Dramm 12380 Heavy-Duty Brass Adjustable Hose Nozzle

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Price: $16.49    

Product Feature

• Great Cleanup Nozzle for walkways, patios, gutters and more
• Multiple spray patterns and flow volume are at your fingertips
• Twisting barrel adjusts water from fan to cone spray to powerful stream
• Manufactured in the U.S.A. from solid brass

Product Description

The Dramm Adjustable Hose Nozzle allows for different spray patterns. The twisting barrel adjusts water from a fan spray to a cone spray. About Dramm Since its beginnings as a basement operation in the early 1940s, Dramm Corporation has been a vital part of the lawn and garden industry. Dramm manufactures and distributes a complete line of professional greenhouse tools and equipment throughout the world. The 400 Water Breaker watering nozzle remains the premiere Dramm product, even after 70 years. Heavy-duty brass construction. Twisting barrel adjusts water from fan to cone spray. Clean-up nozzle for walkways, patios, gutters, and more. Comes with multiple spray patterns. Made in the USA.

Dramm 12380 Heavy-Duty Brass Adjustable Hose Nozzle Review

I've had them all, cheap ($5) nozzles and an expensive ($90) nozzle (Griot's Garage). Given I've had the expensive nozzle for over 10 years now without a hicup lends strength to the adage; 'you get what you pay for'. But who in their right mind would pay $90 for a hose nozzle? Well, I did once but the good news now is that this $10 nozzle is the best I've ever used in this price range and unlike others in this price range, should last virtually forever (because there are no inherent design flaws). Others have raved about the Gilmour nozzle and so I bought one only to find out that it breaks. Turns out it is made from three pieces of brass, two of which are press fit together; the inner core and the part that screws onto the end of the hose. The outer jacket, the part that is supposed to turn to adjust the spray is the third piece. When you torque the outer jacket down to shut off the flow, stress is induced on the press fit joint which eventually fails. The press fit joint is now so loose, that I can't turn the outer jacket to adjust the flow without the core spinning at the joint. That is, the core begins to turn and it leaks at the place where the two pieces are press fit together. Worse yet, I can't turn the jacket to shut off the flow. Only took 4 months of light use to happen.

THIS nozzle is only two metal pieces! The outer jacket, that turns to adjust the spray and shut off the flow, and the inner core which is one piece of machined brass all the way from the part that screws on to the hose to the center tip of the nozzle. Internally there are a couple of replaceable 'O' rings in addition to the requisite washer where the nozzle screws onto the hose end. The spray pattern is typical from wide mist to hard stream.

Brass is soft, relatively speaking and I do not recommend leaving this nozzle outside in a presurized state after the outside temp falls below freezing. (to help you appreciate the $90 nozzle, you could leave that thing anywhere, anytime of the year, and even bury it, only to dig it up and find that it works like new. Combined with a good hose you could even leave the whole set up outside year round and forget about it. Which I've done for over ten years. Come spring thaw, it would be right as rain.)

Gilmour makes some great products, like their Flexogen hose, but I'll stick to Dramm for the brass fittings.

**UPDATE** 18 Dec 2012.
I don't remember when I wrote this (I see it now, over two years ago) but it really was under $10 at that time....as of today it's 30% more?! The good news is that while the 'O' rings may need replacing, there's no reason the brass nozle shouldn't last a good many years.

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