Fitting - What's it called?

Unknown

You mean something like this?<BR>Most refer to them as vent tees.<BR><BR>Dave

tonypete

Fitting - what's it called?

Guys - I sure you have covered this many times but I just can't find it.

I have a SlantFin baseboard radiator that I am replacing due to the fact that my youngest son (soon to be late son if he keeps it up) has beat to death with his bicycle. Don't ask. . .

I want to put in a Hygrovent or something similar to help me when I need to bleed any air out of the system. What is the proper name for the brass 90 fitting that I need that I'll use to connect the baseboard radiator and my 3/4" supply line? The old one was what I call a 90 vent elbow (and some other guys call a drain tee). But, that fitting will not accept a 1/8" Hygrovent type valve - it needs to have the female threads to accept it.

Or alternatively, can I use a 1/8" x 1/8" hex bushing to connect the Hygrovent and a new 90 vent elbow?

Am I making any sense? Thanks loads!

Robert O'Brien

It's

called a baseboard tee.A properly designed loop system doesn't need them

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JohnNY

?

It's definitely called a baseboard tee yet should be called a band-aid fitting.

As Robert suggested, if you got air in a place where this thing helps you get it out, then you've got a design/installation problem.

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Leo_15

Unless it is a momoflo

If it is a monoflo system it needs a coin vent.

Leo

mtfallsmikey

Might be a Band-Aid today

But was SOP when installing baseboard (in my youth!)

Charlie from wmass

well band aids are good to have when you need them

How many properly designed loops do we see every day? I can only say a few and half of them either Da or I installed the other half seemed to have been mistakes as to the "normal" way of installing. I would prefer to have a vent and not need it then have it the other way around. I would use a coin vent on it though for that January bleed out at midnight.