THE BEST DRAIN OFF FOR YOUR SYSTEM 

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Like the idea of the improved guts in those things as it looks like they mitigate overtightening (probably the biggest cause of leaks with the traditional drain cocks - people go mental with them). Not too sure about the hoselock fitting. I've never really had an issue with attaching a hose to them (apart from those piddly little ones you often get on microbore.... they're the devil's spawn). Nice that they do a version without the hoselock fitting. I'm gonna give them a try.

Your right, I’m retired from the plumbing business for over 20year but never used the old type drain offs they leaked everywhere. Rather I’d drop a rad and drain from one of the rad valves. Those drain cocks look so much better, so long as when turning off it’s not over tighten, as that will knackered the jumper.

Being someone that uses o rings in oxygen and hi temp environments, the thicker material seals last longer. It also makes a huge difference to the shore hardness and type of material the rubber is made from. Viton can deal with it much better than nitrile but its cheaper to use than Viton.

you stick the end of the hose in ya hot cuppa tea and as if by magic it slips on LOL😉

Very nice, hozelock is only okay if you have enough clearance to get it on. Thanks.

Clever design and engineering. Thanks for the info.

I've in my house run in a little extra length of pipework off the heating system that goes outside and into a gully. On the pipe is a 15mm butterfly valve that you just open and the heating system is drained off. 👍

I hope they fixed all the problems they had from the last launch as so many of the ones i installed leaked badly and cost me alot of time and money, i’ll hang back and see if this time they got it right 😅

Good luck getting that hoselock onto most drain offs

Hi, you should invest in a proper drain down hose, people don’t change the washers in draincocks so when you disturb them they weep! To be fair you can buy them with longer shafts if you ask at a merchants.

If you hammer the end of the pipe with anything it softens up and flies on old welders trick try it you can feel the warmth.

Just goes to show a few simple changes can make a world of difference for Plumbing guys.

Looks mint. Be great if they made a lock shield valve with one of these integrated.

The worst are on hot water cylinders, i rarely get ond that works and i nearly always end up taking the hot water outlet off and using a Syphon technique

Could have done with one of those today. Ended up cobbling something together - as usual!! Well, it worked so happy days!

Try nexgen drain valves. The core is actually hdpe. Will never ever stick to the casing. We never looked back since using them

I wish someone would produce an outside tap with the end being a hoze lock that’s cast in and not removable. Some git nicked my hoze lock connector from my outside tap which is on the side of the house accessible from the front.

I've got a puzzle for you mate. Huge house, 4 floors, stored water in the basement. Circulation pump in the basement on the return runs off a clock. Clock runs the circulation pump 6-8am, 10am-12pm, 4pm-7pm, if you want a shower outside of that good luck lol. I had a brain fart, thought a solution would be to get a flow switch fitted after the cylinder so when a tap is turned on signal can be sent to turn pump on. Talked the plumber into it and he fitted a worcester bosch flow switch, nice. Fitted a 2 pole contactor, N/c side for the existing clock so it operates as normal, N/O side for the flow switch. Works great, turn the tap on, flow switch energizes the contactor, turns the pump on, but fuck me, the pumps running now mate so the flow switch is always going to send the signal to the contactor to run the pump, it's never going to stop and the boiler is going to run 24hrs a day, bit expensive like. There's a solution to this that the semi retired 70 something year old plumber or me is not coming up with, and you got smarts and listen to Aphex Twin so I reckon you'd know what it is. Help please!

Ideal for back filling

Need a lockshield version!

James Pixies & Elves in a lifetime of plumbing I have very rarely undone a drain off that has not been over tightened and the washer flattened of worse has to be picked out of the fitting. the washer is rubber on a machined surface it does not have to be tightened all the way Nip it and a fraction more.

Does the new inners fit the old drain offs currently installed? Game changer if so

Great video mate

My draincock has great engineering

Top tip time, hold your part in place with your tape measure

Nine times out of ten you wouldn’t be able to fit hose lock connector on as most drain of are in tight spaces

best drain off in my opinion is a ball valve with threaded hose nipple screwed into it so it has no place to leak :D

Random unrelated question…..why do we fill washing machines and dishwashers with stone cold water and pay for the electricity to heat in when many of us have hot water cylinders full of hot water that rarely gets all used in one day ?

I've noticed, plumbers' job is the "Fuck that guy" job- Every builder goes to lengths to hide or burry pipes, make them inaccessible, they don't leave maintenance hatches on anything, they don't install access branches to soil pipes (heaven forbid it ever blocks because it totally never does), they leave kinks and bad bends on pipes, and a lot of products are hostile to the installer, as well as a lot of boilers are designed to discourage repairs or part replacements. This drain-off is probably the first step in the right direction.

