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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: chrismyrie on February 14, 2013, 07:11:38 pm

Title: 90 degree elbow
Post by: chrismyrie on February 14, 2013, 07:11:38 pm

Hi, does anyone know if there are any alternatives to the brass 90 degree elbow hose fitting (the sort that Cleaning Spot sell)?.
Cheers

Title: Re: 90 degree elbow
Post by: DeLuce on February 15, 2013, 04:17:40 pm

If you need plastic 90°elbows for 12-15mm pipe (1/2'') then B&Q sell them.

Title: Re: 90 degree elbow
Post by: Total shine cleaning services on February 18, 2013, 10:59:50 am

I was so sick of leaks from hose to reel when using hot that I eventually went to a pneumatics company and paid £45 for top spec fitting that screws onto reel but obviously has a centre section that spins, no more leaks

graham

Title: Re: 90 degree elbow
Post by: DeLuce on February 18, 2013, 07:36:56 pm

If you look at Dazmonds thread, the 'Gardiner connector' one, it shows you a pic of an alternative and I think there's a link there too.

Title: Re: 90 degree elbow
Post by: chrismyrie on February 18, 2013, 09:38:15 pm

Totalshinemk, any pics or info would be great.
I looked on the Gardiners site, it looks exactly the same as the  brass ones I've had.

Title: Re: 90 degree elbow
Post by: Total shine cleaning services on February 19, 2013, 12:54:12 am

not sure how to do pics, from my fogwash I've connected a washing machine hose straight to this connector I bought, I screwed one end onto fogwash, cut the tap of the other end and used a really tight jubilee clip to fasten to new connector, the new connector is two parts stainless steel which spins in the middle and there is a nylon collar that screws onto the hose reel, I bought it from a company in Dunstable and will try upload photo once I learn how.

graham

Title: Re: 90 degree elbow
Post by: rosskesava on February 19, 2013, 01:07:29 am

Quote from: nic riggs on February 15, 2013, 04:17:40 pm

If you need plastic 90°elbows for 12-15mm pipe (1/2'') then B&Q sell them.

The one near me doesn't.

Last Sunday I nearly went into meltdown trying to solve a problem of needing a 90 degree elbow in either 1/2 inch or 15mm or 22mm to go from the screw fitting on a sureflo pump to a 22mm connector and round a 90 degree bend.

I ended up wasting £28 on a pile of connectors. Trying to work out how to connect such a simple thing together became more complex than solving a rubic cube.

Title: Re: 90 degree elbow
Post by: SPE on February 19, 2013, 09:14:19 am

Quote from: rosskesava on February 19, 2013, 01:07:29 am

Quote from: nic riggs on February 15, 2013, 04:17:40 pm

If you need plastic 90°elbows for 12-15mm pipe (1/2'') then B&Q sell them.

The one near me doesn't.

Last Sunday I nearly went into meltdown trying to solve a problem of needing a 90 degree elbow in either 1/2 inch or 15mm or 22mm to go from the screw fitting on a sureflo pump to a 22mm connector and round a 90 degree bend.

I ended up wasting £28 on a pile of connectors. Trying to work out how to connect such a simple thing together became more complex than solving a rubic cube.

Hi Ross,its Simon (gleam team) the B&Q near us is pants
Try Floline plumbers merchants on Princes Road (off ditchling road )
I get all my bits and pieces there now, much cheaper and you can buy one of something if thats all you need unlike B&Q.  ;)

Title: Re: 90 degree elbow
Post by: rosskesava on February 19, 2013, 07:18:29 pm

Thanks for that bit of usefull info.

I live along Ditchling Road and a stones throw from the place you mentioned and incredibly, I didn't even know it was there.

Cheers Simon.

Title: Re: 90 degree elbow
Post by: SPE on February 19, 2013, 11:08:58 pm

Quote from: rosskesava on February 19, 2013, 07:18:29 pm

Thanks for that bit of usefull info.

I live along Ditchling Road and a stones throw from the place you mentioned and incredibly, I didn't even know it was there.

Cheers Simon.

no worries, they got a free coffee machine too  ;)