If I want to connect a print washer to a faucet that is not GHT or any standard thread (like sink faucet with its own aerator), what kind of option is available? Just slide in a hose and clamp? I tried Patterson's attachment but my faucet diameter is slightly larger.

Also, if you know a good internet source for getting those connecting parts, please let me know.

Thanks,

-- Ryuji Suzuki (rsuzuki@rs.cncdsl.com), November 04, 2001

Answers

Around here, we go to the hardware store. Where are you?

-- Alec (alecj@bellsouth.net), November 04, 2001.

Ryuji,

While the previous poster may not have put it in the most polite terms, what he is saying is probably the best advice. Try to find something that will screw onto the faucet, and take it to a well stocked hardware store or plumbing supply house. You can then find some kind of connection. You might even buy several connections or nuts to see if one fits to get the process started, and take them back if they don't. I have tried the connections like those that come with a Kodak siphon, but I can never get a connection that does not leak. Using a hose and a clamp is an option, but then you have to take it off for other uses. If you go this route, try attaching a standard female faucet connection to the other end of the hose. While the setup will be one that's not ideal, it will work better than what you have now.

I don't think there is an Internet source I can recommend if you don't know the size or kind of faucet end that you have. Best to try to stay local unless that's not a possibility.

-- Jim Rock (jameswrock@aol.com), November 05, 2001.

Hardware and other stores used to sell an attachment that would allow you to put one end of a hose on a bathtub faucet, and use a shower head at the other end. The faucet end was a larger version of the flexible rubber funnel attachment available for print washers.

I use a Peterson film washing attachment that has a smaller rubber funnel and works fine if I take the aerator attachjment off the faucet.

-- Jeff Polaski (polaski@acm.org), November 05, 2001.

take the filter off the faucet. a garden hose attachement can be fitted to the shipon with a clamp. I had trouble when i went to the hardware store because i didn't know the correct word for the end, finally found someone who would listen to the description(from a woman) and got me the part i needed. Every washer i use needs to be re-fitted with a plumping part, so i know they can be found. try taking the device with you to test parts. An old fashion type store will be more likely to have parts in a bin rather than pre-packaged.

-- Ann Clancy (clancya@mediaone.net), November 05, 2001.

I unscrewed the aerator from my Delta sink faucet and took it to Home Depot and told the sales person that I wanted to attach a standard garden hose to the threads where the aerator screwed into. After about 15 minutes of experimentation, the sales person found 2 different pieces, that when screwed together, accomplished the task. The total cost was about $4.00.

-- Michael Feldman (mfeldman@qwest.net), November 05, 2001.