Last summer I was at a farm auction, and bought a whole stack of plastic
pipe. Most was rolled up, but a few were unwound and thus messy. No one
was very interested, because the stack was pretty messy due to the
unwound ones. So, I got the whole pile for a few bucks.

A few rolls are obviously poly pipe made for underground water supply
(black), but theres a roll of red, orange, and others that are 1/2 or
3/4" sizes as well as a roll of 1" red. Also a bunch of (unrolled) 3/8"
clear.

I think the clear stuff is some sort of dairy tubing used for milking
machines. But I'm not sure about that red or orange stuff. There is no
markings or words on it.

Is there any way to determine if any of this is PEX?

I dont really need it at the moment, but I'd like to try to identify
what I have.

For the price I paid, that black poly pipe alone was worth it, and that
3/8 clear stuff is good for tranferring gasoline, and hose for pump
insecticide sprayers, and other odds and ends around the farm. I already
got my money's worth from that clear stuff alone. But I'd still like to
determine what that other stuff is.....

On 2/10/2016 6:27 PM, wrote:
Last summer I was at a farm auction, and bought a whole stack of plastic
pipe. Most was rolled up, but a few were unwound and thus messy. No one
was very interested, because the stack was pretty messy due to the
unwound ones. So, I got the whole pile for a few bucks.

A few rolls are obviously poly pipe made for underground water supply
(black), but theres a roll of red, orange, and others that are 1/2 or
3/4" sizes as well as a roll of 1" red. Also a bunch of (unrolled) 3/8"
clear.

I think the clear stuff is some sort of dairy tubing used for milking
machines. But I'm not sure about that red or orange stuff. There is no
markings or words on it.

Is there any way to determine if any of this is PEX?

I dont really need it at the moment, but I'd like to try to identify
what I have.

For the price I paid, that black poly pipe alone was worth it, and that
3/8 clear stuff is good for tranferring gasoline, and hose for pump
insecticide sprayers, and other odds and ends around the farm. I already
got my money's worth from that clear stuff alone. But I'd still like to
determine what that other stuff is.....


Burning a piece can give you some idea. Polyethylene will smell waxy
but polyvinyl chloride will have an acrid smell due to presence of HCl
PVC is more readily attacked by solvents while PE is not. Put a piece
in acetone and see if it is attacked.

PEX is crosslinked polyethylene and I suppose above advice would not
differentiate between PE and PEX.

On 02/10/2016 05:27 PM, wrote:
Last summer I was at a farm auction, and bought a whole stack of plastic
pipe. Most was rolled up, but a few were unwound and thus messy. No one
was very interested, because the stack was pretty messy due to the
unwound ones. So, I got the whole pile for a few bucks.




snip


With PEX , the color is more for your convenience as you can use white
for everything.

However you may want to use blue for cold water and red for hot

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:27:21 -0600, wrote:

Is there any way to determine if any of this is PEX?

Look along the pipe for markings.

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:52:34 -0500, Frank "frank wrote:

Burning a piece can give you some idea. Polyethylene will smell waxy
but polyvinyl chloride will have an acrid smell due to presence of HCl
PVC is more readily attacked by solvents while PE is not. Put a piece
in acetone and see if it is attacked.

PEX is crosslinked polyethylene and I suppose above advice would not
differentiate between PE and PEX.

Thanks for the advice. One thing I never understood is the use of the
word "crosslinked". What exactly does that mean?

I'll have to try these suggestions. I do wonder what would happen if
this was PE, (Not PEX) and I was to install some of it as water pipe,
using regular PEX fittings and clamps? When weather allows, I want to
run some water lines in my barn and would like to use what I have. This
will not be left under pressure, since it will just be connected to the
barn hydrant with a piece of garden hose, when needed to fill stock
tanks. Once the tanks are filled, the water hose will be disconnected,
so all water can drain out (to prevent freezing) in cold weather. I
intend to run this so all pipe slopes toward the hydrant, so it drains
out as soon as I disconnect that short piece of hose.

But if it's NOT PEX, then I suppose I'd be better using regular hose
clamps and barbed fittings. That's why I am trying to determine what I
have.

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:56:20 -0600, philo wrote:

On 02/10/2016 05:27 PM, wrote:
Last summer I was at a farm auction, and bought a whole stack of plastic
pipe. Most was rolled up, but a few were unwound and thus messy. No one
was very interested, because the stack was pretty messy due to the
unwound ones. So, I got the whole pile for a few bucks.




snip


With PEX , the color is more for your convenience as you can use white
for everything.

However you may want to use blue for cold water and red for hot

I have never seen "WHITE" PEX. I have seen completed jobs where only
blue was used for both hot and cold. If I was doing a PEX plumbing job,
I'd prefer to use both colors. You have to buy it anyhow, so why not buy
both. That's why I'm thinking the red stuff I have might be PEX.
I sure do wonder what that orange stuff is though....

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:25:58 -0600, wrote:

One thing I never understood is the use of the
word "crosslinked". What exactly does that mean?

The Internet has more information than you can imagine, if you look.

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:31:20 -0600, wrote:

I have never seen "WHITE" PEX.

I have. Used to extend red or blue when needed in my house and red was
not available that day.

On 02/10/2016 06:31 PM, wrote:


With PEX , the color is more for your convenience as you can use white
for everything.

However you may want to use blue for cold water and red for hot

I have never seen "WHITE" PEX. I have seen completed jobs where only
blue was used for both hot and cold. If I was doing a PEX plumbing job,
I'd prefer to use both colors. You have to buy it anyhow, so why not buy
both. That's why I'm thinking the red stuff I have might be PEX.
I sure do wonder what that orange stuff is though....





I just bought white when I replaced a section of pipe in my house...
as they say, installing PEX is "no sweat".

Worked the first time with not a leak.

I sure do wonder what that orange stuff is though....



http://www.tscstores.com/RADIANT-OXY...x#.VrvdkC5uldg

... maybe ?



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On 2/10/2016 7:25 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:52:34 -0500, Frank "frank wrote:

Burning a piece can give you some idea. Polyethylene will smell waxy
but polyvinyl chloride will have an acrid smell due to presence of HCl
PVC is more readily attacked by solvents while PE is not. Put a piece
in acetone and see if it is attacked.

PEX is crosslinked polyethylene and I suppose above advice would not
differentiate between PE and PEX.

Thanks for the advice. One thing I never understood is the use of the
word "crosslinked". What exactly does that mean?

I'll have to try these suggestions. I do wonder what would happen if
this was PE, (Not PEX) and I was to install some of it as water pipe,
using regular PEX fittings and clamps? When weather allows, I want to
run some water lines in my barn and would like to use what I have. This
will not be left under pressure, since it will just be connected to the
barn hydrant with a piece of garden hose, when needed to fill stock
tanks. Once the tanks are filled, the water hose will be disconnected,
so all water can drain out (to prevent freezing) in cold weather. I
intend to run this so all pipe slopes toward the hydrant, so it drains
out as soon as I disconnect that short piece of hose.

But if it's NOT PEX, then I suppose I'd be better using regular hose
clamps and barbed fittings. That's why I am trying to determine what I
have.


Crosslinked means the otherwise linear polymer chains are chemically
bound to each other. PEX with heat will soften but not melt like PE
does. Crosslinking extends the use temperature maybe 20 deg. C.

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:19:59 -0500, Frank "frank wrote:

Crosslinked means the otherwise linear polymer chains are chemically
bound to each other. PEX with heat will soften but not melt like PE
does. Crosslinking extends the use temperature maybe 20 deg. C.

PEX can even freeze and not burst. It expands and contracts better
than copper. Even used in NG lines underground, under streets. Same
with water irrigation lines in desert climates.

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 02:50:57 GMT, "
wrote:

Oren wrote:

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:25:58 -0600, wrote:

One thing I never understood is the use of the
word "crosslinked". What exactly does that mean?

The Internet has more information than you can imagine, if you look.


You still ****ing the little Amish boy you let drive your tractor,
Home Guy? (Mad Cow + many nym shifts)

Thought you had me kill filed after you were exposed for truth. Your
Agent filter broke for a moment or what, bitch? Use your modem dial up
connection to read about PEX pipe on line.

wrote in message
...
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:56:20 -0600, philo wrote:

On 02/10/2016 05:27 PM, wrote:
Last summer I was at a farm auction, and bought a whole stack of plastic
pipe. Most was rolled up, but a few were unwound and thus messy. No one
was very interested, because the stack was pretty messy due to the
unwound ones. So, I got the whole pile for a few bucks.




snip


With PEX , the color is more for your convenience as you can use white
for everything.

However you may want to use blue for cold water and red for hot

I have never seen "WHITE" PEX. I have seen completed jobs where only
blue was used for both hot and cold. If I was doing a PEX plumbing job,
I'd prefer to use both colors. You have to buy it anyhow, so why not buy
both. That's why I'm thinking the red stuff I have might be PEX.
I sure do wonder what that orange stuff is though....

Orange could be OLD natural gas piping, this color was used before utility
color codes were standardized. Now they use yellow piping to denote natural
gas.

Frank posted for all of us...



On 2/10/2016 6:27 PM, wrote:
Last summer I was at a farm auction, and bought a whole stack of plastic
pipe. Most was rolled up, but a few were unwound and thus messy. No one
was very interested, because the stack was pretty messy due to the
unwound ones. So, I got the whole pile for a few bucks.

A few rolls are obviously poly pipe made for underground water supply
(black), but theres a roll of red, orange, and others that are 1/2 or
3/4" sizes as well as a roll of 1" red. Also a bunch of (unrolled) 3/8"
clear.

I think the clear stuff is some sort of dairy tubing used for milking
machines. But I'm not sure about that red or orange stuff. There is no
markings or words on it.

Is there any way to determine if any of this is PEX?

I dont really need it at the moment, but I'd like to try to identify
what I have.

For the price I paid, that black poly pipe alone was worth it, and that
3/8 clear stuff is good for tranferring gasoline, and hose for pump
insecticide sprayers, and other odds and ends around the farm. I already
got my money's worth from that clear stuff alone. But I'd still like to
determine what that other stuff is.....


Burning a piece can give you some idea. Polyethylene will smell waxy
but polyvinyl chloride will have an acrid smell due to presence of HCl
PVC is more readily attacked by solvents while PE is not. Put a piece
in acetone and see if it is attacked.

PEX is crosslinked polyethylene and I suppose above advice would not
differentiate between PE and PEX.

Breathe DEEP while doing this Cow****.

--
Tekkie

posted for all of us...



On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:52:34 -0500, Frank "frank wrote:

Burning a piece can give you some idea. Polyethylene will smell waxy
but polyvinyl chloride will have an acrid smell due to presence of HCl
PVC is more readily attacked by solvents while PE is not. Put a piece
in acetone and see if it is attacked.

PEX is crosslinked polyethylene and I suppose above advice would not
differentiate between PE and PEX.

Thanks for the advice. One thing I never understood is the use of the
word "crosslinked". What exactly does that mean?

I'll have to try these suggestions. I do wonder what would happen if
this was PE, (Not PEX) and I was to install some of it as water pipe,
using regular PEX fittings and clamps? When weather allows, I want to
run some water lines in my barn and would like to use what I have. This
will not be left under pressure, since it will just be connected to the
barn hydrant with a piece of garden hose, when needed to fill stock
tanks. Once the tanks are filled, the water hose will be disconnected,
so all water can drain out (to prevent freezing) in cold weather. I
intend to run this so all pipe slopes toward the hydrant, so it drains
out as soon as I disconnect that short piece of hose.

But if it's NOT PEX, then I suppose I'd be better using regular hose
clamps and barbed fittings. That's why I am trying to determine what I
have.

Have you EVER heard of Google or search engines? Obviously you never used
one; including the pimple on your shoulders.

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Tekkie

Oren posted for all of us...



On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:25:58 -0600, wrote:

One thing I never understood is the use of the
word "crosslinked". What exactly does that mean?

The Internet has more information than you can imagine, if you look.

I didn't read down from his post. Do you think this asshat will ever learn?

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Tekkie

Oren posted for all of us...



On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:27:21 -0600, wrote:

Is there any way to determine if any of this is PEX?

Look along the pipe for markings.

Could this be known as what is called a klue?

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Tekkie