Sunday, September 12, 2010

A Plumbing Adapter

The faucet for our water filter broke and the new one had different plumbing than the old one. Rather than redo all the connections I made an adapter to go from the faucet (7/16”-24 UNF for a 1/4” compression fitting) to the tubing (3/8” compression fitting)

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A piece of “medical grade” Pomalux Acetal Copolymer.

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Center drilling

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Drilling for the tap.

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Tapping (under hand power…)

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Drilling the rest of the way through 1/4”

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Flipped in the chuck and turned down to 3/8” diameter for the compression fitting.

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Milling a hex so I can get a wrench on it.

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The finished adapter.

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In place under the sink.

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The new faucet on the sink. The picture makes me think I need to tear apart the whole kitchen counter.

Anyway, no need to drive to the hardware store, although I was lucky (or a good hoarder) to have the 7/16”-24 tpi tap on hand. It isn’t common.

2 comments:

  1. Don't tear apart your sink. That'll take time away from machining projects!

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  2. Yeah! it's good that you have those machines with you to make the adapter :-)

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