- May 17th, 2020, 11:18 am
#8033
I've spent most of my 50 years working life with pipes, and every thread whether hand cut or machine made was tapered.
This last couple years everything I have bought is straight thread. Its a nightmare trying to make a straight thread joint waterproof.
Here in cyprus the most common water connecter is black polyethylene with compression nuts. Fine. But as soon as I try to connect to a brass fitting, the brass is straight thread and the plastic goes all the way in and bottoms out before coming tight. I'm actually having top hacksaw the thread shorter so I can get the fittings in the right position. And brass to brass just immediately runs all the way in by hand.
Whats going on?
This last couple years everything I have bought is straight thread. Its a nightmare trying to make a straight thread joint waterproof.
Here in cyprus the most common water connecter is black polyethylene with compression nuts. Fine. But as soon as I try to connect to a brass fitting, the brass is straight thread and the plastic goes all the way in and bottoms out before coming tight. I'm actually having top hacksaw the thread shorter so I can get the fittings in the right position. And brass to brass just immediately runs all the way in by hand.
Whats going on?