Camco Water Bandit - Features a Flexible Silicone Sleeve for 1" Faucets & Male Water Hose Connection that Fits 3/4-11.5NH Hose Threads - Works with Damaged Faucet Threads/Threadless Faucets (22484)

This is my second order. I'm much happier with my second order and it works. I was very happy with this new "model." It had a different grey instead of gold screw on base. I hooked it up to the faucet and didn't need a clamp and nothing burst. This hose adapter is very easy to use. You just screw it on the end of the hose and slip the "sleeve" over your faucet spout. Do NOT turn the water on high. You'll want a slower flow. This isn't great for car washes, but I use it to fill up the RV tank from my kitchen or bathroom faucet and it works for that. This is a useful product and it's handy to have around if you have a camper. (I had one before and like other people experienced, it exploded and cracked. I was able to use a small ring clamp to wear it out to the end and still use it until I lost it. It did help me use a hose on my wonky faucet with an abnormal spout. I haven't had any problems with the most recent one I ordered.)

We've used the Water Bandit and like how it works, so bought it again for new camper in new location. This is basically for refilling the fresh tank from a campground spigot that is not threaded. It works if the spigot is round and will fit inside it, and is near enough to run the hose. Our first try, at Cedar Point National Forest in NC, failed because the spigot was square and too big, and besides, the communal spigot was beyond the reach of our 60-foot hose. Oh well.

I bought this for the same reason as one of the previous reviewers, to attach a short outdoor hose to my deep sink faucet so I can wash my dog with warm water outside. That reviewer was basically happy with how it functioned, but I'm not personally . The item itself seems well made and useful, but it constantly pops off the deep sink faucet once the water is on. You have to keep the water at barely over a trickle, or.the pressure blam it off, forcing you to go replace it in the middle of washing the dog. I've made great effort to seat the sleeve deeply, and be super conscious that there's no restriction to flow -- for example, using the spray head was quickly out of the question. So when it's actually working, I just have a very tiny stream of water, no spray head, and certainly no pressure. It does function, so that's better than nothing, but only barely. A side note -- the categories for stars are "Durability", "Lightweight" and "Value for Money". They have little to do with the actual ability to use the thing. I only responded to "Value for Money" and gave it two stars. Revised: It's now a month later, and after 1x daily use, it's not working at all. Just pops off immediately, even with all above tricks used. Now one star, would be zero if possible.

This is a shaped rubber tube that fits over a faucet, and lets you screw on a standard garden hose. The opening for the faucet is a cone, lined with molded rings (not threads, they don't slope). The top of it is about 1 inch in interior diameter, and it slopes down to about 3/4" at the inside bottom. The depth of the faucet cone is about 7/8", so that's as far as a faucet can go into it. The molded rings intrude into that volume. The hole going through to the far end is about 1/2" in diameter. The faucet part can stretch a little. I'm not sure how far it can expand, but I estimate it will go up to about 1 1/4". This is held onto the faucet only by friction. So the slightest back-pressure will blow it off. I and other reviewers are using hose clamps to prevent this. You want two clamps, one to hold it on the faucet, and one to keep the brass hose thread part from blowing out. This is for occasional, temporary hookups with no valve downstream (ie refilling my waterbed). Don't try to use this for long term connections, or where there are downstream valves (a dishwasher would be very bad).

High quality product and fair price.

This product is fine if you use it EXACTLY as the instructions indicate. But it's a pain in the rear to do so. Do NOT add a hose clamp to this to hold it on the faucet and apply water pressure by having your hose end not open! IT WILL RIP OPEN and spray water all over the room!!! Don't ask me how I know.... If you're OK with walking back and forth to the faucet to turn it on and off every 5 seconds then great but if you need to stop water flow at the hose end this will shoot off the faucet, dropping it to the floor and causing a mess. THAT'S what caused me to put a hose clamp on it at the faucet. Then I turned on the water, walked to the end of the hose where the water was coming out, shut off the water with the hose nozzle an BLAMMO, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE! The boot split and was shooting water in countless directions and making a huge mess! No matter what Ibdid with this, it caused me to clean up water every flipping time! Wish I never bought this! I basically hate this thing. It's useless for what I needed and I bought something else that screws onto any faucet and let's me turn on the water and then operate the hose end nozzle on and off as needed like using a regular hose. This thing has a very narrow use case scenario list....of which, nothing normal people do with a hose is on it.

great holder

What a convenient wait to fill a water jug in so many public bathrooms. So many parks do not have water faucets anymore to try to curb water waste (and cost) but with the Water Bandit I can easily get some water to refill my tanks in all places. Before plugging the Water Bandit I thoroughly sanitize the faucet to which I will connect it. I have a 4ft long hose and I can fill my water carrier. The flexible plastic allows for a great fit with all the faucets I encountered so far. I do recommend this to anyone who needs to fill water containers in odd places

Does not connect to all types of taps. Works only with male type/connector taps.

Lo sto usando con un contenitore d'acqua e ci infilo il tubo di gomma del giardino per innaffiare le piante. Si adatta a qualsiasi diametro che ho , facile e veloce per cambi repentini. Quattro stelle perché ancora non so quanto durerà la plastica.

Works as described but doesn't have mush resistance to back pressure. We intended to it as a quick connect for a low consumption washer machine connection. It failed because any kind of back pressure it will not hold. It needs a free flow without any restriction. That's not a fault of item just our intended use. Will use when camping though.

Funciona perfeitamente, excelente produto

Item as described. Good quality. Prompt delivery.