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Hmmmm. Thanks for the heads up, Doug. I'd better go and sniff behind my wife's new gas clothes dryer.Speaking of known quality sources.......anybody purchased galvanized pipe fittings from a big box store lately?
It seems most if not all are from China these days. Even a professorial plumbing supply had Chinese fittings.
I learned about Chinese pipe fittings a couple years ago working on the rentals, it's near impossible to make a water tight connection with them. Unable to seal the joint with teflon tape and pipe sealant I gave up and ran a die over the male fittings and a tap into the female threads, problem solved.
I did notice the threads on China-sourced brass fittings do seal as they should.
That's a tough one. ...<snip>...
I've made a lot of pipe threads in those sizes over the years and never used a reamer before the tap. Since none were ever rejected by customers (some of them ISO-certified), I assume they were standards-compliant threads.
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