Looking for a part that may not exist

[install4you]

Hello everyone.

I'll start by repeating THANKS to everyone who has helped me in the past.
I hope this the right forum (General) for posting this. I wondered if it fit in plumbing at all.

In my volunteer work with disaster relief we use a hot water pressure washer in our field kitchens. Where water exits the heater the assembly of sensor, soap pick up, main hose, and all the quick disconnects sticks out so long it creates downward leverage on itself. This causes excess wear & tear on the O-rings and spurting hot water. Part of my solution was to make a 90 elbow pointing down the first thing after the safety sensor.

The second part of my proposed solution is to insert (what I'll call) a ball & socket swivel. The best example I can think of is the ball & socket where a shower head attaches to the pipe.

I've searched a lot! I'm beginning to think such an animal doesn't exist. Has anyone ever heard of such a connector? Anyone have other ideas how we can provide strain relief?

Thanks for any help.
Eddie

 

[CT-18]

It would probably be easier to get suggestions with some pics of the device

 

[install4you]

You can see the sensor unit near the top of the heater. The soap pickup has quick disconnects on either side. Add the pressure hose & you can see how far out that sticks. If I removed the quick disconnect from the sensor & add a down elbow that will help a lot. I wanted a ball/socket swivel on the elbow, then the quick disconnect, that would relievy most of the strain.

 

[Mitchell-DIY-Guy]

What you need to do is go to a car wash supplier such as https://www.dultmeier.com/ or https://www.kleen-ritecorp.com/ They have a variety of fluid handling parts designed to operate at high pressures and high temperatures. I’m sure you can find suitable parts there.

I had a large number of high pressure swivels at my car wash. I always kept extras on hand, and always got the rebuildable kind. High pressure and temperature with swivel action is severe duty, and rebuilding them was a frequent thing.

 

[install4you]

WOW! I just scanned those sites & their catalogs. If they don't have what I'm looking for I doubt it exists. If it doesn't exist I'm sure they can tell me how to solve the problem.
THANKS so much for taking the time to reply. If you ever need advice about hanging stuff on the wall just send me a PM. I gave some long answers about the subject in another thread. Search my username.
Eddie

 

[Mitchell-DIY-Guy]

Thanks. I hang things on walls all day long! In fact going to hang a massive 500 spool thread cabinet (for a quilter) this morning. 8’ long weighing well over 100#. Requires a hardwood French cleat screwed into six studs…

 

[install4you]

I had a mirror from 1700's, 9' tall, 5' wide, 250#, 38" off the floor. Had a fabricator make a steel shelf 4" high on wall side with a 1/2" lip on the front. Hit 4 studs with 2 5/16 X 4" lag screws each.
The top over lapped the flat part of +/- 18" stack of crown moulding. I use the aluminum strip that's for where carpet meets vinyl as a French cleat when it's enough. Since I only needed to keep the top from tipping out, that worked, but I used long screws through the 1 X crown into studs on the wall side.
It took 4 big movers (1 was about 6'4", 280) to put the mirror in place.
I shared details in hopes that the info might help someone with their big challenge.
Mitchell, if you want to discuss the hanging business let me know. It's hard to find people with that particular mindset.
Eddie

 

[Mitchell-DIY-Guy]

Two recent hanging projects (aside from other recent simple 30+ artwork installations). The thread cabinet, and a massive architectural salvage piece from Egypt.