We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Steve"
saying something like:

I need to connect to some 15mm Hep2O (i.e. plastic) pipe in my central
heating, but the pipe has a long score mark where the joint will be;

Compression fitting with some joint gunge round the olive. Bob's yer Man
from Bonkle.