Compression fittings.

[Steelmasons]

Then there is the old fashioned approach of using gloss paint and cotton when winding in long screws & back nuts into a Galvy water tank, sorry Cistern!

I guess you remember the ole Cookes Cutters then Freeflow?..
Yes , cistern being correct.....I guess a pizz take considering a pet hate of mine.

 

[footprints]

My vote goes to Fernox LSX best stuff to use on any joints that will be hard to get to later

 

[dilalio]

I reach for this. With a smear over the back of the olive.

...and I've laid more pipe than the UK did after Christmas dinner

 

[mike42]

and you're just a rude angry little man.

At the point you wrote that he'd said nothing to warrant it whatsoever.

 

[freeflow]

I guess you remember the ole Cookes Cutters then Freeflow?..
Yes , cistern being correct.....I guess a pizz take considering a pet hate of mine.

Oh yes they were a fecker to keep centered The Enox hole cutter was the tool back in the day, powered by a Wolf or Stanley Bridges all metal bodied electric drill.

 

[Terrywookfit]

Oh yes they were a fecker to keep centered The Enox hole cutter was the tool back in the day, powered by a Wolf or Stanley Bridges all metal bodied electric drill.

All we had were adjustable cutters and a Brace !!

 

[freeflow]

All we had were adjustable cutters and a Brace !!

Only some of us had a two handed manual drill and knew how to use it . I had a touch of the Brace & bits the other day but I'm fine now.....

 

[gas112]

A drill you posh feker we had a raw plug tool

 

[Terrywookfit]

A drill you posh feker we had a raw plug tool

Must have made a fookin mess of the cistern!!

 

[gas112]

oops should have read whole replies

 

[Steelmasons]

Ok own up...who used cherry red copper tube to make the holes in plastic cisterns??????

 

[dilalio]

Ok own up...who used cherry red copper tube to make the holes in plastic cisterns??????

 

[dreadnoughtheating]

What he just said.

 

[Terrywookfit]

Ok own up...who used cherry red copper tube to make the holes in plastic cisterns??????

Hundreds of times !!

No power on site. We used Gas Tilleys for Loft work. Council Bungalows on drops....Fookin torture in Summer!!!!

 

[dilalio]

What he just said.

I still do it... love the smell