swapping imperial for metric radiator valves

kevturner100 · 10 Mar 2009

Anyone any ideas if this is straight forward?

Pipework is ols half inch imperial but valves are jammed shut and need swapping

I have heard of "green rings", is this some conversion olive?

Any help would be appreciated

plummerman · 10 Mar 2009

half inch and 15mm are almost identical your new olives will be slightly tighter to get on tho. This shouldn't pose a problem as long as whoever orginally fitted the valves wasn't over zealous and crimped the pipe due to over tightening. best bet, buy a tub of laco slick tight, push nut and olive on to the pipe and give it a smear all round the olive with this stuff. Its magic

kevturner100 · 10 Mar 2009

plummerman said:
half inch and 15mm are almost identical your new olives will be slightly tighter to get on tho. This shouldn't pose a problem as long as whoever orginally fitted the valves wasn't over zealous and crimped the pipe due to over tightening. best bet, buy a tub of laco slick tight, push nut and olive on to the pipe and give it a smear all round the olive with this stuff. Its magic

Where can I get this stuff from?

plummerman · 10 Mar 2009

most decent plumbers merchants. Plumb Center, PTS. i think pts's version is called tplus 2. its basically a jointing paste that has p.t.f.e in it as well.

kevturner100 · 11 Mar 2009

plummerman said:
most decent plumbers merchants. Plumb Center, PTS. i think pts's version is called tplus 2. its basically a jointing paste that has p.t.f.e in it as well.

Tried everywhere today and can't get the stuff-PTS had never even heard of it and couldn't find it on their system,

any numbers of places to try,

Cheers

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