Thread: Pipe gauge ??? for you plumbing boys

• $2.00 per fitting- nipples, tees, elbows,
• class b copper is what you need,
• 1/2 inch - $30 check with your local
• 3/4 inch - $45 supplier on these
• Brass ball valve $5.00

• Use 15% silver soder due to high stresses involved ( it's more flexible)
• run pipe at slight fall to drain end ideal 20mm/M, no less than 10mm/M
• Use gas thread tape and gas thread seal paste.

Prices vary from state to state quite a bit so you'll need to ring a plumbing supplier.d

So thats the reason we don't have enough hospitals!
D J - sterilized them 20 years ago!

Originally Posted by bricks

• $2.00 per fitting- nipples, tees, elbows,
• class b copper is what you need,
• 1/2 inch - $30 check with your local
• 3/4 inch - $45 supplier on these
• Brass ball valve $5.00

• Use 15% silver soder due to high stresses involved ( it's more flexible)
• run pipe at slight fall to drain end ideal 20mm/M, no less than 10mm/M
• Use gas thread tape and gas thread seal paste.

Prices vary from state to state quite a bit so you'll need to ring a plumbing supplier.d

Thanks bricks , that gives me a starting point, won't look like a complete dill when I walk in the plumbing supplies joint.

Originally Posted by Linden Hardy

So thats the reason we don't have enough hospitals!
D J - sterilized them 20 years ago!

you're a funny man Linden, didn't build them quite that big, but did build one big enough to drive a couple of Mini's into .

Originally Posted by bricks

Use gas thread tape and gas thread seal paste.

What's the difference between gas and "normal" thread tape?
I have both, the gas is yellow and the normal is pink (got to worry about you plumbers) or white, but other than colour they look pretty much the same.

May I just add that off your main 3/4 run, take the 1/2 branches off the top and back down, this will eliminate NEARLY all condensation going down to the valve and still run the main line with slight fall with a tail pipe at the end. Dont use white tape, its rubbish. You can use either the pink or yellow stuff, the yellow stuff is formulated a little differently as hydrocarbon gases for some reason has a reaction to something in the tape which makes it harden and crack. As Bricks said type B copper tube is the way to go, I belive that 5% silver will do the job, compressed air wont out perform the solder and its around $12 cheaper PER STICK!!!!

$45 for a length of 3/4, man im driving to Adelaide to buy a sling!!!!
$45 is the absolute dirt cheapest you'd be lucky to find here as a plumber off the street and it will be the korean or chinese stuff. A mate of mine who works for a large construction mob says they buy it by the container from china in 12m lengths, at around $1 per metre for 3/4!!!!

Cheers W/P, did have the drop lines coming off the top in mind, with the drain valve about a foot or so below the connection point. Also going to have the mainline looped so that it is endless.

Thanks for the explaining the differences on the tape too.

I do have quite a few rods of different grades so I have several choices and won't be needing to buy any, also have at least 50 rods of 56% silver solder, so could use that , at $19 to $21 a stick I don't think so I'll save that for the higher quality work .

Unless you you have the tubr already go for the plastic airline tube it's great stuff no soldering just conects with screw fittings drain valves atc all available to suit

Dj the product I refered to is MaXair, as I said if you don't already have tubing give this a look it's the best and simplest system I have ever used

Cheers China, will have a look into it