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Mysterious Valve?

mark smith
mark smith Member Posts: 112
in THE MAIN WALL
Damn fine Pipefittn'

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  • Jeff Lutz
    Jeff Lutz Member Posts: 1
    Mysterious Valve? at LSU Medical Center

    I have attached a picture of an item discovered in a steam line below the hospital. Not a lot of steam experts here in Louisiana. Can you help identify? It would have been installed in the 70's.
  • bob young
    bob young Member Posts: 2,177


    could possibly be an expansion joint
  • J.C.A._3
    J.C.A._3 Member Posts: 2,980
    Looks like,

    Someone didn't have a threading machine handy or didn't know how to work one, and that was a replacement nipple concept in a pinch. Chris
  • jeff_51
    jeff_51 Member Posts: 545
    one more idea

    It looks like the two lines don't line up and nobody had a welder. Looks like a cobbled up offset doesn't it?
  • Pat K
    Pat K Member Posts: 88


    There was an error rendering this rich post.

  • Weezbo
    Weezbo Member Posts: 6,231
    looks to be fire truck

    parts. safety is of prime importance. by keeping them deeply buried under the medical center they can be preserved in thier original condition. :)
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,160
    Thatsa...

    Funkdefino fitting...

    There was a master, and his son, the apprentice making the final connection between the incoming service and the drop riser installed by others. The kid looks at his dad and sez "Dad, how we going to make that tight of an offset with what we got?" The dad looked glowingly back at the kid, smiles and sez "Funkdefino, but we GOTTA get er done!!"...

    ME
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,160
    It's a ...

    Funkdefino fitting.

    At the time of installation, it was done by a master steam fitter, the father, and his apprentice son.

    The kid was down in the hole, looking at the incoming service, and the drop pipe installed by others and sez, "Dad, how the heck we gonna make that small an offset with the fittings we've got to work with?" The dad looks down lovingly at the kid and says "Funkdefino, but we've GOTTA get 'er done!" :-)

    Heard that from my dad more than once,,,

    ME
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,160
    It's a ...

    Funkdefino fitting.

    At the time of installation, it was done by a master steam fitter, the father, and his apprentice son.

    The kid was down in the hole, looking at the incoming service, and the drop pipe installed by others and sez, "Dad, how the heck we gonna make that small an offset with the fittings we've got to work with?" The dad looks down lovingly at the kid and says "Funkdefino kid, but we've GOTTA get 'er done!" :-)

    Heard that from my dad more than once,,,

    ME
  • Weezbo
    Weezbo Member Posts: 6,231
    plagerism isnt my strong suit ...

    so may i ask you if i may use that term if so i will tell you an interesting story about a 350lb parrot .*~/:)
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,160
    By all means....

    Feel free to use as you see fit. Now, about that parrot...

    ME
  • Bob D._2
    Bob D._2 Member Posts: 34
    Steam Line Fitting

    It's a series of ball joints put together to accept excessive expansion/deflection of the line. Since there are several of them in a row, the fella that put it together "cobbed" this setup to just make something work. Take a look at the Advanced Thermal Systems (ATS) catalog. By the way, this is the second time in a month I've had to tell somebody what these are. A couple weeks ago, it was two ball joints in a 16" HTHW system (offset leg).
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