My outside tap.... thoughts?

[VC]

Giving up on it now so thought i would put a post up here for ideas as autoperfection will be landing on my doorstep to detail 2 cars soon, so need to solve this

my house was built in the 70's and 2 years ago i moved in. the tap had an orange adaptor on it to allow me to click a hoselock hose end onto it and therefore meant i could wash the cars and buy a pressure washer.

well, the adaptor snapped.

the tap is a brass thing, not old, with a threaded end. i've been scouring for a new adaptor everywhere and nothing fits! i've bought almost everything from B&Q and Wyevale garden center and no joy, none of the adaptors, step ups or step downs etc will go on.

the closest i found was a 19mm one and that seems to be almost right but is just a fraction too small, almost as if it could do with being 19.5 or 20mm (a 21 is too big)

i know this is an odd question, but officially stumped now. currently suffering with a push-on-and-clamp-rubber-adaptor-piece-of-rubbish that sprays half the water up the wall and not down the hose
 
by some freak of nature has this happened to anyone else? am i just being dumb or do i need to get a plumber in to put me a new tap on?

[VC]

the offending beastie:



(and yes i know the brickwork needs repointing  perils of living on the coast)

[autoperfection.com]

We've got a local company to us called Building and Plumbing supplies who do all that sort of stuff - we could pop in and see what they've got... if there's anything that looks like it might be right we could always pop it in the post for you to try?

[VC]

this is the trouble with living in an area without decent shops like that  the views nice tho

i'm wondering wether its a metric/imperial issue?

i am worried you wont be able to use your gear

[autoperfection.com]

Well we can pop into BPS and see what we can find - if there's something that fits then hey-presto, problem solved... if not though, we'll work something out for when we're down there 

[VC]

duct tape? 

[stealthwolf]

19mm one and that seems to be almost right but is just a fraction too small, almost as if it could do with being 19.5 or 20mm (a 21 is too big)

19mm = 0.748 in
19.5mm = 0.767 in

You have a 3/4 inch tap.

[VC]

cheers dude, so adaptor wise what sort of size to i need to find? 3/4 inch? everything seems to get sold in mm's

[stealthwolf]

Something like this? clicky

[stealthwolf]

Are you able to measure the width of the spout with a ruler or something?

I wonder whether the tap's changed dimensions being out in the kinda environment you're describing?

Anyway, I guess you already bout this? clicky

(Edited the clicky)

[VC]

ooOOoo

to quote 08micsta.... "fabulous!"  

out of stock tho, at least i know what i'm looking for now

EDIT: off to measure the tap 

[stealthwolf]

^^^Updated the link as the b&q one had the thread on the outside, not the inside which is required.

[VC]

[pitch3110]

I would take the tap off the base plate (leaving that in place & replace the tap (body)

does that make sense

[VC]

i does year, but if its an usual thread at one end it would suggest it would be at the base plate to meaning a new tap wouldnt go on, meaning a plumbing route. the previous adaptor was just a cheap bit of plastic, one of those would be a much more economical route

thanks for the idea though, it may well be the route i have to take