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Don-Wi

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Raining today so I went to the store and bought some rakes, New garden hose,a new hose reel, and a few other things. Putting the hose reel together in my garage and the T won't thread into the stub they have on the end if the reel. I took off the 10 wraps off Teflon they put on in China and it turns out the stub isn't threaded. It's basically just serrated. No idea how you do that, with either a threading tool in a cnc, or a die for threading a male pipe thread.

So instead of wasting more time taking it apart to bring it back only to get another junk one, I'm gonna cut off the junk threads and make up something that'll actually work.

The funny part is that the other end that threads onto the handle for turning it has perfect threads....

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
That sounds like something I'd be taking back to the store, PRO
NTO! I got little patience for poor workmanship. Only way we,
're going to survive this junk is to pile up the rejects in the
retailers warehouses.
 
I bought a grade 8 7/16-20 bolt once, for a
harmonic balancer. Tried to screw it in, wouldn't
go. Got to looking at it and it wasn't threaded,
just rings rolled into it...

Also bought a box of small worm gear hose clamps,
all had left hand thread screws!

That would make a good episode of "Mysteries of How
It's Made"! LOL
 
Your 100% right Rabbit! I used to do What Don did and repair that junk crap, Felt really proud of Myself when I did. Then one day I brought a saw blade, Would only cut to the left! NO SET on one side! took it back, get other one, Same thing Took it back, Said just give Me My money Back! Now I could of put set in that saw blade I know how, But I thought I"ve been repairing NEW JUNK for 20 years! NO MORE!! When they have to pay for shipping it back or lose money on their junk stuff, Then they will quit putting it on the shelf.
 
Well I looked at their website and they have a similar but even nicer one for almost 2x the money. Maybe I'll go to exchange it, inspect a few before I leave the store since it's a 20 mile drive, and if they're all junk I'll lean on them to give me a better one. Kinda odd. They have 1/2 pipe thread, wrapped with about 20 wraps of tape, and then they have a rubber washer to act as a gasket when the threads are tight... still no idea what the gasket is supposed to do some that's the point of tapered pipe threads.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Last year a man told me he went to Dollar General to get a garden hose. Well-known brand, but it had several leaks.. Took it back, same thing.. Went through 7, yes Seven, They finally insisted on giving his money back.
 
seen that before. Bought a half-inch galvanized pipe & couldn't get one end to fit. Because that end was metric while other end was english. Measure it with thread gauge.
 
Well I brought it back, assembled as far as I got it. When I got another one off the shelf I cut the box open and made sure the threads were good before commiting to it.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
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