On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:50:43 +0000, Lurch wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 06:14:35 +0000, Markus Splenius
strung together this:

Thread size. For some reason all the pipes have gone metric but
anything threaded is still imperial. 15mm fittings = 1/2" threads.

Wonder why that is? What if you get a french threaded coupler? Would
that really confuse a UK plumber? :-)

Confused me first time around, had some turn up on some Armitage
toilet cisterns, bloody annoying!

It's not so much the thread that is frogified but the size.
It's 3/8 BSP which is not a common size in UK plumbing.

The 15mm-3/8"F couplers are becoming more widely available.


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