Gate Valve on domestic central heating tank

winston1 · 10 May 2021

JimCrow said:
( the flag is irish ).

And Ireland I believe still uses imperial copper tube.

fixitflav · 11 May 2021

JimCrow said:
He has an old 3/8"OD 'compression' gate valve, quite common on old oil lines,
the 3/8" pipe with that olive will work in the 10mm union
( the flag is irish ).

OK, thanks for the education. Only thing is he wants to use 10mm pipe, not 3/8" so needs 10mm olives.

Apologies to Jimmy about the flag, never noticed before how similar Ireland's and Italy's are!

JimCrow · 11 May 2021

fixitflav said:
OK, thanks for the education. Only thing is he wants to use 10mm pipe, not 3/8" so needs 10mm olives.

Apologies to Jimmy about the flag, never noticed before how similar Ireland's and Italy's are!

bluefunnelline said:
OK lads, I plead guilty - the 100mm entry should ofr course be 10mm .

I'm having trouble sourcing 3/8 inch pipe - will a 10mm pipe fit into a 3/8 inch gate valve? If not will I need some converter to mate a 10mm pipt to a short piece of 3/8 inch pipe?

Sorry for the confusion1

Jinny

fixitflav · 12 May 2021

Jimmy on original post, so not sure whether boy or girl!

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