TM>> be handling them. My question concerns the adapter. The 1/4" male
TM>> thread is
TM>> british thread, right?  I know they have both straight, and taper, and
TM>> I
TM>> want to be sure berfore I set up the fill adapter This one looks
TM>> straight.....  Thanks.  Mike
TM>It is made in Texas but that's no guarantee that it won't be a british
TM>thread. I don't know.
TM>I haven't got the adapter to look at. I thought they were tapered. You
TM>should be able to screw them into any basic yoke as most use 1/4 pipe.
TM>I'm going to make an adapter that you can hook it up to the -4 on the
TM>end of a Career hose. Then another that will hook to the end of that
TM>funky british thread that they always have on the hoses.
 Tim, I'm in the fluid power industry (as a distributer tech
 support person), and it is amazing the number of "standards" that
 exist now and which are recently approved as a "world-class" zero
 leak connection.
 In general (all general statements are false), the parallel thread
 fittings have an o-ring (read this as "soft") seal of some type.
 Further, the BSPP (British Standard Pipe Parallel) is the standard
 product in the non-US dimensioned locales.  The US equivalent to
 BSPP is the SAE fitting ... straight, with an o-ring seal.
 Both US pipe, British pipe, and SAE (plus others) use the "dash
 number" to represent sizes; typically, it is the number of 1/16"
 in the nominal pipe size or steel tube OD, or hose ID used with
 the fitting. For example, with most manufacturers, a 2-4 SOMETHING
 adapter will adapt from something size 2 (like 1/8 pipe) to
 something size 4 (like a fitting designed for 1/4OD steel tube
 or 1/4 ID hose.
 There are new standards approved (ISO-xxxx) that MAY change some
 of this ... the adoption by customers is TOTALLY lagging in the
 US.
 As to this being on topic ... with high pressure compressible
 fluids, ruptures are dangerous; we all need to be careful what we
 use as we adapt with the PCP products.
George
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