water pipes

[Peter-C]

Does anyone know what types of metal pipes can be used to join hoses together. I have plenty of galvanised pipe of the correct size. Is it any good ?

Cheers


Peter

[HandyAndy]

Hi Peter,

Not sure if you mean short connections or long tubes to join the rubber hoses.

For the long extensions I,ve used "Henry Hoover " tubes, perfect fit, stainless & best of all Cheap ( approx £2.50 per 1mtr tube ), plus they look nice too


Got mine off ebay

cheers
andy

[AshG]

make sure you beed the ends i didnt and ginge and i got some pretty nasty burns when the pipe blew off.

[K4KEV]

Originally Posted by AshG

make sure you beed the ends i didnt and ginge and i got some pretty nasty burns when the pipe blew off.

I wondered what those pictures of burns were about...bet you jumped around a bit....correction a LOT

[Peter-C]

Cheers lads,

I've got some Hoover tubing somewhere. I remember the burns Ash - I'll get a flaring.

Peter

[Peter-C]

I've found my pipes and plumbed it all in, using the original hoses. But after proudly showing the wife my handiwork I noticed that I haven't got a connection to the bottom of the expansion tank. On the Sierra it goes to the radiator but my clio rad has only 2 connections not three.

Any ideas ?

Cheers


Peter

[Davidbolam]

Does anyone know where to buy the Henry Hoover tubing to make the coolant pipes?

David

[twinturbo]

Numatic?

TT

[K4KEV]

ebay ...take your pick

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_tr...at=0&_from=R40

[Davidbolam]

Thanks Kev. I should have looked there in the first place. Do you know of an easy and cheap way of beading the ends? Thanks david