00:00You know that feeling when you're fixing a water line, or a fuel line, or a little air compressor
00:04setup, and the hardware store wants 8 bucks for one tiny brass fitting? Yeah. Me too.
00:12That's exactly why I went hunting, and I found the best brass hose barb fittings under $5 every
00:17single one of these sells for less than 3 bucks. Let's run through them. First up, the straight
00:23reducer. This one comes in basically every size you'd ever need, 2.5 millimeters all the way up
00:29to 32, and you can also get reducing versions that step from one diameter down to another.
00:35That's the big deal here, one listing, whole range of sizes. It's $2.33, it's sold over 4,000 times,
00:43and it holds a 4.9 rating. If you're building a manifold or adapting different hose sizes,
00:49this is the workhorse. Buy a handful, keep them in the drawer.
00:54Next, the T, X, Y, and U type splicers. $2.45 for a fitting that lets you split one line
01:02into two,
01:02or cross two lines together, or do a three-way Y. These are brass, so they handle water, gas,
01:08oil, and they won't crack like plastic wool when the temperature swings. Over 4,000 sold, 4.9 stars.
01:16Worth grabbing if you're running one supply line to two outlets and don't want to hunt for a special
01:21order. Okay, the cheapest one on the list, and honestly my favorite for value.
01:275 pieces 5 of male thread-to-hose barb adapters, M4 up to M8 on the thread side,
01:323-8 millimeter on the barb side. $1.67. That's about 33 cents each. This is the fitting that converts
01:42a
01:42threaded port on a pump, a valve, a filter housing, into something you can push a hose onto.
01:48Everyone needs these eventually. Keep a set in the toolbox.
01:53Then there's the equal and reducing T three-way, brass, 4-19 millimeters. $2.78.
02:01Now, this one's slightly different from the splicers I mentioned, because you can get reducing T's.
02:07That means the branch leg isn't the same size as the run.
02:11So a 6-millimeter mainline can feed a 4-millimeter branch, no adapter stack needed.
02:17Fewer joints, fewer leak points.
02:193,000 plus sold, 4.9 rating.
02:23If you're plumbing something compact, this is the one.
02:27Last one, the two-way straight coupler.
02:3018 sizes, 4 to 20 millimeters.
02:33$2.80, so right at the top of our budget, but it earns it, these are the clean,
02:38straight-splice fittings you use to join two lengths of the same hose or step down a size.
02:43Nice smooth bores, solid brass, and that same 4.9 rating across nearly 3,000 sales.
02:49If you just need to reconnect a cut line, this is the simplest, cheapest, most reliable fix you can
02:54make. Alright, every link is down in the description below, each one under 5 bucks,
03:00all of them rated 4.9. No reason to pay hardware store prices for brass.
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