aj
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Post by aj on Jun 5, 2021 20:20:49 GMT
anyone know where I can get hold of the kingsley compression forming tool this plumber is showing in this vid
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Post by dickpuller on Jun 6, 2021 5:53:54 GMT
Type B Compression Fittings. Kingsley fittings were commonly used on New Builds in the 70’s!! If I get a chance I’ll have a look in my Treasure Chest, I think I’ve got a couple of 15/22mm ones AJ👍👍
You could try some of the FB P&H Pages, I’m sure there’s plenty old duffers like me with them in their garage👍👍
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Post by crowsfoot on Jun 6, 2021 8:16:13 GMT
I used them at college when I was an apprentice, which is 50 years ago, the college would've been keen because they were reusable fittings. Going from my memory though you had to have special Kingsley fittings to go with the tool and you couldn't use them with any other compression fitting like he's done?
I have come across them in real use,however,not very often.
Another item for the imaginary plumbing museum of "seemingly good ideas at the time".
Supertaps!! These also go back to the same era and for a short while they were very in fashion with "the tap you can re washer without turning the water off" slogan being a major selling point.
They're also now another item confined to a place in the same museum.
NB You could drill an hole in an old portsmouth ballvalve washer and that would become a make shift supertap washer if you hadn't got any.
tappy,
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Post by dickpuller on Jun 6, 2021 10:50:44 GMT
A company called Weir Construction built or supplied Timber Frames or modular steel houses here in Jockoland(perhaps even in North England?). Between 1972-74 alone, they built 4.500 houses!!
Timber Frame houses from the Mid 70s onwards has become the major way of building houses here. Weir played a major part in that method being adopted. They went tits up in 1984.
Weir would supply all the Timber Frame house kit, including the Plumbing Kit. Kingsley Type B compression fittings were supplied in that kit & a 15/22mm Kingsley Tool was included in that kit.
Kingsley Fittings we’re readily available from merchants.
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Post by woodbine66 on Jun 6, 2021 12:05:23 GMT
Can't remember the bloke's name in the video. Nice lad, but mad as a hatter. Been doing plumbing and heating vids for years, in a sort of Frank Spencer style. Not as amusing as BB though.
Anyway, Kingsleys. Must admit it's a new one one me, but beats me why anyone would want to use one. For starters, with pipes fixed in position up agaisnst a wall, you ain't going to be able to spin the handle. Then you have to have special fittings. Sure there's many other disadvantages. What's wrong with a proper copper olive?
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Post by dickpuller on Jun 6, 2021 16:41:40 GMT
Can't remember the bloke's name in the video. Nice lad, but mad as a hatter. Been doing plumbing and heating vids for years, in a sort of Frank Spencer style. Not as amusing as BB though.
Anyway, Kingsleys. Must admit it's a new one one me, but beats me why anyone would want to use one. For starters, with pipes fixed in position up agaisnst a wall, you ain't going to be able to spin the handle. Then you have to have special fittings. Sure there's many other disadvantages. What's wrong with a proper copper olive?
When I started my time in 74, loads of houses had Securex Type B compression fitting on imperial copper pipe. I recall doing a Water Treatment Plant & all the Plumbing H&C was copper & Securex Fittings. Though we used Conex & Yorkshire capillary as standard. |
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