Totally agree. He's a frustrated comedian I guess. Instead of of presenting information, he's trying to be funny and cute. How did he get to 1.81M subscribers?
Great video! I’m watching this as I’m about to head to the hardware store to buy a quick connection set with my 3 year old daughter. Glad to see I’m not the only one with a daughter who likes to hangout in the garage with me 😊
Did you ever think you were going to be so obsessed with quick connects? 😀 Great video, thanks for all the hard work. You may want to at least start getting 1" hose to start your garden hose upgrades.
I also have Elay quick disconnects on every spigot and watering device at my house. I also have two of their hose reel’s and their sprayer. I have found overtime. Some of the quick disconnects are a little more difficult to separate. All this stuff is definitely quality and expensive.
Just ordered a 4 pack of the Eley. Thanks for the video. I have been playing the same game for years. I am a guy with “way too many hoses” as well. I live in PA, have an old 33,000 gallon in ground pool, inflatable hot tub, chicken coop, work on cars, motorcycles, etc. I have installed outdoor hot water hook ups so I can run my power washer, etc, all winter if needed. So I have been battling these cheap quick connects for years. The cheap metal ones do have o rings, they are just inside where they are hard to remove. There are so many cheap ones that look the same, but don’t work together, so I have plenty of miss matches. I tried servicing the corroded cheap metal ones in my ultrasonic, finding the brass plating comes off the cheap metal underneath that then corrodes faster. Can’t wait to get these, they are exactly what I was looking for!
Eley wasn't an option when I needed quick connects I still have brass quick connections from Nelson from 1980 when I was hauling hoses to keep my parents lawn perfect. I used stake type impact sprinklers at the time and 2 at once gave me the head to head coverage - think about thus guys a 12 year old got an award for the best lawn in my town of 5,000 people in the local news paper boy did that increase my business lol at 12 year old
I can't believe you didn't try Gardena's. They have been used for years here without a hitch, you just forget about them and then everytime you use you say to yourself, "these are good", then look them over and additionally say. "and they are lasting". They also have the ASMR factor you're looking for.
For the sticking problem keep sand washed out and use WD40, or food grade silicone spreay. also putting together and taking apart is much easier when on a hose or ii it is attached to a hose end sprayer.
I had to look up ASMR because I had never heard of it before. It brought up a RU-vid playlist of a Russian woman whispering and speaking very softly. I couldn't take it for more than a few seconds, I had to come back and listen to the Eley quick connects again, so much better IMO.
Eley does look like the best and win the one hand test, but the cost would need to come down for me considering a set of eley is 26 bucks vs 8 bucks for a brass set at the store.
How are those Eley quick connects holding up since you have had them? I assume since you have them everywhere they re left out in the elements year round. Are they still smooth to operate? Orings leak or have you maintained them with the grease etc? Have the brass become pitted in from continuous use?
I hate the plastic ones. They crack and leak for me. All the brass and stainless steel ones have the same mechanism and quite a few of them are actually compatible with each other. You must have fairly hard water. When they start sticking soak then in CLR for a couple hours and they will be good as new. The ones I use look like the second ones shown, they are $3ish at Lowe's. Those Eley one's look very well made but with as many as I have that's nearly $300 in quick connects. FWIW I'm able to connect them one handed but it's definitely not easy. There is also a version that stop the flow of water when disconnected. Those are my preference. Lowe's sells them with the pressure washer fittings, just slightly more than the $3 version and they are sold in sets. As far as the comment on flow. I did some testing a while back as I got some larger hoses and using larger fittings, etc. I found that it was the water spigots that limited the flow, not the hose or hose fittings. I replaced all my hose spigots on my house but found there are very few on the market that will flow more that 10-12 gpm @60psi. Part of this comes down to the fact most houses are built with 1/2in plumbing to the hose spigots, and even if 3/4in is used the connection inside the valve will neck down to less that 1/2in at the valve seat.
Well this didn't help me at all. I love my quick connects, i don't care at all if i can do it with one hand, what i like the most is having one with a check valve, all others are junk. I love leaving the water on and being able to switch between my sprayer to the sprinkler or whatever and not getting wet. I never use them with my pressure washer bc they all throttle the flow.
It’s a function of size, pressure and length. For the lawn, max flow is first based on meter size and pressure. Really depends on the meter you have which could be found out from your utility. Depending on pressure at the meter, a 3/4 meter could be as high as 30gpm versus 50gpm on a 1in meter. You can do a flow test at the spigot using a short piece of hose, a 5 gal bucket and a stop watch on your phone. Time how long it takes to fill the bucket and covert to gals per min. That is maximum. Keep in mind that hose has higher pressure loss per foot(thus loss in flow)than a rigid pipe. Run a pipe sized to match the meter to a strategic location with a spigot so a shorter amount of hose could be used than have hundreds of feet of hose. Seen that on golf courses before. Hope some of this made sense. Good luck.
