When I made a trip to the local Lowe's, I looked into their heating aisle and found galvanized fittings like this:
http://www.made-in-china.com/image/2f0j ... -Elbow.jpg
What I saw on the box that contained them was "Do not use for pressures higher than 150psi" Do any of you know how high of a pressure one can take these fittings to? I will be using these fittings for my semi-auto airsoft gun:
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/prechar ... 15081.html
Will these fittings withstand 400psi?
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Strength of Galvanized Fittings?
Probably.Will these fittings withstand 400psi?
I've used them to 500psi constant pressure and over 1200psi for a short time in 2" size. I've taken a 1/4" one to 2000psi with unregged nitrogen pressurising the water filled pipe and fitting with no failure.
This doesn't mean that you can do the same successfully, but they have a very high safety factor incorporated because of the (obviously) shoddy methods used in their construction.
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not all galvanized fittings are of poor quality.. what you have in shops in US are chinese made products becasue they are cheaper
you know that you can buy steel fittings for high pressure applications ? AFAIK Mcmaster has them
you know that you can buy steel fittings for high pressure applications ? AFAIK Mcmaster has them
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