Non-UK Stainless Steel Pressurised Cylinders

[bart]

  I am about to have delivered and install a non uk tank in my home in Spain and want to take out with me the various compression fittings etc (they are cheaper from Screwfix)  Can anyone tell me the size of the tank conectors I need please? 

Bart

[Flamethrower_]

Hi Bart,

Questions for you is it actuallly a stainless steel cylinder? Because most cylinders are glass lined mild steel vessels abroad

Are you talking about a integral tube and roof assembly or is it a separate cylinder?

as most of the non uk cylinders I have fitted abroad  have varying sized connectors anything from 1/2 inch Female iron to 1 inch F I to 1 1/2 F I

The next thing you have to realise is that in the u.k. we use 15mm copper pipe so if you are buying fittings from screw fix they will be incompatible with the pipe sizes over there.

Because they use anything from 6mm in 2mm increments up wards ie 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 22, 28 no 15mm!

I hope that may be of some assistance for you

Rob

[paul]

I installed my navitron system in Spain. I found 15mm and 22mm copper tube and end feed fittings here with no problem .  Fittings are certainly cheeper in screwfix, and I couldn't find any compression fittings here in Spain at all - the fontanerias (plumbers merchents) had never seen an olive before (of the plumbing type, that is).  The Spanish equivalent of compression fittings that were shown to me had rubber seals in them which I was reluctant to use (so didn't).

Paul

[Flamethrower_]

Hi Paul,

I am intrigued that you found 15mm pipe are you sure it wasn't 14mm ?
They are very close and the fittings you mention I also Know will fit on to uk 15mm pipe, but as you say I have yet to find fittings like ours with olives, what i would say that if you get 15mm fittings from screwfix make sure that they have copper olives as these will compress up on to 14mm pipe where as brass olives won't

Best of luck

Rob

[bart]

Thanks for all of the advice.  The cylinder i intend to install is the navitron non uk staninless steel cylinder.  See just before the wind turbines section of their price list  http://www.navitron.org.uk/pricelist.htm

Does anyone know the thread sizes for pipe connections?

Bart

[paul]

Rob

Definitely 15mm.  I brought out end feed fittings with me (a tub full of various old fittings plus a few bags of screwfix jobbies) but bought the copper pipe here.  The end feed fittings were a nice tight fit, as were compression isolating valves.  I've just been out to check that I wasn't halucinating, the pipes are 15mm on the dot by my micrometer.  I used the 15mm for new hot and cold plumbing to kitchen, bathroom and utility.  My primary circuit is 22mm as it's a 90 tube system for dhw plus pool and I was concerned about having so much heat to shift.

I've seen the various even no. sizes of pipe here, I've used 18mm in the past on various bits and pieces.  I agree that the Spanish are definitely lovers of iron pipe with fittings of 1/2" 3/4" 1" and so on readily available (in iron or brass).  I've also noticed how much they rely on flexi couplings for coupling up everything from taps to gas water heaters, I'm not in favour of these (though I'm not a plumber), they look too restrictive (internal diameters always far less than that of the pipework they connect to, and not being compression, you still have to solder 1/2" or 3/4" brass fittings to connect to.

As far as availability of 15mm copper is concerned, Spain is a big country, ways of doing things seem to vary from provence to provence, maybe I'm lucky to have the 15mm available.

Bart,
Sorry I don't know, my cylinder is a copper thermal store, I specified 22mm connections on everything when I ordered it.

Paul

[Darren8512]

Hi not sure if this helps,  if you have any of these next to you may be worth a look!  Ardys,  Brico House,  AKI.

I know Ardys should have pipe/fittings etc (15mm) thats where I go in Torrevieja.(Its like BQ etc)

Darren