I had my entire house and shop on OG quick connects. I bought an Eley hose reel in 2019 and it came with a 4 pack of quick connects. Since I had the OG's, I put the Eley's in a drawer and didn't use them immediately. After trying them one day, it's a night and day difference. The Eley's are smoother, easier to connect and don't restrict the flow. I've since replaced every OG quick connect with an Eley.
For what it’s worth.. I went with Water Right Hose 600, Strongway wall mount reel and AM Leonard quick connects. Probably half the cost of my friends Eley and as good or better quality.
Thanks for this video. On your recommendation, I bought some Eley quick-connects and connected a spigot to a 3/4" 50' hose, and then again to a 3/4" 100' hose. I also got Eley's nozzle setup and added a quick-connect to that as well. NO LEAKS. None. Not even a little bit. After decades of dealing with quick-connects that invariably leak, these are so satisfying. They are very beefy brass tools that should last generations with minimal care. Thanks again for your recommendation.
I've been using the brass ones off of Amazon. I think I've got 20 already. I've been heavy using them in the summer especially the last month and so far so good after a year. I've got them hooked up to my pressure washer., Spray bottles, etc. My problem is is Iive got more of the male ends laying around than I do the female. I wish they just sold the female connects which they don't. I also pinch my flexzilla hoses to shut the water off to release the quick connect but noticed my flexzilla hose is starting to bubble/damage from me doing this so I've ordered 2 hose cut offs..
In my experience Melnor is the cheapest and the best. Metal corrodes too fast and expensive. You seem biased against Melnor. But I still watched, you did not convince me.
I am biased against cheap junk. You are biased against metal. Difference is, I have actually tried both of them and made a judgement. You haven’t tried the Eley.
There is a huge difference between stainless steel and brass. The surface corrosion that is causing the brass to bind does not occur with stainless steel.
It all depends on what grade of brass you are using. And yes, Ideally stainless is the way to go but the reality is that stainless has drawbacks as well and they typically are related to cost. Its often more difficult to work with and its lack of malleability sometimes will require different construction methods (ie you can't swage it or use deformative manufacturing processes). That being said.... In my opinion, the Obsessed Garage connectors have one major drawback versus the Eley quick connects: Flow rate. The eley connectors have a 3/4 pass through. Sure, I'd prefer that the Eley connectors were stainless so I would be 100% certain that they will last a lifetime.... but until someone comes out with a true 3/4 stainless quick connect, the Eley is king of the hill, in my opinion. To Summarized: Stainless is a more desirable material in terms of durability and corrosion resistance.... but Eley has the better design.
I’ve looked at the Eley connects before but went with others because the Eley are pretty expensive. After using the “others” the frustration is real! I just purchased ONE of the Eley to try and if it alleviates some frustration, I will get a couple more to round out the outside spigots. Thx for the review.
There is one other that is great it is Banjo connectors. They are solid and love them. I would put them up against any other connector. I did the same thing went through garbage until I found them. Now I am satisfied
I think the reason they are that size is in the way they connect it's so there's no edge to blow the hose off that was one of my concerns when I seen how easy they come apart but maybe being that diameter they won't blow off as I originally thought. Cool channel.
I bought the brass ones from the big box store and they also would get stuck. Thanks for this comparison , I'm thinking of getting some Eely quick connects !
That's a 5 min video stretched to 18 min. Man, you talk a lot and give very little useful info. Even after setting the video speed to 1.5x I couldn't watch this to the end. Just because RU-vid pays per minute you don’t have to make people suffer like that.
Great video. But OMG I paused the video to see what the guys working on the gas line in my neighborhood were doing that was causing a gawd awful squeak. When I came back to finish I realized it was on the video.
The plastic Melnor ones are nice in that they shut off the flow when you disconnect them, but that design really restricts the water flow. And I did have some of the male connectors break within about a year. What i decided to go with are the brass connectors from Harbor Freight. They look similar yo the ones you show from Obsessed Garage, but they only have 3 ball bearing. They certainly arent at the level of the Eley connectors, but the HF ones are about $8 for 4 male connectors and 2 female connectors. So i was able to get 4 packs (16 males for various attachments/nozzles and 8 females for spigots and hoses). Ive had a couple of the connectors start leaking, but theyre ao inexpensive that i can just swap them out. I'd like to go with the Eley's, but it would cost me substantially more money. I did get the Eley hise reel (loaded it with 100 feet of Flexzilla hose) and it is wonderful! It blows away all of the plastic reels you can find at the big box stores.
