Twinkle Star Garden Hose Repair Connector with Clamps, Male and Female Garden Hose Repair Kit, Fit for 3/4" or 5/8" Garden Hose Fitting, 3 Set

These look to be very sturdy.

These provide a nice clean way to repair a garden hose. Instead of the hose clamps to secure the new hose end I use pinch clamps which makes for a cleaner installation.

You may have to heat the hose a little

Sometimes these guys are really handy when we are heading out for the day for window cleaning, and we are setting up our water fed cleaning systems. we often have a pile of unused or old hoses that we cut to size and then we will use as part of our hose system for our window Cleaning equipment. It’s much cheaper to build your own than having to buy a full hose. These pieces make it easy to do so and they come with the clamps which are nice. You can use a flathead to do it but I’d recommend having one that can fit around the actual hex nut. You want to make sure it’s tight but not overly tightened. Also, one of the things that is a little trickier is getting the nipple and of the connector into the house fully it requires a lot of pushing I don’t have a complete trick to doing that maybe you have a vacuum on the other side to suck it in but what I’ve done is just manually push it in with my hand or push it against the ground to slowly get it in. If you have a stubborn one you can sometimes use a little bit of heat to the adapter into the hose

Why had I never heard of something like this before?? I'd always duct-taped leaky hoses to oblivion, but this repair kit was really simple but effective in fixing an old hose that had sprung several leaks for which my duct-tape repair wasn't working anymore. The hardest part was just making clean cuts to remove the broken hose segments. They don't come with instructions, so I just went off intuition and it was luckily successful!Here's what I did:1) used an exacto-knife to cut the segments out of the hose with the leaks2) inserted each end of the repair connector (this took a bit of grip strength) . I made sure to seat the black rubber washer inside the "female" end .3) hand tightened the two ends together4) used the metal clamps around the circumference of the spots of I repaired (where the metal connectors meet the cut edge of the hose) to strengthen the hose. I used a flathead screwdriver to tighten theseTook less than 5 minutes, no frustration, no tools needed except a knife and a flathead screwdriver, and worked flawlessly! Now I'm dreaming up ways to rescue leaky hoses from the trash and turn them into an irrigation system for my garden.....

After one year, the copper color is gone. The male and female connection part is too short (circled in red), so it led to water leakage.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND! Ran over a good hose of mine with riding mower - dodged bullet on that, didn't tear up mower. SURE did a number on that hose though. Expletives replete - then came in & ordered these brass male/female hose repair parts with SS hose clamps. Delivered next day - Problem solved. They went into the inside of the hose - nice tight fit, used mallet to seat totally. Clamps worked well too - sometimes the cheaper ones don't work so good!Voila, back up and running for less than replacing the hose. only lost maybe 8 feet of the hose.

Excellent repair kit. If you have high water pressure these are what you need instead of the plastic repair kits.