Thread adapter (different pitchs)

[Tidy Max]

Alreet chaps.

Does anybody know of a thread adapter that will connect gas/water fittings to electrical ones.

I.e. 15mm compression end to a 20mm lamp holder?

 

[PEG]

Get yourself a Eurofluids or Harrier catalogue,and research the adapters available,they are all in there,and if not,your in specials territory.

Alternatively,learn to solder correctly,then silver-solder your own.

It is a fading art,which has excellent mechanical and aesthetic appeal,if it's good enough for a £120,000 shotgun,it's good enough for a comedy desk lamp...:icon12:

 

[Geordie Spark]

Get yourself a Eurofluids or Harrier catalogue,and research the adapters available,they are all in there,and if not,your in specials territory.

Alternatively,learn to solder correctly,then silver-solder your own.

It is a fading art,which has excellent mechanical and aesthetic appeal,if it's good enough for a £120,000 shotgun,it's good enough for a comedy desk lamp...:icon12:

This is what I used to Braze, Silver Solder then caulk with soft solder. It's a boiler for a model steam locomotive. This one isn't mine but it's very similar.

 

[Tidy Max]

Very smart I have been building various light fittings. I have done one from copper compression fittings and one from galv conduit (the galv conduit one is CRAP) looks more like a zimmer frame.

I will watch some videos on brazing. It isn't something i have ever needed to do. Worth having another skill though!

 

[ian.settle1]

Do you have a photo of this light you are making?

 

[Marvo]

There's a couple of options if you're building table lamps. One skill which needs a bit of practice but I found particularly useful is being able to solder from the inside of a joint. You meticulously clean and flux the joint and pre-assemble it then you thread the solder wire inside the fitting to the joint and heat the joint gently until the solder starts to melt. It naturally runs from the inside of the joint between the capillary surfaces of the joint if you move the heat correctly. It's a very neat joint because there's no external marks where the solder was applied. The crucial thing as well is the fluxing of the joint, the solder naturally follows the areas that have been fluxed so if your fluxing is not accurate there will be solder in places where it's not wanted when the joint is finished.

 

[Tidy Max]

Do you have a photo of this light you are making?

Why yes Ian, i do.

Do i want to open the flood gates to abuse? Why no Ian, i do not.

 

[Tidy Max]

To be honest the thing that put me off using soldered connections (especially for the design i have done). Is that it wouldn't look as good. Each elbow or tee looks good because it is bulky and has the compression nut which (i think) adds to the industrial style of it.

I intend on building some copper wall lights on wooden mounts which i may use soldered ends for as i can imagine the smooth finish being a lot nicer!

I purchased a few things off fleabay last night to finish the lights (thanks to Mykey for the obvious heads up!). I bought a few 1/2bsp bayonet holders and some 3core braided flex. I am still looking for the cheapest place to get them from. I have a lampfix catalogue at home but i get the stuff through CEF which i am sure will not be my cheapest option!

 

[PEG]

This is what I used to Braze, Silver Solder then caulk with soft solder. It's a boiler for a model steam locomotive. This one isn't mine but it's very similar.

...Lovely,proper engineering,with not a silicone gun in sight...

There is a long established model steam society near where i live,based in a park,which has had a working track around it,all of my life (Chassen Park)

From time to time,i call upon the skills of some members,when precision drilling,milling or other micro-tasks,are required.

The other week,one such gentleman,of late 70's vintage,was machining a top lever for me,off an old Browning O/U,and we got talking about engineering etc....

I like to keep at least a toe in the 21st century,so i steered the conversation to the topic of 3-D printers,and the wonder of that technology.......I would have got the same silent stare,if i had told him i put a bodice on at weekends,and people called me Gloria....

A priceless character,never the less :icon12:

 

[Silly Sausage]

There is a long established model steam society near where i live,based in a park,which has had a working track around it,all of my life (Chassen Park)

Well, I never knew that was there!
Going to have to check that out next time I go down The Railway

 

[Geordie Spark]

Very smart I have been building various light fittings. I have done one from copper compression fittings and one from galv conduit (the galv conduit one is CRAP) looks more like a zimmer frame.

I will watch some videos on brazing. It isn't something i have ever needed to do. Worth having another skill though!

Good lad!

You can never have too many skills.

Brazing is like gas welding but using a brass "welding" rod.

 

[Tidy Max]

Just picked up a length of black malleable iron pipe....... but its red?! Looks like i am going to have to get the next fitting powder coated!

 

[Geordie Spark]

Just picked up a length of black malleable iron pipe....... but its red?! Looks like i am going to have to get the next fitting powder coated!

The word "black" when used to describe this material has little to do with the colour of it!

(as you have just found out! )

If you want to know where the "black" comes into it then Google is your friend.

 

[Tidy Max]

ffs, i chopped it in half in the back of the plumbers merchants (6.1m length and it needed to go on the berlingo roof) chucked it over my shoulder and carried it out and as i got into the sunlight i realised!

I wasn't going back into the lions den and making a numpty out of myself i'd rather front the £22 than look like an idiot! Why aren't the elbows and tees red as well?! how irritating! All of the adapters are the exact colour i wanted the lamp to be!

 

[HandySparks]

The word "black" when used to describe this material has little to do with the colour of it!

(as you have just found out! )

If you want to know where the "black" comes into it then Google is your friend.

Black pipe in red oxide finish:
Pipe - Black Malleable

 

[Tidy Max]

Ive snapped the flaming threading tool :'( i only managed 4 threads, one whole twist half a twist back just like i do galv, i used threading compound too, and the thing just snapped!

Well annoyed!