Packaging

[PD]

Just taken delivery from The Malt Miller of a half inch hose tail as I'm replacing the tap on my cheapy boiler.
Its very nice but the packaging was a little over the top I think. Its a solid stainless steel fitting hardly likely to get damaged in the first class post. So why wrap it in 5 feet x 6 inch of bubble wrap sealed with thick parcel tape ! Took me ages to unwrap it!
Must have worked, it was undamaged !

 

[Wendy1971]

i love bubble wrap i like to sit and pop it great stuff that is

 

[Baldbrewer]

An apprentice at work asked me what he should do with a 6 foot roll of bubble wrap, I said "just pop it in the corner"

He came back 6 hours later , "can I stop now my fingers are bleeding!"

 

[PD]

Doh !

Doh !

My tap and the hose barb don't connect ...... Doh ! Doh !

 

[Baldbrewer]

can you show us a photo? :hmm:

 

[PD]

give me a minute...

 

[Wendy1971]

:lol: :lol: @bald brewer

 

[PD]

 

[Baldbrewer]

What you need is a 1/2" stainless barrel and some ptfe tape.
Hang on I'll have a look ;-)

 

[PD]

got the tape......

 

[Baldbrewer]

Best I've got in toolbox is a brass hex barrel in 1/2"
Won't look sparkly like your stainless!

 

[PD]

are they easily available from B&Q ? If so I can get one, what do I ask for

 

[Baldbrewer]

Better off with proper pipe fitting supplies
DIY places will be useless .
Try bes on tinternet
You want 1/2 bsp barrel it's female fitting as you screw into it where as your hosetail
Is male as you screw it on ;-)

304 or 316L stainless steel .

Won't be cheap though :-(

 

[Baldbrewer]

Hang on ! That's a 15 mm compression on the isolating valve ?

Is this for a mash tub or boiler ?
You can buy hose tails female that will fit on that!
May be lucky with a wickes ? Take it with you though .
Sorry for confusion I didn't look at photo properly ;-)

 

[Baldbrewer]

See your hose tail is 1/2" bsp thread what size is the barb for?
1/4" or 3/8" pipe?

 

[Baldbrewer]

try this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-2-BSP-x...=130444214561&ps=63&clkid=2181089225247816010

 

[PD]

sorry I lost a post somewhere !

Its all to replace the present tap on my tea urn type boiler. I want to end up the a half inch bazooka screen ( waiting its arrival ) fitting onto a half inch s/s bulk head fitting (from Vossey eventually.) Through the boiler wall with this tap and hose barb on the outside I think I've gone about it wrong way as I will need some connectors to fit baz screen to bulk head, bulk head to tap, and tap to bayonet. There must have been an easier way....

 

[PD]

Sorted ! I think.... I've got the wrong tap....

this would be better....

http://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/index.ph ... ductId=194

 

[Baldbrewer]

Nice!that what I call at tap lol!

Posting tomorrow Brian

 

[PD]

thank you again, Ill get the false bottom wrapped with a bit of tubing to lift it a bit off the mash tun bottom too.