Just out of curiosity...

[CortinaV8]

..reading another post got me wondering.

When I moved into my house I had the boiler and most of the gas pipework/plumbing changed almost immediately. Under the stairs was the old lead pipework from the meter to various appliances, but there was also a stub that went to a 90 degree valve with a bit of rubber hose attached to it.

Any ideas what something like that would have been used for?

 

[45yearsagasman]

Post a pic if poss.

 

[CortinaV8]

It's long gone now.

The valve was kind of like the type you would find in a school chemistry room for bunsen burners.

 

[TicklyT]

Supply for a gas poker (a hollow fire poker with a gas burner in the middle, supplied with gas through a rubber tube), used for lighting coal fires?

 

[CortinaV8]

Maybe, but in the cupboard under the stairs, 15 meters away from the nearest fire?

 

[kevplumb]

possibly old wash boiler supply

 

[Nige F]

Wasn`t 10 Rillington Place , was it

 

[mysteryman]

These used to be quite common, for a portable boiler or fire.

Which Cortina, and which V8? Daimler, I hope.

 

[crashndie]

sounds like a old water draw off wen it was on coal gas ????

 

[CortinaV8]

Interesting, cheers, probably was for some form of appliance as it stil had a bit of degrading rubber hose on the end of it, as I say though, worried me and my gas installer greatly hence it was removed along with all the other lead.

Mysteryman - It's a 1972 2 Door GT with a Small Block Ford V8 (5.0l)