Tapping sleeve & tapping tee
Tapping sleeve & tapping tee
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This may sound asinine but on a set of utility construction & relocation plans I've come across the terms tapping sleeve and tapping tee used interchangably. Is it just a terminology difference or is there some real difference?





RE: Tapping sleeve & tapping tee
RE: Tapping sleeve & tapping tee
RE: Tapping sleeve & tapping tee
Tapping Sleeve: a Flexible steel (stainless or epoxy coated carbon) assembly that is bolted around the pipe, similar in shape to a repair sleeve but a tapping boss is added, with a single or double row of bolts to tighten the sleeve on the pipe. Sealing is by a gasket ring around the proposed hole and/or a rubber layer under the sleeve wrapping the pipe. Again once installed the pipe can be drilled using a wet tap machine.
Tee's require the pipe to be round to obtain a seal, sleeves are more forgiving
I have found the names are used interchangeably
Hydrae
RE: Tapping sleeve & tapping tee
While there is certainly nothing wrong with varying local vernacular or descriptions as long as they are otherwise further properly defined in specifications etc., for many decades multiple very large vendors at least in the USA have been formally referring to the ductile iron casting sort of devices (you describe as a "tapping tee") instead as "tapping sleeves". e.g. see current web offerings at http://www.acipco.com/afc/sleeves/features.cfm, htt
RE: Tapping sleeve & tapping tee