What quality of hose, fittings and connections will it have?
More expensive machines should have both the water inlet fitting that your hose connection goes on to and the high pressure outlet of the pump made of brass. Plastic breaks and aluminium corrodes. Likewise all the connection of the high pressure hose, trigger gun and detachable lances and accessories should be either brass or stainless steel. Other metals may corrode or seize up and plastic ‘push & twist’ bayonet connections are weaker than brass and prone to problems. ALL Kranzle machines have brass water inlet fittings (with an in line water filter) and brass screw connections that seal on an O ring so only need to be done up finger tight. No tools are required to undo hoses, trigger guns or change lances. Where possible buy a machine with a rubber coated steel braided high pressure hose. These are more durable than cotton braided thermoplastic hoses and will last a lot longer… provided you don’t pull on kinked hoses or continually drive over them, that will wreck any hose! All Kra
