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On 17 Aug 2003 at 16:20, Dave Hall wrote: > > Was a street elbow, or a regular elbow? > > It was one we would use on with solder on the copper water pipe to a tap inside > the house, so it may not be identical to what you in the USA would use. I guess > your street fittings are screw-in and quite thick-walled, like the ones Jim had > on the full-flow oil-filter. We have them for both solder and threaded fittings. "Street" just means that it has male on one end and female on the other. > You need an elbow that has an external diameter similar to the nylon breather T > you are going to connect the hose to at the tank end. The hose would stretch a > bit; our elbows go round 15mm ext diam, so must be about 16mm dia, but there may > be something closer in size to use. 16mm = 5/8" almost exactly. That's why very few metric wrench sets in the US include a 16mm wrench (in addition to the fact that it's an uncommon size.) Other almost perfect metric equivalvents: 19mm = 3/4" 16mm = 5/8" 8mm = 5/16" 4mm = 5/32" 2mm = 5/64" (think of Allen wrenches here) Other than the first one, notice the pattern? There are others which are close, but these are almost perfect. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org