[Wet_Boots]

Fame at last

SDR 9 is SDR 9 .... no difference at all buddy boy.

Yes different. Different material. Different fitting geometry. (but then again, I expect California experience with poly pipe to be nil)

 

[Mike Leary]

Pack joints rule.

 

[Wet_Boots]

Maybe these would make a decent compromise - Flo-Lock fittings from Flo-Control

 

[Kiril]

Fame at last Yes different. Different material. Different fitting geometry. (but then again, I expect California experience with poly pipe to be nil)

What part of "standard dimension ratio" do you not understand?

BTW .... PEX is cross-linked polyethylene .... but of course it is not PE per boots classification .... oh noooooooooo. :hammerhead:

 

[Mike Leary]

Am I missing something ? (prolly) I understood PEX took very special tools and fittings, pack joints don't, but I was not aware you could use pack-joints with PEX. Ah, screw it ::::heads for the fridge and opens a Pacifico::::

 

[Kiril]

Am I missing something ? (prolly) I understood PEX took very special tools and fittings, pack joints don't, but I was not aware you could use pack-joints with PEX. Ah, screw it ::::heads for the fridge and opens a Pacifico::::

And why not? If the pack joint will work on SDR9 PE pipe .... it will work on any SDR9 PE pipe.

This is probably what the burger flipper wants ..... http://www.jainpipe.com/Pipefittings/hdpe sureloc.htm

 

[Wet_Boots]

Pack joints work on poly, but insert fittings are intended to visibly expand the black poly pipe, and that is not how PEX works.

 

[Kiril]

Yea .... OK Boots.

 

[Wet_Boots]

Come back after you spend 40 years working on black poly pipe and insert fittings

 

[Kiril]

Come back after you spend 40 years working on black poly pipe and insert fittings

Come back after you learn what SDR means.

 

[Wet_Boots]

SDR tubing is generally designed to work with compression fittings. Barbed fittings for .black poly pipe work by slightly expanding the pipe, before the clamps are tightened. PEX lives in its own little mutant world, as a SDR material that works with both inside and outside diameters being critical to the point of often wanting to match pipe and fittings to each other by brand name.

 

[Mike Leary]

Come back after you learn what SDR means.

"Some dumm reprobate?" :laugh:

 

[Wet_Boots]

If we haven't put everybody to sleep yet :sleeping: I would be curious to know if any old-time poly people noticed any differences in their mainline poly performance, as fittings changed from having a barbed section and a smooth shoulder section, to the present-day norm of all barbs. I figure the old standard was less prone to the pipe pulling out.

 

[Waterit]

Reading this thread is the second-most fun I've had in days.

Maybe we need to call in that "greendude" guy for an opinion...

 

[Mike Leary]

Maybe a REP will chime-in and give us the straight skinny.

 

[Kiril]

SDR tubing is generally designed to work with compression fittings. Barbed fittings for .black poly pipe work by slightly expanding the pipe, before the clamps are tightened. PEX lives in its own little mutant world, as a SDR material that works with both inside and outside diameters being critical to the point of often wanting to match pipe and fittings to each other by brand name.

Yea .... OK Boots.

"Some dumm reprobate?" :laugh:

I think it means ..... boots is an ignorant old coot in a foreign language.

 

[Kiril]

Maybe a REP will chime-in and give us the straight skinny.

No need to. Boots said there wasn't any such thing as an CTS insert fitting ... and I showed him there was ...... the rest is just his usual bullshiit back peddling.

 

[Wet_Boots]

You had zero assistance for the OP, so nothing you posted is relevant or helpful, on this particular topic.

 

[Sprinkus]

Heat fuse it.

 

[Kiril]

You had zero assistance for the OP, so nothing you posted is relevant or helpful, on this particular topic.

Really? Perhaps you missed the link buddy boy.

http://www.jainpipe.com/Pipefittings/hdpe sureloc.htm