Truelove wrote: Adapt a 1/2" or 3/4" plastic 1/4-turn valve on your garden hose. On the other end, install a long brass nipple. Close the seacock, remove the top from the strainer" Which is true you could, but having a handy length of hose and garden type push snap fittings on the Thoroflush units - then all it takes is a turn of the levers and you're off an running. Taking the tops of the strainers is something I only do for cleaning - always the possibility of being careless and damaging the gaskets etc. KISS. Incidentally as I posted elsewhere use non-toxic anti-freeze. Ron Barr Lady Brookhaven Hatteras LRC 42 KB1LFX