Garden hose to ground soaker attachment

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I was watering my wife's raised vegetable garden while she was away and had a hard time getting good volume of water without blowing the soil away. I needed something that would allow me to put a controllable volume of water into her garden beds at a low pressure to not erode the soil. I looked at commercially available soaker and drip hoses, but I didn't need anything nearly as long as they were selling. I only needed something that would attach to the end of her spray handle which has garden threads on the nozzle. After some testing and prototype that didn't slow the water down enough, I settled on a two cylinder design. The inner cylinder starts slowing the water down but it still has quite a bit of force. I setup another cylinder around it with holes off set 45 deg around the z axis so the inner holes would hit the wall of the outer cylinder to further reduce their pressure and force. The result is a high volume low pressure output. What was taking me minutes to do before now takes seconds, exactly what I wanted! I struggled to get the garden hose threads right, 0.75 11.5 NH thread, until I found a Fusion forum where someone made an XML for this thread and it worked beautifully!