Metric boiler fittings?

I'm looking for metric boiler fittings; globe valves, check valves, etc.

I generally make my own, but thought maybe I'd save some time, but that is one area of this hobby that seems to have not gone metric.

Any thoughts?

Another JohnS

Several of the european steam suppliers do their fittings with metric (fine) threads, try these people for starters. Or these have some sexy looking valves

J

Edited By JasonB on 11/03/2012 19:58:34

There is another reason. It seems that all pipe work is still in inch standard. In Hungary you buy your pipes as 1/2, 3/4. 4, 5/4 etc. the folk who make it and those who sell it do not know what it means. All they know is that it fits together. They do not understand that the 3/4 pipe has a 3/4" hole up the middle. (Oh! 5/4 is 1 1/4"

The copper pipes etc are inch standard not metric although they sell them as 'nominal' metric. This seems to apply to gas fittings as well.

OK I have BSP from 1/8" up to 2 1/2" taps and dies. They are like me -old- but they still work i also have 26 tpi from 1/8" up to 1/2".

rdgs Dick

Hi Jason;

Thanks for the two great links - lots of fun going through them.

Richard, like you I have managed to live in Europe (me, about 5 years, in The Netherlands)

While I did find, like you, that many things were inch-based, it did push me to do model engineering in metric. I now find it easier - *everything* I do is in metric, even if it is inch based plans and material.

Over here in Canada, although we are in the shadow of the USA Imperial Empire, metric is making inroads. I can easily purchase top of the line metric taps/dies locally, while BA, Whitworth, and the ME threads are mail order from Britain or from one of the few specialist suppliers in North America.

Nothing wrong with the ME, BA, etc threads, just that metric threads are more universal IMHO, and I've made them my standard in the workshop, for better or worse!

Another JohnS.