[TheForge] pipe fitting

Thu Nov 6 15:55:08 2003

This is great, I'm getting about 4-5 great ideas. I'm going to lay them out
and try the bunch and give a full report.  Had an engineering prof. from the
gun club call the other day to say he'd turned it over to a student that was
going to do it on the computer.  He'd started on it as an algebraic
equation!  His point is the change from the 5" ID to the 5.5" OD will fit
different and need to be accounted for.  I mentioned that my torch cutting
skills were going to require a fair bit of customization with the grinder
anyway, ha!

Thanks much to everyone that responded.  I'm looking forward to applying the
ideas.  Kevin

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>  Sent: Thursday, 06 November, 2003 9:32 AM
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>  Heres what I came up w/ for a 30 degree branch on 5" pipe
>  Divide the c ircumfrence ot the pipe into 4 equal parts,
>  numbered like this.
>
>                                      1
>
>                          4                      2
>
>                                       3
>
>  At 1 make a mark 3/4" from the end of the pipe w/ a wraparound
>  connect this point w/ points 4 and 2 on the end of the pipe,draw
>  the cut line along the wraparound.
>  At 3 make a mark 10 3/4" from the end,using a wraparound connect
>  this point w/ points4and 2 on the end and draw the second cut line.
>
>  Here's the process, draw a full size picture of the branch and
>  header, the cut line is from the points where the outside of the
>  pipe meet to the point where the center lines meet.  transfer
>  the measurements from the picture to the pipe and using a
>  wraparound mark the cut lines.
>
>  The book I have is THE PIPE FITTERS AND PIPE WELDERS HANDBOOK by
>  Thomas W. Frankland.
>  Randy Mundt
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