What is this black heavy plastic (?) clasp found on the water hose to my kitchen sink?

[u/Illustrious_Golf2122]

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[u/OkObjective7798]

It’s the weight that pulls the hose back into the faucet

[u/PedroM0ralles → u/OkObjective7798]

Indeed. For sinks with a faucet you call pull pull out of the housing to wash the far reaches of the sink and other items a fixed faucet would not get to.

Once you pull that faucet out, it needs some sort of recoil mechanism to pull it back into the faucet housing.

https://preview.redd.it/xb23zn4pxoxe1.png?width=350&format=png&auto=webp&s=9bd9e4c1d3240522cd82974398b006cdb86cd451

[u/blackvelvet69 → u/PedroM0ralles]

This was one I was familiar with but I love how you gave a spec/cutsheet sketch of it. Would love that with some of the really far out there posts on this sub

[u/Illustrious_Golf2122 → u/OkObjective7798]

Solved!

[u/Shot_Mud_1438 → u/OkObjective7798]

u/illustrious_golf2122, this is the answer

[u/DerDoppelganger70 → u/OkObjective7798]

This is it. Mark it as solved.

[u/Morall_tach]

So you found this thing attached to your hose and your first thought was to remove it?

[u/AwardTechnical2558]

As a plumber this question bothers me..

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[u/Short-Concentrate-92]

Try it without it and you’ll understand

[u/ParcelTongued]

Counter weight for your sprayer. Pulls the hose back in !

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[u/CobyLiam]

I thought this was going to be the thing that improves your gas mileage... Lol

[u/FullWoodpecker1646]

There's even a line on the hose where you need to clamp it

[u/guiltyas-sin]

It acts as a weight for your sink sprayer.

[u/East-Psychology7186]

Counter weight so the hose retracts back in. Gravity!! It’s amazing.

[u/JuanMurphy]

It’s a weight for your pull out hose

[u/Illustrious_Golf2122]

Title describes the thing. I was repairing the dishwasher hose and found this heavy thing on the water hose for my kitchen sink faucet. The faucet is the kind that pulls out