Cool stuff !! I have found three of those brass water nozzles just this year, and like coinandrelicman sez..they last forever! I cleaned mine up on the wire wheel, oiled it, replaced an o-ring and put a new rubber washer in it (seems like a lot of work-but hey..it was free!!)...then the wife commandeered it, as the kids have lost approximately three dozen hose nozzles this summer..lol..and she loves it ! where the hose is not long enough to reach the garden, that baby shoots a great stream of water!..thx for sharing RJ..ddf