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Where to buy 1 to 1 1/8 inch copper pipe fittings?
copper pipe from home depot not easily going into fittings
plumbing - Is all copper pipe pretty much the same? - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
3/4" Copper Pipe $1 ft or $4 ft at Home Depot WT??
Hi all!
I'm trying to research the parts necessary to replace my main water supply line with 1" soft copper tubing (1 1/8" OD). I'm trying to figure out how the copper connects to other pipes and I am having 0 luck finding fittings online for 1"+. I read flare fittings are great (to connect the copper to the main at the street) but the largest I can find is 7/8 OD. Can't find the correct size compression fittings either.
Where do y'all buy your parts at for these 1"+ pipes?
I bought a 1/2 inch end cap fitting from home depot today and a 10 ft 1/2 inch copper pipe. when I got home and tried to insert the pipe into the fitting it wouldn't go in at all. after struggling with it for a little while, reaming the inside and the outside of the pipe for 20ish minutes and making sure the pipe was as round as possible I was able to get it to go into the fitting, but it was still really tight. I tested the end cap on some old 1/2 inch copper that I had lying around and there were no issues at all.
I went to a different home depot and tested out the endcap and a few other fittings on other pipes they had, they were impossible to press on with both 1/2 inch and 3/4 inch pipes. Am I doing something wrong here? I can't imagine plumbers are sitting there for 20 minutes for each fitting. Or are home depot's pipes just bad? the brand was mueller industries, streamline. it looks like that is what lowes and ferguson carry too.
Outer dimension of the pipes from my non digital calipers looked to be a couple hairs over 5/8 inch
There are different grades and types of copper pipe that you of course should be aware of. However I think your question is whether copper pipe is really a commodity type product - whether there's a difference between products of the same grade / type made by various manufacturers and sold by various retailers and wholesalers.
This is a common question but it's a tough one.
One the one hand, there are standards that apply to these products and any product that meets the standard should be adequate for the purpose. That may lead you to conclude that standardization makes these products essentially commodities.
On the other hand, big retailers press manufacturers very very hard for low pricing, and are not nearly as tough on quality; DIY customers are not as demanding as the plumbing contractors, maintenance people, etc. that shop at plumbing supply houses catering to contractors. Big box retailers are going to cater to their customers and their customers are primarily concerned with price.
It's very possible that in some cases the same product from the same manufacturer is identical quality whether purchased in a big box store or in a specialty supply house. It's also very possible that a brand may have to lower their quality (within acceptable standards) to win a spot in a big box store. It's even possible that a manufacturer may make the same exact product to a higher standard for supply houses and to a lower standard for big box retailers.
In my opinion, I have seen all three of these scenarios unfold over the last ten years as big box stores have grown and become more powerful in the market.
There is copper tubing and there is copper water tube as defined in ASTM B-88. Tubing is usually soft and comes in coils. Water tubing is usually cold drawn and comes in straight lengths. K, L, and M are different wall thicknesses of water tubing ; an example for size 3/4 " is- K = 0.065", L= 0.045", and M = 0.032". All 3/4 copper water tube has a 0.875 " outer diameter. ( My ASTM B 88 is old but they don't change these dimensions.) . However K is often annealed so also comes in coils. Tubing and water tubing are the same composition , more or less pure copper. So ASTM B 88 water tubing is the moral equivalent of pipe but with a different name.