Pythons not Monty or otherwise

[babblefish1960]

It has come to my attention that the catastrophic failure of the venturi cone located within the questionable attachment for the sink end of the python hose, is something of a rather large and messy situation in which panic is often a good response(gets the blood going and the feet moving and the onlookers yelling about water damage and nieghbours unwittingly living underneath thousands of pounds of water storage devices).

To this end I may suggest that if it is a recent purchase, return the offending part to your LFS, elsewise, contact Python people(not Monty's) and express with glowering your disapproval of the "weak link" in the plumbing, and mayhap, they will respond in kind, or kindly respond, with the fresh new venturi destined to separate from within further down the road.

It amuses me that the same part in my Lee's brand hose has never hinted at failure and it is many years older than the pretty green one. In fact, upon my stressful olympic water event, I used the Lee's connector to continue on my mission of cleanliness without involving the floors.

[dpatte]

well, i think everyone here is a silly bunt

[artw]

so this was what David was referring to when he was talking about the plastic part of the Python that attaches to the bathtub faucet.
Babblefish, DON'T PANIC!  It is but a flesh wound.   The APW will be around shortly to fix your python.

[BigDaddy]

I need to see a picture of this

[Underwater]

I have heard of (but not experienced) the faucet connector on the python springing a leak.

The kind gentleman at Petsandponds.com told me they no longer sell python due to the poorly manufactured faucet pump.  They instead sell Lee's gravel vacuum, which is reputedly better made (although he did point out that the faucet pump will fail eventually, just the Lee's is generally more resiliant). 

I always wondered why these things are made from plastic 

[artw]

I use the Walmart brand waterbed drain and fill pump which IIRC is the same thing as the Monty Pythonesque version.

BigDaddy I had the same failure (with the waterbed one)  but I can be less Periodically paradoxical and largely verbose than BB1960 and indicate that it was the bottom part of the pump that broke off and a thin water jet bounced off the bottom of the ceiling, flew across the room and made quite a mess of the dishes until I heard it over the music and turned the faucet off

[BigDaddy]

The only catastrophe I have ever had with a Python was letting the pressure build up too much in the unit, causing the ball joint [and a few gallons of water] to be fired into the ceiling of the kids bedroom.

Of course, this happened just as I was about to turn off the water to the unit ... go figure 

[dpatte]

the lee one broken on me in exactly the same way as the python.

the reason they fail is called 'planned obsolescene' and is tought to most marketing students as 'good business'. So much for capitalism.