[TheForge] forging questions

[CGRAF]

On 5/18/2015 12:54 AM, Mike Spencer wrote:
> Never heard of one them.  Google tells me all but now I wanna know why
> it's called that.  Why'zit called that?
>
> - Mike


 From an anonymous source on yahoo answers:

  Nobody seems to get this right. I was a plumbing contractor for years 
and would often pose this question to blank stares. I marveled that no 
one in the biz could figure it out. Here's the real answer: Such 
fittings are correctly called "st" which, because of the obvious and 
apparent abbreviation stands for "street". But actually, it stands for 
"spigot"...because in old drainage fittings (cast iron and clay) 
fittings were either hub (bell) x hub (bell) which is a regular 
fitting...or hub x spigot (for close work without a nipple in between 
two fittings). "Spigot" was abbreviated "st" which eventually morphed 
into "street" and that my friends...is the real story

  Sounds like a logical morph to me.
Rather like "one off" when we mean "one of a kind"

Mike Graf