Male or female quick connect/disconnect first?

On the way home today I was thinking about how some cleaners have the male qc on their wand and others the female quick connect. I personally have the female qc on the wand. I have always done it this way because back in the day ( 1980's) we didn't wan't to drag the male qc over the ground when we wrapped up the hose because it would mess up the seal between connectors. I have seen wands for sale with the male qc attached. I don't think it makes any difference. Not the most mind bending subject, but what the hell, which way is your set up and why?

For a long time HM had their hoses set up with the male qc on the unit then the line going to the wand had female qc on both ends with male on the wand.
PC had female ends from the unit all the way to wand with male end on wand.
I don't think it really matters.

yeah doesnt matter

the only reason I stuck with females on the tools is when reeling the line in I dont have to worry about crud getting inside the female and having to clean it off.

/shrug whatever though lol

I've always had a Female on TM, and all job side of hose ends, and then males on all the tools.

With Joe's cool covers now (and the predecessor to it, overpriced QD with cover on it that the local suppliers rip us off for), you don't have to worry about dragging dropping or dinging female QD's anymore..or getting burned trying to connect them.   

Plus the males are cheaper and u have more of them because they are on each tool.

Always ran males on the tools...they don't wear out as often as the females so I don't need to change them as often. The females get changed out with the new pressure hose.

Really doesn't matter.

Ah yes back in the day. Chip goes way back.
I remember too, up til the Prochem Titanium, most wands came with a low quality trigger valve like the K-valve or one of PMFs.
Jets were and still are largely short-lfe brass. Most suppliers, no ALL suppliers I know of still go cheap, so much so that PMF still asks if we want a QD installed on the wand.  It was a way to leave the door open for suppliers to install some cheapo Chinese QD. Most cleaners didn't know any better.
But with the PC Tio, the it was design for the owner of a franchise, so yeah he was looking for better components. The Prochem Quadjet came from his desires too. He had the long tall Titanium made for the OOs and the short & heavy Quadjet made for the abusive techs. But both wands came complete with the best valve of the day, an inline strainer behind the trigger valve and a decent Parker Hansen male QD. These two wands came that way, really put all the regular suppliers to shame.
With guys like me and Greenie taking it further, putting on there what real cleaners wanted and needed. I was doing the Stubby check valve & jet screen and Greenie was perfecting the shear kit. All our wands had inline strainers behind the best trigger valve , the one made by Westpak. They called it the angle valve. Greenie called the FeatherTouch and I called it the SoftTouch.
We even made a spacer kit so to be able to install the Soft Touch onto the Prochem wands. 1,000s of cleaners have done it, elinminating the 'popping' at high heat of the old style Prochem trigger. Newbies to the wand game like Rob Allen started following our lead and soon enuf the Soft Touch was the Industry's trigger of choice.  Erik with the Zipper went with an even higher end trigger but now he installs the Soft Touch as one of his 'improvements'.  Helped him cut his cost. We were hoping the Zipper would come down too, but... Lately I've finally given in to the brass version of the Soft Touch... always fought it even though Steve, past Pres. of Westpak assured me over & over it would hold up. For several years now, it has held up, so now that's the one I recommend. Costs less too, only $25. Like the Joe valve, "forged brass" is not your everyday machined brass. Forge it and it will withstand pretty high temps & pressures.  Thanks to the PC series, most of the better wands have been getting the Soft Touch a strainer and a decent QD.
I've made my own strainer and been putting the stainless male Foster and all stainless jets & Stubbys on all the better wands I make like the VT series and  PMF Titanium. But heck why not all the tools? 
Bout the only thing brass anymore is the wands that regular suppliers sell. Like cuffs, most suppliers still manage to stock cheap so even after they double the price for themselves, the price is still cheap enough for broke dick cleaners.  Same with vac hose. Very few suppliers stock Amflex cuz it would cost them more then they couldn't double their money; it would be too high for cleaners.  But more & more cleaners are becoming 'real' and demanding these better items. 


Now guys like Charlie are getting all fancy on us....

 
It's all because some suppliers are willing to cater to what real cleaners actually want.
It started with Prochem wands and a Franchisor and innovative cleaners like Greenie, guys willing to make things work better.

Nowadays we'll make it any whichaway you want it. No problem...










We just need to make sure to support to originators (and not to copy cats) if we want them to keep coming up with the things RCs really want.

We always ran male at the truck & female on the tools. I learned cleaning (and still do) mostly commercial accounts, for most of my career with rotary extractors and found that this puts the female riding over metal thresholds of commercial doors hose end first so it doesn't pop the solution hoses apart. I also found that as long as I use quality fittings such as Parker or something from Joe the males always need changed much more frequently than the females.