[lawgolfer]

Having lived in the Southwest where there are specialty retailers that have every sprinkler part imaginable, it was frustrating to shop for parts in The Villages at the usual, local, suspects, Ace, HD etc.

I turned to the internet. Any one of three vendors, Cheap Sprinklers, Sprinkler Warehouse, or Sprinkler Supply have every sprinkler part available. If you want parts for "drip" systems, try Drip Depot.

As an example, Sprinkler Supply, has 28 pages of Rain Bird parts. I expect that the others have the same.

Repairing sprinkler systems is a tiring, boring, job. It's even harder when you waste your time driving around to the local stores only to learn that the part you need is not available. Worse yet is when you try to jerry-rig a collection of parts of different manufacturers together to get your system running or when you have to use different brands of sprinklers, each of which adjust in different ways.