Adapter to the crane: options for performance and use

What could be the adapter to the crane? In what cases is it needed? How and what to seal threaded connections on adapters? We will try to answer these questions and get acquainted with some exotic types of relevant products.

What it is

An adapter in plumbing is a fitting that:

• Provides the possibility of tight connection of pipelines and valves of various materials. For example, you can replace using fittings - adapters valve on a ball valve with a polypropylene body.
• Performs the transition diameter of the pipeline. A typical example is the connection of an end water supply stand with a thicker filling.
• Allows you to combine elements of the pipeline and valves with different ways of connection (thread and flange, welded coupling and thread).

Note: these functions can be combined, which sometimes gives rise to the most unexpected designs.

Let's explore some of the most curious products.

Acquaintance with exotic

Euro Cup Reset

The Eurocup is a fairly common type of plastic packaging, which instead of being disposed of often lives out in the country in the form of a container for watering. One of the problems of the owner is that the standard discharge is not too adapted for connecting pipes or hoses of small diameter.

Is there any adapter on the eurocub tap?

Of course, and for every taste and color: from a simple nut with a fitting, to a valve with a diameter transition.

One problem: these adapters are not sold in every shop; the order of one copy of the product via the Internet is unprofitable, and the delivery will take a lot of time.

Do not be sad: to solve the problem, it is enough to install a new discharge in an arbitrary place in the Eurocup case.

1. We open the cover of the EuroCube, making a U-shaped incision with a sharp knife. Fold back part of the cover. If necessary, cut one of the bars of the lattice.

1. We take a short hauling with a thread DN 15 or DN 20 (preferably brass) and a pair of locknuts.
2. We select a pair of wide galvanized or brass washers of the appropriate diameter.
3. Cut out from the old car chamber two annular gaskets to fit the washers.
4. We drill a hole in the bottom of the EuroCube and widen it with a sharp knife.
5. We drive a locknut onto the long thread of the sgon. After it we put on a washer and gasket.
6. We put sgon into the hole outside. From the inside, through the cut we made earlier, we put a gasket, washer and locknut on it, and then we tighten the wall.
7. Put the bent cover back in place and seal it with silicone sealant.

Distiller

Simple distillers are often used at home, and, frankly, not at all for the production of distilled water. The adapter to the crane for the moonshine still must supply water to the cooling coil; discharge of heated water is carried out in a simple and straightforward way - into the sewage system.

The simplest adapter is a conventional fitting, which is screwed onto the mixer hanger instead of the filter aerator.

However, we are much more interesting universal adapter to the tap for moonshine, allowing you to connect:

• For external thread M22.
• For internal thread M24.
• To the gander of the domestic old-style mixer without aerator.

The presence of a switch directing the flow of water to the aerator or to the fitting allows the product to be called a diverter. The price of the diverter adapter is from 300 rubles.

Irrigation system

How are garden hoses interconnected and with valves? The simplest adapter for a hose to a crane is an ordinary herringbone. The hose is tensioned onto it and fixed with an aluminum hose clamp with a screw clamp or binding wire.

A more modern solution that allows, if necessary, to quickly disconnect the hose - quick-release fitting.

Installation instructions are extremely simple:

1. The nut is loosened on the fitting.
2. The hose is inserted into its annular groove.
3. The nut is tightened, crimping the hose at the core - fitting.

Washing machine connection

Countless plumbing taps and adapters can be found at any building materials store. Surely among them, the reader has often met rather curious faucets with a pair of threads - external and internal - 1/2 inch in size and one external three-quarter thread.

Where can this device come in handy? As a rule, it is used to connect automatic washing machines in front of a wall-mounted mixer. How to make a connection by hand?

It is useful: if the home plumbing allows - the faucets can be installed immediately after the valves. In the case of steel liner for their installation will have to purchase short shafts.

Sealing compounds

How to seal the threaded pipe connections on the adapters?

• All plastic threads can only be rewound with FUM tape. For metal threads, it is much less suitable: even a small reverse of the thread means flow.
• The metal is perfectly wound with a polymer sealing thread (Tangit Unilok and analogues).
• Finally, a proven method for decades is the winding of compounds with sanitary flax and paint. To get your hands dirty, apply a little paint on the thread itself and wind up a strand of flax; Then brush it on the surface of the winding and tighten the thread.

Conclusion

We hope that our material will be useful to the reader. For more information about what happens and where the adapter to the crane can be used, will offer a video in this article. Successes!