Everything in life requires maintenance, silicone grease for all of your water exposed connectors and they will function perfectly and last those 10+ plus years regardless if their design. About $5 per half ounce at the box store, which will last years as the application required is only a thin coat, lasting the season. You have invested more on your connectors and hoses than renting a "ditch witch" for a day, buying rainbirds, soakers, monitors and installing your our sprinkler system yourself would have cost.... 🦉💦
should I connect the quick release directly to the outdoor faucet or put like a 2 ft hose on it? My outdoor faucet is under a tree so kind of hard to get to
I have the OG ones everywhere and prefer the two hand operation over the one handed. To me that means it locks in better and overall will last longer. Eley is usually good so I'd say you can't go wrong either way. Good video!
That guy over at Obsessed Garage was offering or suggesting Eley quick connects here lately. I have them and expect them to last forever. Any tool or product that has o-rings will need them replaced from time to time, that’s a given.
Flow rate will change with any/every change in pipe/hose/fitting diameter. The difference will be very small if comparing 5/8" to 3/4" diamter hose, and the difference will be more noticable between 1" and 1/2" diameter hose. The smallest restriction determines flow rates so use the smallest diameter of any fitting in the hose/fitting combination in your calculations. Flow rate will not increase by replacing 5/8" hose with 3/4" or 1" hose if the pipe feeding the spigot is 5/8".
You told us yourself. The one that the commenter had for 10 years was probably because they replaced the gasket when it leaked. As you mentioned, you tightened it not realizing there even was a gasket & broke the plastic. Basic user error. Just CHECK GASKETS & REPLACE them. Lol. Before you try tightening plastic/metal objects. Also why go through all this. Just get drip irrigation. Its awesome it's easy. Dont have to keep buying replacements. Raindrip I use. Had for year. Never replaced anything. Never have to hand water. Just change the timer on rain days. Otherwise setup once & done until putaway in fall. No brainer to me.
I just sent it and dropped a few hundred bucks in their store using your affiliate link to set up all my hoses and new accessories. Now tell me where you get all those great stickers!
After seeing your video I just ordered an Eley female quick connect with 5 male connects, and the swivel shut off valve through your link. They may cost more, but it’s for a long time purchase and I’ll appreciate it more than the difference in price. Luckily I don’t need too much for my home. Looking forward to their arrival.
Went through the whole video, went to the website, went through all the browsing and shopping for parts around my house, get to shipping. USA only. Inconsiderate to not even mention that. liked the video beacuse it was a good video but im sick of not being able to get any relevent info on a world wide site.
So much great information and a great variety of products covered. This is exactly the information I was looking for. But I have to say it was a little hard to listen through the whole thing. The nonstop, high energy talking through the whole video with a lot of extraneous points was a bit much. Not trying to criticize, I just like to give constructive feedback. Your little assistant, was a great add to the video. Thanks again for taking the time to put all this information together. 👍🏻
Oh side note if you want the highest flowing GHT inline swivel I have 2 that I have tested. I tried the very nice expensive ones by sanilav. They swivel nice but they have only a 3/8” Id. The Dramm swivels have a 5/8” ID so in terms of flow since you should only really run it on the end of your hose that has the nozzle you really don’t lose much flow at all
ELEY female fittings do not have the auto shutoff option, like the melnor. If ELEY offered a female fitting that shut off the water flow when disconnected I would change in a minute.
Do you know if you would just grease those connectors that keep sticking, they would last as long as your favorite one on the list. Any metal component that has water flowing through it should be coated with some type of corrosion inhibitor or grease.
Hey man, I work in agriculture, and just got done doing a ton of irrigation work at my house. I’ve got pretty good knowledge on pressures and flows that I’d love to help you out with or just talk and give you some insight into what I know. Let me know if you are interested and we can connect or something. Cheers!
Correct me if I'm wrong but uvhave to turn the hose water off first to disconnect & reconnect? The one we have, u can turn the water off at the connector. Its great for us because we have a boat that we park outside our fence & our hose is inside the fence. Then we only have to walk around the fence once to turn it on & once to turn it off. We can use the sprayer to rinse the boat down, then turn water off at connector, pop hose sprayer off & quick connect it to the motor to flush. Same thing around back for the pool. I can use the sprayer to squirter things off & then disconnect & reconnect to hook up Vacuum without having to walk back & forth multiple times to the actual hose handle
The quick connects and disconnects that have ball bearings in them, those need maintenance every so often also. You need to add a little oil to them so they work smoothly.
we have gardena here in germany which are the standard here as everyone seems to hthem, at least for private use they look an awful loot like the melinor (spelled correctly?) but is the other way around as you shown at 4:00 so you can easy pull them off with one hand and they are basically indestructable we have some here that are 15+ years old with platik chipped away from the pull-down part and they still sit tight and don´t leak. what i find really amazing
After watching you videos, I became obsessed with Eley products: hose reel cart, hose connectors etc. I watched all of their tutorial videos and read their on-line manuals. Then I discovered that they do not ship to Canada, and have no Canadian distributors
