[sdiy] Metal nipples

[Glen]

At 10:47 AM 7/9/04 , Richard Wentk wrote:

>Okay, this is kind of OT. (For a change.)
>
>I have a smoke machine in pieces on my kitchen table at the moment. The 
>copper pipe from the pump is broken at the point where it enters the 
>heating  chamber. Thomann have sent me a new pipe, which is a start, but 
>the old pipe was held in place with a kind of rivet/grommet/nipple which 
>looked like it was either welded to the pipe or possible crimped to it. 
>Without this nipple the pipe falls out as soon as the pump comes on, 
>spraying hazing fluid all over the insides of the machine. Not good...

By any chance, can you take a photo of these parts? I'm not exactly sure
what you're talking about. By the way, nipples (of the pipe variety) are
short pieces of pipe with male threads on each end. Perhaps what you want
is a bulkhead fitting?

Just for the sake of trivia, I once stayed in a motel which was located
next door to a nipple factory in Wheeling, West Virginia. You can probably
imagine the jokes that inspired at the time.  ;)


later,
Glen