Sprinkler Repair Kit
By Sean O'Hara
While tending the lawn this week we managed to mangle a sprinkler head with the weed eater. This is not a happy occasion by any stretch. However, if you’re a toolmonger like us, it means a trip to the local hardware store for some tools. That’s not such a bad thing, right?
We found the Sprinkler Tool Kit from Orbit to be just what we needed to make a quick repair to our ailing lawn care system. The kit is made up of a few simple items that can help you perform sprinkler surgery. There’s a pair of heavy duty, ratchet action, plastic pipe cutters that will cut a pipe up to 1” in diameter for splicing out broken PVC pipe pieces. It also contains a T-handled PVC hole boring handle and boring attachment for putting a sprinkler head hole in PVC pipe, a medium sized flat head screw driver – sized perfectly for sprinkler head nozzle adjustments – and a small role of PVC tape to seal up leaky or cracked joints.
We’re in favor of a $12 repair kit over a call to the landscape repair company any day, especially since they will show up with tools that look, well, pretty much like what’s in this kit.
Sprinkler Repair Kit [Orbit]
July 8th, 2006 at 12:48 am
I believe what you are actually getting is a “nipple driver,” not a boring attachment. This is very useful when a pipe nipple gets broken off close to a fitting, and there is nothing left outside to grab. You simply jam this tool into the broken pipe end and unthread it. This is a very common irrgation repair and a very useful tool.
The tape is more likely PTFE (Teflon) Plumbers tape… no? If so it is used to seal threaded joints, not to repair cracked joints.
July 5th, 2007 at 11:18 am
[...] Sean wrote up a sprinkler repair kit — the same one he used earlier that week to fix his own system when it broke open and pissed all over his driveway. Hint: fixing sprinkers is much easier than you’d guess. Don’t hire someone — fix it yourself! [...]