[MikeVillages]

Local place for unusual irrigation supplies?
Just had gutters put on and want to replace the regular rain sensor mount with the gutter mount and keep the original rain sensor. Found the gutter mount on a few web sites but with shipping it more then doubles the price.
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[CarlR33]

SiteOne Landscape in Leesburg carries them but they are out and it says Ocala has some. You might call them for options, if they can send on to their store or other stores, etc.
https://www.siteone.com/en/sgm-hunte...ik-rfc/p/99472

[MikeVillages]

Originally Posted by CarlR33

SiteOne Landscape in Leesburg carries them but they are out and it says Ocala has some. You might call them for options, if they can send on to their store or other stores, etc.
https://www.siteone.com/en/sgm-hunte...ik-rfc/p/99472

Thank you. I'll give it a try.

[retiredguy123]

Amazon is a good source for most of that irrigation stuff. Also, sprinklerwarehouse.com.

[Maker]

Also try supplyhouse.com
Typ one of the lowest cost online, but I do not see the gutter mount separately there. They do show the Hunter MINI-CLIK rain sensor for $28. Since they do age in the Florida sun, if you are going to spend the time to climb up, maybe consider getting a new sensor with its mount.

[villagetinker]

I would also try ACE as they typically have a good selection of irrigation products.

[thevillages2013]

Originally Posted by MikeVillages

Local place for unusual irrigation supplies?
Just had gutters put on and want to replace the regular rain sensor mount with the gutter mount and keep the original rain sensor. Found the gutter mount on a few web sites but with shipping it more then doubles the price.
Shared album - Mike Nexus - Google Photos

You may not need to replace the whole sensor, I replaced the cork wafers in mine and it works like a champ. Ordered them on Amazon about $11. Also the sensor has a dial on it that when fully open it allows watering sooner after a rain and the opposite when closed

[Rocksnap]

I second Site One landscaping supply. They have 2 location very close to each other. 1201 Thomas Ave has some good fertilizer for St Augustine grass. The other location doesn’t carry fertilizer.

[nn0wheremann]

Originally Posted by MikeVillages

Local place for unusual irrigation supplies?
Just had gutters put on and want to replace the regular rain sensor mount with the gutter mount and keep the original rain sensor. Found the gutter mount on a few web sites but with shipping it more then doubles the price.
Shared album - Mike Nexus - Google Photos

Just get some pipe strap at the hardware store and make your own. A vice, and a pair of pliers, ans a couple of nuts and bolts are all the tools you need. Once you twist it into shape, paint it so it won’t rust.

[RoadToad]

This work:
Amazon.com

Originally Posted by MikeVillages

Local place for unusual irrigation supplies?
Just had gutters put on and want to replace the regular rain sensor mount with the gutter mount and keep the original rain sensor. Found the gutter mount on a few web sites but with shipping it more then doubles the price.
Shared album - Mike Nexus - Google Photos

[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.

[NoMoSno]

This place is local and can get anything you need:
Florida Irrigation Supply Inc. | Hunter Industries

[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.

[DrHitch]

Mike,
You might find it a lot cheaper to simply replace the entire system with a Rachio irrigation system that is Wi-Fi based and listens to the weather radios instead of having a silly little rooftop rain sensor.