That will fit nicely into a speed Fit T junction...

Wait, a new plumbing gizmo without an app or bluetooth connectvity. How is gen z going to operate it?

Here’s the solution now where’s the problem? most of those issues can be overcome. you didn’t mention the jubilee clip James! Now that is a pain in the arse!

Tip: Use a little washing up liquid to ease the hose on to the drain off valve.

Do you have the right to repair the o-ring, or will it call the mothership and disable itself like my mates model 3?

Could never understand why these fittings didn’t use the same internal arrangement as the radiator valves with the integrated drain off, never had one of those fail to open or leak.

Hi whats the name of that website where u can get bargain tools, that u mention just 3 letters

I can finally sleep at night after digesting this.

What you mean there are some plumbers who don’t fit drain cocks? Shocking. 😂 Daughter had a cowboy builder in who never fitted one and all the downstairs rads were droplegs. When she finally sacked him she asked me to ‘finish’ it off. No where to fit them by the rads so had to change the lockshields to incorporate a drain. He left the pipes to one radiator in the stud wall so I had to cut a hole in the brand new plaster to find the pipes.

Reinventing the wheel. If they are going to try and get past the 1st gen of the doc they need to do something about the price. Just did a quick Google and they come up between £5 and £7. When I can get a long tail type A for £1.28. As the dragons would say……it’s a no from me.

the rubber won't melt, inside or outside one, but it won't be happy about the heat and it will age it faster.

Love it, thank you for this one they look really useful! Can you offer up some more places to buy them (that help you out too) as I'm still boycotting Amazon until they pay their taxes fairly like the rest of us do in this country?

Like the look of them there drain thingys. Any thoughts on an ‘Airgon’?

I think that you're more excited when doing tour videos 😅

I could have done with 1 of these a month ago I ended up getting a manual valve with a integrated drain off

I can only find the ones with the fully plastic insert

Once you get to your Amazon site, whereabouts is it please?

My drain cocks seem to be even older, they are fitted between the spigot and the valve body, facing vertically downward. Could you do a tutorial on these type. All three installed on my system don’t let any drain off.

Love the idea. Is it me or why am i thinking the bad things that peeps will do to them, Like you said James impact tight, rounded off, inaccessible lol

Does it come with a charge point

What’s your thoughts on having an isolator inside with a pipe going outside to drain off the system

Or as a plumber you should have proper drain down hose problem solved

And the customer will paint them just the same ruining the hose lock 😄 🤣

Tesla? As in Elon's Tesla? Space X to plumbing parts

Designed by engineers 👍👍👍

christ almighty, they finally started selling these in the UK.

Am I blind or stupid??? I can’t see these in your amazon store anywhere Jim

If you are pricing a job for an estimate against other companies you are going to cost for the cheapest one, not the hose lock one. Unfortunately

Tesla?? Guessing they bought the rights. I seen these a few years ago and was invented by a plumber from the UK. Probably living on a beach in Barbados now 😂

Tesla make everything cars immersions the lot 😂😂jkjk🤣😅😉

I'm known as the short shaft guy

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That’s cool

Why has it taken this long... can we move to all metric before I die

Bet you... "Plumber McNumpty" 🤡 still manages to put these things as close to the ground as he can whilst angling it inwards towards the wall. 🙄 🤣🤣🤣

Hope there better than the original one they brought out they were absolute garbage mate.

Why wasn't this designed 15 years ago!!!🤔

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The best kind of draincock is probably not a draincock. They are largely poorly designed and leaky. I would sooner find other ways to drain systems than use a draincock. How about a full bore lever ball valve to a pipe to which one fits a 3/4 inch male adapter. Then one could thread on a cap or when one needs to drain it, unthread cap, thread on 3/4 inch threaded hose adapter and hosepipe then open valve. That would be a far better way to do it!!!

it is expensive

Great, there's only about 2 million to change 1/2" off the floor 😂

Get a isle of man key

Its a Tesla so it won't work in the winter.

You carn’t beat that extra long shaft...for a better fit...👃 😜

Looks expensive

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More over engineered rubbish for double the price! Ain’t no way plumbers got a hose pipe attachment on there hose, to attach the hose attachment makes it much bulkier & more space needed… plus once that o-ring leaks ain’t no plumbers got an o-ring that fits… how much the paying you to push that rubbish

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