"Stuart" wrote in message
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My flat ( 100 years old) has the waste from both bath and wash hand
basin going in to a cast iron pipe that runs the length of the
building and serves all the flats . ....The waste pipe from the bath
is wedged in to the spigot (?) with the aid of turns of Sylglas tape
and that works OK and it is hidden anyway .

The wash hand basin waste has ,up until now,been fitted in to a
reducer similar to this Screwfix one ( but compression type) ,the
reducer being held in by a liberal quantity of Plumbers Mait .This is
hardly ideal and I am looking for ideas to improve this arrangement .
The spigot is about 60mm at the opening but tapers down so the 32mm
pipe is a fairly snug fit.......I supose I could just do what I did
before and also box it in but maybe someone can come up with a better
idea.

I would expect a pipe spigot to have a BSP female thread inside it. British
Standard pipe threads are designated by the pipe ID in inches, not the
thread OD and about 60mm sounds like 2" BSP; more specifically 2" BSPT
(tapered). If so, you should be able to get an adaptor that screws into
that, but you won't find one in the DIY sheds. You need to visit a plumbers'
supplier for that sort of fitting.

Colin Bignell