Blanking of unused gas spur?

[Tonka]

I bought a narrowboat once that had a rubber gas hose blocked up with the silver foil paper you use to find in cigarette packets. The owner used to temporarily fit a gas fridge only when they went on holiday because gas was dangerous. That is what he told me.

[captain birdseye]

On 19/09/2022 at 23:10, blackrose said:

Ok yes point taken. Thanks. I'll replace the unequal T with a straight reducer.

This is exactly what I did when I removed my three-way fridge a good few years ago. Never had a problem with any BSS examiner I've used. 

[LadyG]

On 20/09/2022 at 09:27, Tonka said:

I bought a narrowboat once that had a rubber gas hose blocked up with the silver foil paper you use to find in cigarette packets. The owner used to temporarily fit a gas fridge only when they went on holiday because gas was dangerous. That is what he told me.

Probably the same guy who tied up his boat to Armco with a spare bit of gas piping to save wearing out his mooring ropes. Sorted that for him after retrieving the boat.

[blackrose]

Just reviving this thread as I'm ordering a straight reduced coupling.

 

I know the big pipe on the left is 1/2" as I remember fitting it and I've just measured it, but I can't remember what the reduced pipe size on the right is and it's quite difficult to get my verniers in the corner to measure it. Does anyone have any idea from looking at it what it might be? 3/8" perhaps?

 

The curved pipe at the bottom looks like the same diameter as the one on the right and it measures 0.369" so I suppose that's 3/8".

 

Edited October 27, 2022 by blackrose

[GUMPY]

If you have used the correct stuff it will be 3/8

[blackrose]

Thanks. It was all the correct soft copper Imperial pipe when I fitted it about 15 years ago. I just forget what I've done. I often find stuff I've fitted on the boat that I'd forgotten all about.