"Bill" wrote in message
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My son has a tap in his garden that feeds a vertical fairly thick
walled
rubbery plastic pipe to a right angle connector. From there water
was
fed via buried rubbery pipe to 3 taps located at various quite long
distances around the garden.

Last Winter in the frost, the rubber pipe to connector started
leaking
and produced a huge ice sculpture.

As a temporary bodge, I stuck a bar from a socket set in the end of
the
tube and held it there with a clip. It looked as though the inside
of
the connector was smooth and the rubbery pipe had been glued into
place.
There was no sign of anything looking like an olive.

I took some measurements and visited a couple of usually good
merchants
looking to buy some sort of connection arrangement, but only got
talk
like "that's imperial, haven't seen anything like that for years".
They
also said that any glue they sold would be useless because it would
either not work or dissolve the plastic.

I've put some pics that might be visible at

https://picasaweb.google.com/billaboard/PipeJoint

Any simple low-cost suggestions? I know I should have measured the
pipe
again before writing this, but forgot. It's about an inch od.

--
Bill

OK so it looks like a 3/4" imperial compression elbow. You need a
short stub of 3/4" copper pipe sweated to a suitable pipe barb to suit
the inner diameter of the rubbery hose, and a 3/4" imperial olive. (No
size references in the photo so it may be 1/2" imperial in which case
15mm olives can be pressed in to service.)

Imperial olives are available but need searching for. Beware that the
measurement here is the pipe bore not the outside. There are 3/4"
copper olives widely available used by air conditioning outfits, but
their pipe is measured on the outside!!!!

AWEM

"Andrew Mawson" wrote in message
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"Bill" wrote in message
...

My son has a tap in his garden that feeds a vertical fairly thick
walled
rubbery plastic pipe to a right angle connector. From there water
was
fed via buried rubbery pipe to 3 taps located at various quite
long
distances around the garden.

Last Winter in the frost, the rubber pipe to connector started
leaking
and produced a huge ice sculpture.

As a temporary bodge, I stuck a bar from a socket set in the end
of
the
tube and held it there with a clip. It looked as though the inside
of
the connector was smooth and the rubbery pipe had been glued into
place.
There was no sign of anything looking like an olive.

I took some measurements and visited a couple of usually good
merchants
looking to buy some sort of connection arrangement, but only got
talk
like "that's imperial, haven't seen anything like that for years".
They
also said that any glue they sold would be useless because it
would
either not work or dissolve the plastic.

I've put some pics that might be visible at

https://picasaweb.google.com/billaboard/PipeJoint

Any simple low-cost suggestions? I know I should have measured the
pipe
again before writing this, but forgot. It's about an inch od.

--
Bill

OK so it looks like a 3/4" imperial compression elbow. You need a
short stub of 3/4" copper pipe sweated to a suitable pipe barb to
suit
the inner diameter of the rubbery hose, and a 3/4" imperial olive.
(No
size references in the photo so it may be 1/2" imperial in which
case
15mm olives can be pressed in to service.)

Imperial olives are available but need searching for. Beware that
the
measurement here is the pipe bore not the outside. There are 3/4"
copper olives widely available used by air conditioning outfits, but
their pipe is measured on the outside!!!!

AWEM


OR: you could carefully remove the 3/4" elbow, sweat a hose barb into
the free end, and re-assemble it where it was.

AWEM