Lost $65 on a cheap pressure washer attachment for the tool library

Bought a turbo nozzle for our library's gas pressure washer because the regular one was taking forever. It blew apart on the third use, plastic housing shattered. We're in Austin and that $65 could have gone toward a decent brand name one instead. Anyone else get burned by budget add-ons for shared tools?

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the_zara22d ago

Has anyone else noticed that cheap pressure washer stuff is basically a lottery lately? I bought a foam cannon off Amazon for like $20 and it literally cracked on the first use, just sitting there hooked up. The plastic felt like it was made from recycled yogurt cups. For a shared tool library situation, that's rough because you need stuff to hold up to different people using it. I remember our local tool library had a similar issue with a cheap concrete mixer attachment that lasted two jobs before the gearbox grenaded. It's like these companies know they're selling to weekend warriors and just use the thinnest plastic they can get away with. Sometimes I wonder if it's better to just save up for the real stuff, especially when you're dealing with high pressure and water.

amy_murphy1522d ago

Oh come on, it cracked on the first use? That's rough but maybe you just got a dud. I've had cheap pressure washer stuff last me years, you just gotta treat it halfway decent. Plastic is plastic, it's not like the expensive stuff is made of titanium or something. And for a tool library, people are gonna beat on anything you get, cheap or expensive. The concrete mixer thing grenading after two jobs sounds like someone used it wrong, not a quality issue. I just don't see how spending more money guarantees anything breaks less when the main problem is user error.