The cheapest sprinkler is the one you never throw away.
We'll be straight with you: a rebuilt brass head isn't always much cheaper than a new plastic or economy-brass unit. Here's why it wins anyway.
Price today vs. cost over time.
Walk into a farm store and a new plastic impact or import-brass head might run close to what we charge for a rebuild. On the sticker, it looks like a wash. The difference shows up the second time it wears out: the cheap unit goes in the trash and you buy another one. Your OE brass body comes back to our bench and gets rebuilt — again, and again, for decades on the same casting.
Run it over ten or twenty seasons and the math isn't close. One rebuildable brass body outlives a string of disposable replacements — and every rebuild costs less than any of them, because you're paying for wear parts and skilled labor, not a whole new unit.
Side by Side
| Rebuilt OE brass | New plastic / economy brass | |
| Upfront | Comparable — sometimes a little more | Comparable — sometimes a little less |
| When it wears | Rebuild it again — same body, new wear parts | Throw it away, buy another |
| Service life | Decades on one casting | One wear cycle |
| Performance | OE spec — pattern-tested on our bench | Varies by batch and brand |
| End of life | Rebuild or recycle the brass | Landfill |
Rebuilding is the eco-friendly option.
- Brass is endlessly recyclable — and a rebuilt body doesn't even need the smelter. The energy that went into machining it keeps working.
- Nothing goes to the landfill. Disposable plastic heads pile up; rebuilt brass goes back on the line. Even a body that's truly done gets recycled as scrap.
- Water where it belongs. A properly rebuilt, pattern-tested head puts water on the crop evenly — less waste per acre-foot.
We'll tell you when not to rebuild.
Some units come in cracked, corroded through, or worn past saving. When a body isn't worth rebuilding, we say so — and we'll set you up with a rebuilt unit from stock or genuine new hardware instead. Forty-five years of repeat customers came from calls like that.