[Wayne 962]

It broke because the ground is moving quite a bit. When I say "quite a bit", I mean like 3-6 inches in different spots. Pressure has been put on the coupler here, and it broke in the weak spot.

The line is not a "pressure line" per se - every line that has liquid that is transported through it has some level of pressure? This is a return line to the pool, so it is attached to a pump and that flows to three inlets into the pool. Low pressure as there is no back force placed on the flow - if one of the pipes back to the pool gets clogged or plugged (not sure how that would ever happen), then the water would simply flow out of the other two ports.

The only issue I see with the 90-degree pipe setup is trading two connections for eight connections. In my history - the more connections one has, the more likely to have problems in the future (sometimes).

What we have now is : pipe-to-45-degree-bend-to-pipe. We'd be replacing it with pipe-90-pipe-90-pipe-90-pipe-90-pipe - quite a bit more opportunity to make a mistake or something like that.

Food for thought. I'm going to order the flex hose on Amazon - it'll be here tomorrow - so that I can take a look at it (I can always return it).

Thx

-Wayne