I was just giving you a hard time. You can find a 1" hose barb x 3/4" FGHT fitting
If you want it more “presentable”
I would have just reduced the bulkhead fitting to 3/4, and run a 3/4 x 3/4 elbow, and the garden hose straight into that…
I think we’ve all lost our mind critiquing plumbing down to every square inch lol It’s especially true in my case with the products I’ve been working on. I can’t bring myself to release anything when it keeps getting better and better with every little detail. At some point I feel I’ll stop one upping myself and be done by I’m my own worst critic.
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There’s not a single bulkhead in the mix. That elbow is threaded directly onto the Topaz. I’ll take barbed reducers over threaded ones any day. But either way, it’s about to get sent!
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Do what? Snap a pic of one. Like you can just twist it on there? Never seen a barb like that before.
Wait, is it the blue one in the pic above? That does look a bit different from the typical barb “ridges”. What’s that material?
The Topaz has a built in bulkhead…threaded is ideal for water supply (if you aren’t going to PVC cement it that is). I threaded an elbow into the Topaz and used all PVC components and check valves to build our dual fill setup (which was suggested to me, and is likely massive overkill, and almost never gets used…but hey, it’s on there 
). It only leaks when someone bangs it hard enough to crack something. I had a barb come loose with our water trailer hooked up to fill when I was out with COVID a couple summers ago. For some reason I happened to look at the cameras at 4:45 on a Friday, and saw it flooding the shop before the last guy in the office left for the weekend. That was a big mess (it had been dumping for 20-30 minutes), but I don’t want to guess what it would have looked like if it had run until Monday morning. 
That sucker was triple pinch clamped. Maybe needs an upgrade to those fancy screw ones I’ve seen folks using lately.
You’re a great guy, but I’m not taking it apart for you haha. Yes, the barbs ‘twist’ into place, just like a bolt. Anything different should not be legal.
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Some of them have gone to making the barb a spiral pattern. Probably scientifically more prone to leak, but I doubt it will as long as the hose is even a little bit pliable.
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Well hell. I would’ve done it for you! Nope, not fighting barbs for anyone but myself lol
That is pretty darn fancy. First I’ve seen of one that style. You kids these days get all the cool stuff. Back in my day you had to fist fight a rattlesnake in the parking lot to get cool stuff like that.
Or use a heat gun and a shmear of oil…
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Oh sorry mr big bank hank. Not everyone can afford such sophisticated tooling
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I wish! I built bicycles out of parts so I could ride it to the pawn shop to see if they had any new heavy metal cassettes every other day, if that tells you anything. That’s where my lunch money went.
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I’ll say more likely to get in there deep enough to not have issues.
Goodness. You are old. I still remember my first CD I ever bought.
You gotta have a $9.99 HF heat gun and an empty quart in the shop somewhere…
(if not, I’m sure you have a torch)
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My barbs are always in to whatever the limiter is, or I take it out and redo it. 
Don’t make me rassle you down you young whipper snapper. My first CD’s came from the pawn shop too via bicycle. Primus - Pork Soda & Carcass - Heartwork.
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you were still buying CDs when that came out? I must be old, bc I was out of college and married by then 
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Same here. Worked an entire summer delivering newspapers to buy the bike then rode it down to the pawn shop and bought myself the new Travis Tritt album. Then the bike got stolen. Loved that bike. It was a plum crazy purple Huffy.
That album came out in 2000. I was 8 lol
