[SEL] Old plumbing

[Edd Payne]

Hi Peter you were doing your reply same time as me.You just beet me.
EDD PAYNE
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Listerdiesel" <listerdiesel at gmail.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Old plumbing


> On 12/07/2008, Judge Tommy Turner <Lcjudge at scrtc.com> wrote:
>> Jimmy,
>>     The standard for American fittings calls for them to have a "band"
>> (flat, sharp edges, etc).  The old time fittings were either rounded edge
>> (beaded) or had nothing at all (called plain).  Many of the British 
>> Standard
>> Pipe fittings (which are metric) have the band and some of the fittings 
>> made
>> in China and India are plain with no hub or band.  You can use BSP 
>> fittings
>> but you have to run a NPT tap in them.  They correspond real well up to 1
>> 1/2 inch pipe.  I've used many of the BSP banded fittings and have never 
>> had
>> a problem with them after I run a tap in.  You can find the banded 
>> fittings
>> in England and Australia.
>>
>> Tommy Turner
>
> Tommy:
>
> Where did you get the notion that BSP threads were metric??
>
> They were always Imperial sizes, see the tables for 'most' older UK 
> threads at:
>
> http://www.stationary-engine.co.uk/Tables/Mech1.htm
>
> The ones that are loosely based on Metric are British Association (BA)
> threads, perhaps you were confusing that with BSP?
>
> Peter
> -- 
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