Medallion Man wrote:

There wasn't any slack, the usable length of pipe was only about 140mm,
and 80mm of that was taken up with a valve.

I think the "slack" to which Ed refered was created by cutting the gap
for the fitting such that the pipe was actually a bit short of what you
would normally expect (i.e. when in place the pipe ends will not
protrude much past the olive into the fitting). The only time this would
not work would be if you could not get any latteral movement in the
pipes to allow you to get the fittting on the first pipe.


--
Cheers,

John.

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