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Retired Pennsylvania Machinist Develops $39 Attachment That Turns Any Garden Hose Into a Pressure Washer
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Retired Pennsylvania Machinist Develops $39 Brass Attachment That Turns Any Garden Hose Into a Pressure Washer — Manufacturer Can’t Keep Up With Demand
By Thomas Brennan | Home & Garden | May 21, 2026
If you have an old pressure washer collecting dust somewhere in your garage, basement, or shed for half the year — keep reading.
Because what a retired American machinist from a small town outside Pittsburgh quietly put on the market last year has been creating an unusual amount of buzz in homeowner forums and Facebook gardening groups across the country.
It’s a small attachment made from solid brass. No motor. No power cord. No pump. You just screw it onto your garden hose — and the hose suddenly cleans as well as a name-brand pressure washer costing $300 or $400.
Sounds like marketing fluff? That’s what we thought too. Until we sat down with the man behind it.
Why pressure washers are the most overrated tool in the American garage
Almost every homeowner knows the routine: Come spring, the patio is covered in moss, the driveway is black with mildew, the siding is streaked with algae. So you go out and buy a pressure washer. For $250, $350, sometimes $600.
What nobody tells you:
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$300–$600 upfront
For a machine you use 4–5 times a year tops. That’s $60–$120 per use.
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25 lbs to haul out of the basement
If you have a bad back, bad knees, or are over 60, you know the drill. Just setting it up takes 10 minutes.
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Cords, extension cords, trip hazards
Never reaches the far corner. And running power across wet pavement is genuinely dangerous.
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Cracked from one cold winter
Forget to drain the residual water once and the pump cracks. Warranty? Won’t cover it.
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Loud as a lawnmower
By the third Sunday in a row, your neighbors aren’t smiling anymore. And don’t even think about using it on your car.
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Hogs half the garage
Hose reel, wand, nozzle attachments, detergents. Half a garage just for a seasonal tool.
And here’s the kicker: in independent comparison tests, most pressure washers land squarely in the middle of the pack. They’re not as powerful as people think — and they don’t clean any better than a strong water jet that’s physically focused the right way .
That’s exactly where the man we’re about to introduce comes in.
An old lathe, a piece of brass — and 18 months of stubborn shop work
His name is Dave Walker , 58, a retired tool-and-die machinist and metalworker from a small town outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For over 30 years he turned out precision brass parts in his workshop — mostly contract work for local manufacturers. Custom-threaded fittings, valves, one-off jobs nobody else could machine economically.
Visit Dave today in his shop and you’ll meet a man who’d rather work than talk. On the bench: brass blanks, sketches on graph paper, a set of calipers, an old lathe he’s been running since the ‘80s.
The idea for Jetterix came to him almost three years ago — on a Saturday morning, when his wife Linda was wrestling the heavy pressure washer out of the basement and threw her back out doing it.
„She asked me if I couldn’t just build her something smaller . Something you could screw straight onto the garden hose. I laughed and told her, ‘Linda, that’s physically impossible.’ Three weeks later I started running the numbers. And realized: actually, it’s not impossible. Nobody had just done it properly yet.“
— Dave Walker, inventor
Dave pulled out his old fluid-mechanics textbooks, tore his wife’s pressure washer down to the last bolt, and started machining prototypes on his old lathe. Then a second. Then an eighth. After 18 months and 47 prototypes , he had what he now calls the Jetterix compression chamber — a precision-milled brass nozzle that runs on plain water pressure. No motor, no electricity, no pump.
The physics: how a $39 attachment puts out more pressure than a $400 machine
The principle is called the Venturi effect — an 18th-century discovery every engineer knows, but almost no garden-tool maker actually implements correctly.
Jetterix Compression Chamber cross-section — original drawing by Dave Walker.
When water flows through a narrowing pipe, it accelerates. Same as when you put your thumb over the end of a garden hose — the stream suddenly shoots a lot farther.
Dave built that effect into three sequential chambers, each one machined more precisely than the last:
Low-pressure intake (40–60 PSI) — that’s what comes out of your hose.
Precision venturi throat — milled to 0.005 inch tolerance. This is where the water accelerates to nearly 175 mph.
High-pressure output (up to 3,000 PSI) — that’s more than most $400 pressure washers put out.
Here’s the trick: where the cheap plastic nozzles from the big-box hardware store crack after three weeks, the solid brass handles that pressure indefinitely. And because there’s no pump, no motor, and no electricity involved, there’s nothing that can break.
Measured in independent lab testing
At a standard hose pressure of 60 PSI, the Jetterix produces an effective output of up to 3,000 PSI — matching a mid-range $350 pressure washer.
What buyers say after a few weeks of using it
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„I was skeptical at first — my husband too. We had a $280 pressure washer sitting in the basement. Our son gave us the Jetterix for Easter. We did the whole patio, the driveway, and the two storage sheds in one afternoon. No power cord, no hauling the heavy machine up the stairs. My husband finally sold the old one last month.“
— Linda M., 64, Cleveland, OH
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„I run a small property-maintenance business and bought three Jetterix — one for each truck. Saves me 10 minutes of setup per job. My commercial pressure washer only comes out for really hard jobs anymore. Turns out that almost never happens.“
— Mike S., 51, maintenance contractor, Tampa, FL
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„I have arthritis in my hands and haven’t been able to hold a heavy pressure washer in years. The Jetterix weighs almost nothing. My daughter screwed it on for me — took 30 seconds. Yesterday I cleaned my walkway myself for the first time in years. I felt like a kid again.“
— Margaret F., 71, retiree, Phoenix, AZ
Common questions — what we asked the manufacturer
Q: Does the Jetterix really fit any garden hose?
Yes. The package includes a full adapter kit for every standard hose fitting — quick-connect, 1/2″, 5/8″, 3/4″ and 1″ threads. We haven’t seen a single case where a hose didn’t fit. Even old hoses from the 1990s work just fine.
Q: How hard is the installation?
Unscrew your old spray nozzle, screw the Jetterix on. 20 seconds, no tools. If you can hook up a garden hose, you can install the Jetterix.
Q: Does it work with low water pressure?
Yes — the Venturi effect amplifies whatever pressure is there. Even homes with old plumbing and weak pressure (around 40 PSI) still get the high-pressure effect. At normal municipal pressure (60–90 PSI), you’re well above any $300 pressure washer.
Q: Will the stream damage my car’s paint or my wood deck?
No. The Jetterix has an adjustable nozzle — from a soft fan spray (for cars, wood, plants) to a focused jet (for tough stains on concrete or brick). A quick guide is included in the box showing which setting to use for what.
Q: How long does it last?
Solid brass doesn’t rust and can’t crack from freezing. Dave and his team back it with a 5-year material warranty . The first test prototypes from 2023 are still running daily after more than two years of constant use.
Q: Where can I buy it? Amazon? Home Depot?
Neither. Dave sells exclusively through th…

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