[lawgolfer]

This is a Hunter store. The parts it will have available are for Hunter sprinklers. These parts should fit Orbit sprinklers as both are the same company. There seems to be some debate about Orbit being a cheaper version of Hunter and that Orbit branded products are not the same quality as Hunter. I have used them interchangeably and noticed no difference.

You will not find Rain Bird or Toro products at this store.

There has been a movement by manufacturers to use common standards on some sprinkler parts. Thus, many brands' adjustable nozzles are interchangeable. Even so, I plan to continue to only buy replacement parts that come from the manufacturer of the sprinkler I am repairing.

As an aside, many homeowners are installing small rotating nozzles on their small 1/2" sprinklers, either pop-up or fixed shrub. These are not the large rotating yard sprinklers that reach out 20-30 feet, but small nozzles that, usually, spray a fixed pattern (1/4; 1/2 etc) of up to 12 ft. These new nozzles are very expensive (retail for $10+, discounted to $6). However, they are beautiful, spraying out many thin streams of water. On a 1/2 circle pattern, there are probably 10 separate streams. Models are made by both Hunter and Rain Bird.

I saw these in action at several houses and was so taken with them that I swapped out all my pop-ups and fixed shrub fixed-pattern sprinklers. I bought the Hunter brand. Bad mistake. I've now removed and discarded every one. The problem is that the top of the Hunter nozzle has an aluminum ring that circles the top. Our mowing service, when using a string trimmer to clear the grass around the sprinkler, would hit the aluminum ring with the rotating plastic string. The resulting dent, although very small, would prevent the rotating part from moving.

Rain Bird's version of this sprinkler head is the R-Van. Instead of an aluminum ring, it employs a plastic ring. While I have not tried the RB R-Van, I have seen it in action and I expect the plastic ring will correct the problem the Hunter model has with an aluminum ring. I wasted over $150 on the Hunter model and a lot of time to swap out the nozzles only to replace them within a few months.