[SEL] pipe taps, threads, and fittings

[Richard Strobel]

Thanks for the info Rich.  Friend of mine just built his wife a clothesline 
using 2" Sch. 80 with a "T" at the top.  Time will tell.

A big welcome back from me also.

RickinMt.
PS: Where's your "Work and play safe?"




> Hi, guys,
>
> I have been absent from here for about two years but through the good
> offices of John Culp I have returned. My old Pentium 1 computer was so
> slow I couldn't participate in a lot of things in general on the
> Internet simply because the processor speed was so slow. I upgraded to
> a 2.6 GHz Celeron computer and now it is a lot better, just my
> extremely rural phone line now being the limiting factor by not
> supporting a decent modem speed.
>
> When I use a pipe tap I run it in about half way and then check for
> thread engagement of the fitting of the part that screws into it.
> According to Machinery's Handbook the minimum number of turns of pipe