Garden Hose Healer: Hose to Hose

Say goodbye to your broken garden hoses with the Garden Hose Healer! This version is used to make a repair in the middle of a broken hose, rather than at the end like with the male threads version of this model. Its robust construction and innovative design ensure a secure fit and prevent leaks, making your hose as good as new.

Design: The Garden Hose Healer features a practical and sturdy design, with separately printed pins that securely clamp down on the hose. The retaining barb and clamping pin design with cap provide a tight seal, ensuring no water escapes. This mender is perfect for anyone looking to extend the life of their garden hose without the need for a complete replacement.  The pins are printed separately and inserted to maximize their strength and avoid them snapping off during assembly. 

Revive your garden hose and restore the flow with the Garden Hose Healer! 3MF and STEP files included.

Features:

• Retaining Barb: Ensures a secure grip on the hose.
• Clamping Pin and Cap Design: Provides a tight seal to prevent leaks.
• Easy to Use: Simply attach to the cut end of your hose and tighten.

Printing:

• Material: Printed with durable ASA, this model is built to last. PETG can work too, but I would advise against PLA simply because it creeps over time.
• Layer height: Prints well at 0.16 or 0.12 layer height in ASA. For good threads, thinner layers are recommended. If you haven’t shrink-corrected your ASA printing profiles, you may need to enlarge the model to ~100.7%. Should fit just fine for PETG prints, but you may wish to enlarge to 100.3%.
• Orientation: I recommend printing as shown in the pictures.  Supports ARE needed for this one. Use a brim on the tall part. Support this dark blue highlighted section with organic tree supports as shown here:
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Assembly: 

• First, put the clamping caps onto the hose itself.
• Second, insert the barb into the cut-off parts of the hose.  
  • Important note: Some hoses have annoying interior construction that can prevent a good seal.  In order to get a good seal it's very important that if your hose has any significant internal ribbing like mine does (see below) that you trim them back where it contacts the barb to create an even circular interior.  This will ensure a good even seal and prevent water from escaping around the clamps/barb.
  • Before Trimming:
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  • After Trimming off troublesome ribbing:
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• Third, install the 8 pins (on each side) so that the little teeth point inward near the top of the barb as shown.  They should press-fit in place.  If they don't for some reason, they're easy and quick to reprint at a slightly smaller size (99.5-99% should do it).
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• Lastly, put the caps back on and screw it firmly clockwise to cause these pins to compress down on the hose.  You may use a pair of pliers to torque it if you wish.  The threads may be tight initially and a little bit of working them back and forth ahead of time and/or a little vegetable oil may make this part smoother.  Depending on the thickness of your hose you may not be able to completely screw the cap all the way, and this is OK.  The point is to have the cap compress the retaining pins.  Your final result will look like this:
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