On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:48:32 +0000, Steve Walker wrote:

On 19/02/2019 18:05, Andy Burns wrote:
Reentrant wrote:

I thought all 40mm solvent weld/compression/pushfit pipe and fittings
were pretty much interchangeable.

"40mm" pushfit is generally 40-41mm OD, solvent is about 43mm OD, is the
38mm of the pipe you have the ID?

The chrome trimmed fitting for where the waste pipe of one of our
washbasins passes through the tiled floor fits the underfloor piping
perfectly, but the vertical, chromed plastic pipe feeding down into it
was too large and I was unable to change to something else as then it
wouldn't fit the trap and elbow! I ended up heating the chromed plastic
tube and forcing it into hole drilled into a piece of wood to reduce its
diameter.

SteveW

There must be a word for the opposite of swaging.
When I did the bathroom in solvent weld, I was about 3" short (yes, I've had
that complaint before ;-) )so swaged out the pipes and inserted a small
offcut.
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway