How do I ensure a plumbing fitting brass 'T' ends up in the correct
orientation when fully tightened ?

Paul Mc Cann

"fred" wrote in message
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How do I ensure a plumbing fitting brass 'T' ends up in the correct
orientation when fully tightened ?


I can visualise several ways.
1) Insert all three connections at once and tighten.
2) Temporarily fit a short length of pipe in one of the cross bar sockets
and use it as a handle to secure the body of the T while tightening.
3) Insert a piece of dowel right through the cross bar of the T and again
use it as a handle.
4) Last, but least best, grip the top end in a mole wrench or similar
although this method is more likely to cause distortion.
--
Tinkerer

On 02/06/2011 14:19, fred wrote:
How do I ensure a plumbing fitting brass 'T' ends up in the correct
orientation when fully tightened ?

Paul Mc Cann

Are you talking about a compression fitting, or an internally threaded
fitting, requiring the ends of the pipes to be threaded?
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Cheers,
Roger
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On 2 June, 20:50, Roger Mills wrote:
On 02/06/2011 14:19, fred wrote:

How do I ensure a plumbing fitting brass 'T' ends up in the correct
orientation when fully tightened ?

Paul Mc Cann

Are you talking about a compression fitting, or an internally threaded
fitting, requiring the ends of the pipes to be threaded?
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Cheers,
Roger
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HI,

Thanks for your help.

I'm talking compression fittings. The horizontal bar of the Tee is
vertical with the leg coming out horizontally. I want the leg to point
in a particular direction but when I tighten it up it ends about 45
degrees out.

"fred" wrote in message
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On 2 June, 20:50, Roger Mills wrote:
On 02/06/2011 14:19, fred wrote:

How do I ensure a plumbing fitting brass 'T' ends up in the correct
orientation when fully tightened ?

Paul Mc Cann

Are you talking about a compression fitting, or an internally threaded
fitting, requiring the ends of the pipes to be threaded?
--
Cheers,
Roger
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HI,

Thanks for your help.

I'm talking compression fittings. The horizontal bar of the Tee is
vertical with the leg coming out horizontally. I want the leg to point
in a particular direction but when I tighten it up it ends about 45
degrees out.



If the fittings are clean and new then you shouldn't be tightening them so
much that things move like that. Are you being heavy handed?

On 03/06/2011 13:24, fred wrote:
On 2 June, 20:50, Roger wrote:
On 02/06/2011 14:19, fred wrote:

How do I ensure a plumbing fitting brass 'T' ends up in the correct
orientation when fully tightened ?

Paul Mc Cann

Are you talking about a compression fitting, or an internally threaded
fitting, requiring the ends of the pipes to be threaded?
--
Cheers,
Roger
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HI,

Thanks for your help.

I'm talking compression fittings. The horizontal bar of the Tee is
vertical with the leg coming out horizontally. I want the leg to point
in a particular direction but when I tighten it up it ends about 45
degrees out.


In that case, you fit the branch pipe first, and hold that so it points
in the right direction while you do up the 'straight through'
compression nuts.
--
Cheers,
Roger
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On 3 June, 15:42, Roger Mills wrote:
On 03/06/2011 13:24, fred wrote:









On 2 June, 20:50, Roger *wrote:
On 02/06/2011 14:19, fred wrote:

How do I ensure a plumbing fitting brass 'T' ends up in the correct
orientation when fully tightened ?

Paul Mc Cann

Are you talking about a compression fitting, or an internally threaded
fitting, requiring the ends of the pipes to be threaded?
--
Cheers,
Roger
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HI,

Thanks for your help.

I'm talking compression fittings. The horizontal bar of the Tee is
vertical with the leg coming out horizontally. I want the leg to point
in a particular direction but when I tighten it up it ends about 45
degrees out.

In that case, you fit the branch pipe first, and hold that so it points
in the right direction while you do up the 'straight through'
compression nuts.
--
Cheers,
Roger
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Roger,

many thanks for your help. Unfortunately the Tee is mounted in the
body of a water pump. One leg in the pump housing, the opposite leg in
the accumulator tank, and the third, troublesome, leg is to the
outlets circuit. I was trying to align the pressurised outlet pipe
with the incoming water supply pipe for neatness and convenience of
siting the pump.

Gave up in the finish !

Paul Mc Cann

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

I'm talking compression fittings. The horizontal bar of the Tee is
vertical with the leg coming out horizontally. I want the leg to point
in a particular direction but when I tighten it up it ends about 45
degrees out.

You can often compensate for the movement to its finished position by
starting the tightening process advanced at 45deg.

"fred" wrote in message
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How do I ensure a plumbing fitting brass 'T' ends up in the correct
orientation when fully tightened ?

This is an internal taper threaded T?
1 more turn or 1 less turn of ptfe tape?

"brass monkey" wrote in message
b.com...

"fred" wrote in message
...
How do I ensure a plumbing fitting brass 'T' ends up in the correct
orientation when fully tightened ?

This is an internal taper threaded T?
1 more turn or 1 less turn of ptfe tape?

I know exactly what you are on about, I had that problem with the Ts on the
bottom of towel rails that incorporate electric heating elements. It took me
several attempts to get the damn things tight whilst pointing in the right
direction. Can't help I am afraid, I just did it by trial and error.

Mike

On 03/06/2011 14:10, MuddyMike wrote:
"brass wrote in message
b.com...

wrote in message
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How do I ensure a plumbing fitting brass 'T' ends up in the correct
orientation when fully tightened ?

This is an internal taper threaded T?
1 more turn or 1 less turn of ptfe tape?

I know exactly what you are on about, I had that problem with the Ts on the
bottom of towel rails that incorporate electric heating elements. It took me
several attempts to get the damn things tight whilst pointing in the right
direction. Can't help I am afraid, I just did it by trial and error.

Persistence & determination are omnipotent.



--
Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk