[TheForge] left-handed pipe thread?

[Larry Brown]

If you have a left hand thread on one end and a right on the other you can 
put a pipe into an existing line with out using a union, think turn buckle
LB

At 01:40 AM 11/23/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>hello;
>
>i really have to ask where left-handed pipe threads are
>used. i was visiting a friend today and he was moaning about
>a fouled up pipe fittings order. most of the fittings have
>left-handed pipe threads. some of the 90 degree elbows have
>one end left-handed and the other end is right handed. nearly
>ever pipe coupling is left-handed at one end and right-handed
>at the other end.
>
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