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Compression Joints for Vitrified Clay Pipe and Fittings" are outlined in ASTM C425.
Shut-off water supply: If a
compression joint is destroyed, it will need to be replaced.
You can use copper supply pipes, connected with soldered or
compression joints, or plastic pipes that are usually connected with push-fitjoints.
If you are planning plumbing jobs buy two adjustable spanners, especially if you are using
compression joints. The head should be 200mm to ensure the spanner is large enough for most plumbing jobs.
There's more to the usual chatter about ubends, copper pipe and
compression joints when Gary Moran dishes out instructions to Liam O'Neill in their plumbing offices.
Rather than flicking through the tabloids, switching on his iPod or joining the back-of-the-coach card school, the midfielder is engrossed in capillary joints, leaking glands and
compression joints.
Nor do
compression joints and flare joints, which rely on mated soft metals molding tightly to one another.
A number of firms - Harris Biological Supplies,
Compression Joints, Philip Harris and Concargo among others - took the bait and went west.