Subject: Re: Pipe thread standards?

From: [email-masked]
Date: 14 Dec 1996 09:08:03 -0500

>I have a vacuum cup with a 1/8" dia. nipple coming out of it.
>Unfortunately, the nipple is not threaded NPT, and I can't figure out what
>it is.  It's close to 1/8" NPT, but not quite.  Could it be NPS?  Or is

>Thanks in advance.
>
>--
>ted phares
> human engineering laboratory
>  department of mechanical engineering
>   university of california at berkeley
>    me.berkeley.edu/hel
>
1/8 NPT is very close to M10x1.0 metric thread. Use a metric pitch gauge to
tell for sure.

John Caffrey
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