converting a push nipple fitting to pipe thread

Mark Biro

Ha. I look at a 2-foot section here, threaded both ends, and wonder what I will do with it. If it's a match for you (mnfrs, styles, heights differ) maybe we could connect?

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Marson

coverting push nipple to pipe thread.

I got some cast iron baseboard radiators from an old house which I had hoped to use in my own house--I'm adding a small addition, and I have hydronic heat with old cast iron radiators. I don't really have room in the new addition for the standard cast iron radiators.

Trouble is, when I got the cast iron baseboards home, I only found four sections that had pipe thread connectors--the rest were run in series connected by push nipples. so in effect, I hauled home two radiators. Is there any way to adapt a push nipple fitting to pipe thread?

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Marson

Sounds like you were not lucky enough to pick-up the R & L end sections, been there, done that.
If you have a really good quality, sharp 3/4" pipe tap, you should be able to cut a thread, I`ve done it.

Dave

Mark Biro

Are you able to find more pieces?

I am in a similar situation... odds and ends of CIBB.

Where are you? Here in Minneapolis, Bauer Bros. salvage has scads of CIBB sections, mids and ends, many styles. But pricey.

Which might be easier for you -- or less hard -- finding and fitting sections, or cutting "x" number of threads?

Marson

Thanks, Gregg. I'm in Duluth, so I might have to check out Bauer Bros. I do have some lefts and rights, but my big problem is I have a small powder room which might just have room for one section--I'll have to try tapping one end. I've got an excess of middle sections, so I've got nothing to lose.