose quick connects on the market nowadays. They’re hideously expensive and can only be purchased through Eley’s website with slow shipping, but good god damn are they stout and reliable.

  • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I got brass hose fittings for my mom cause her plastics ones kept breaking and she loved them so much she got more for all of her hoses.

  • Dogyote@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Do they even make the 100% brass ball valve hose ends anymore? I can only find them with plastic valve handles.

  • David_Eight@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I personally find that anything made out of metal is always(almost) better than there plastic alternative. I used to work in plumbing in my youth, at some point in my plumbing career I started refusing to install faucets made of plastic because the customer would always call us back because it started leaking.

    • bluGill@fedia.io
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      3 months ago

      There are plastics better than metal - but they are not cheap, most looking for plastics look for cheap and so often anything plastic you can get is junk.

      I’m replacing my lead soldered copper with pex as I go.

  • Fermion@feddit.nlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I tried brass quick connect hose fittings but the ball bearings kept denting the brass and the fit got worse and worse.

    I replaced them with some stainless steel quick connect fittings I found on ebay from a power washer supply place. They have held up much better. The main drawbacks are cost and the seal is non standard so you would need to stock up spares/ hope they keep selling them.

  • plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’ve really enjoyed the products from eleyhosereels. The hoses have been great and avoid kinking and all their connections are brass. I think this is year 4 and everything from them is still going strong.

    • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I second this. I also like that the connectors’ interior diameter isn’t smaller than the hose so it doesn’t affect the flow, unlike a lot of other snapping connectors.

      Simple, serviceable, quality.

  • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Only thing you’ll ever have to replace is the little rubber O-rings (I use these at work on the radiator fill ports and they’re genuinely bombproof)

    Get some proper reinforced hose and you’ll never need to replace your garden hose / jetwash hose again