[TheForge] OT -- 59 mm Acme thread fittings?

[terry l. ridder]

hello bruce;

the large bulk tanks used on farms to haul water and liquid fertilzers.
use the same connector. you should be able to go to any farm store and
find the correct connector.

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Bruce Freeman wrote:

> That was a confusion I had too, for a while.  AFAIK, nobody uses the
> Acme in this country -- I can't find them if they do.  But Acme and
> buttress threads are very different.  If I had a critical application,
> I'd just buy the fitting from Oz, but the price is so high that I'd
> rather wait.  I can actually screw a 2" FPT fitting on over the Acme
> threads for what I'm doing, but the seal is far from perfect.


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terry l. ridder ><>