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Old 09-27-2024, 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by villagetinker View Post
Sorry, I am completely confused now, the units on the spigots are "vacuum brakers" and are designed to prevent the backflow of hose water into the house. If you have one of these and it is leaking, you can get a replacement from Lowe's for under $10. The trick is getting the old one off, I have found that cutting a slot into the broken off screw will allow you to use a screw driver to loosen the screw and then remove the defective vacuum breaker, then install the new one. I typically do not break off the set screw device so I can replace in the future easily.
I don’t break set screw off either. I always have spare.

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Areas. not on pond water irrigation has these which most don’t know about them till the leak. I sure talking about outside house spigot?