Its on every plumbing exam.......

Mad Dog_2

????  Mad Dog 

neilc

don't paint the pvc ?

EBEBRATT-Ed

LH thread

Mad Dog_2

Kennedy-Tucker Fitting...Female thread x Lead Caulked joint.  Mad Dog 🐕 

JohnNY

My dad calls it a Tucker fitting. Dresser couplings made them obsolete.
Remember Boston tees? Most people call them cleanouts now.

kcopp

You learn something new every day...

realliveplumber

Dont even ask for an IBTS ferrule anymore.....

dko

https://www.asc-es.com/products/744-tucker-connection

cool
never came across it before! hardly deal with threaded CI drainage fittings in general anymore

Paul Pollets

The state plumbing exam in Washington has no trick questions and is based strictly on the UPC

Mad Dog_2

The first time I heard a LTTY (long turn tee wye) called a 'Boston" was working in Long Island 🏝 mid 1990s  We didn't use that term in Plumbers Local #2 Manhattan & Bronx. Conversely, very few plumbers outside the 5 Boros called a Gang Bathroom copper water frames, "Crotons"
(NYC is supplied by the Croton Watershed) Mad Dog 🐕 

realliveplumber

This is what we call a Boston tee in NJ

realliveplumber

How about a Tyler tee

Intplm.

realliveplumber said:

This is what we call a Boston tee in NJ

This is called a Dandy cleanout in my neck of the woods

Mad Dog_2

Two-way cleanout...Does Tyler make pipe and fittings anymore?   Haven't seen them in many years.  Mad Dog 🐕 

EdTheHeaterMan

Didn't Boston have a Tee party a couple of years back?

I heard it was Revolutionary!

Click on spoiler

Mad Dog_2

We would just call that a Cleanout tee with plug.  Mad Dog 🐕 

Mad Dog_2

Mad Dog_2

A Boston.  Mad Dog 🐕 

hot_rod

realliveplumber said:

How about a Tyler tee

Or a double ell?

realliveplumber

Funny how not even 100 miles apart and the different terminology is used.

JohnNY

hot_rod said:

realliveplumber said:

How about a Tyler tee

Or a double ell?

My suppliers call this, rightfully I'm guessing, a double ell. I had a guy calling it a "pants fitting" because to him it looked like a pair of pants. Then the rest of my guys were calling it a pants fitting. I had to get them in a circle in the yard and holler at them.
More recently, everyone in my shop calls the Ridgid 12-R "the lollipop."
I'm going to lose it one of these days.

realliveplumber

My biggest peeve is someone calling a 2 hole plastic suspension hanger a "mickey mouse" or a mickey. Drive me insane.

Walk up to the counter and ask pothead behind the computer for a bag of 1/2" 2 hole suspension hangers. First there is a blank stare. Then some head scratching. (Literally). Then the light bulb in their head lights up.

"Oh, you mean mickeys?"

No dingdong. I mean 2 hole plastic suspension hangers.

No one in my shop calls them that more than once.

Please speak like you have at least half a brain.....

EBEBRATT-Ed

They are "mickey mouse ears" around here. Western, MA.

I worked in the Boston area a few times. We call the sheet metal clamps used on old work metal electrical boxes "jiffy straps" around here. Dow their (Boston) it took me 15 min at the supply house counter to get across what I wanted they are "Madison Clamps" down there.

But then we call a sandwich a "grinder" down there they are "subs" and that's only 90 miles away.

JohnNY

realliveplumber said:

I recognized this immediately as a mickey (my guys' name for it). This is one of those things that wasn't around when I was running pipe so I don't have another name for it.

mattmia2

EBEBRATT-Ed said:

I worked in the Boston area a few times. We call the sheet metal clamps used on old work metal electrical boxes "jiffy straps" around here. Dow their (Boston) it took me 15 min at the supply house counter to get across what I wanted they are "Madison Clamps" down there.

Some places also call them battleships. I think in southeast michigan i've usually heard madison straps or madison bars.

Mad Dog_2

Long Sandwiches by geographic area:   Subs, Hoagie, grinders, Torpedoes, Big Vinny, Speedies, a Wedge, The Bomb, The Kitchen Sink.  Mad Dog 🐕 

MikeL_2

Mad Dog_2 said:

Long Sandwiches by geographic area:   Subs, Hoagie, grinders, Torpedoes, Big Vinny, Speedies, a Wedge, The Bomb, The Kitchen Sink.  Mad Dog 🐕 

  How about adding : hero & po'boy.

dko

some nicknames and exceptional branding/marketing

sammy screws (rod anchors, sammy is a brand)
kindorf/kindorf clamps (slotted strut channel, strut clamps, kindorf is a brand)
pipe rest (riser clamp)
loop hanger, sprinkler hanger, swivel hanger
fish plate, ceiling plate, hanger plate, square plate
union (actually wants coupling, for the spanish speaking folk)
black pipe (actually wants nh pipe)
nh tee wye (sanitary tee, though some guys actually want a wye which is why anyone who asks for a tee wye I have ask tee or wye.)
teflon (ptfe tape, teflon is a brand)
johni-bolts (closet bolts)
mission coupling (transition coupling, mission is a brand)
offset wrench (wants end wrench)
fernco coupling (flexible rubber cplg, fernco is a brand)
sawzall/sawzall blades (reciprocating saw/blades, sawzall is a Milwaukee trademark)
silver solder (wants sterling solder, contains no silver) unless it's an hvac guy, then stay-brite it is.
the trap with the threads at the end (milwaukee/utility trap)
the fitting with the 2" on the side (side outlet elbow)
shemale (extension cplg)


At the end of the day, all that matters is that you understood.

not nicknames but common mistakes
Not reading a reducing tee correctly, larger size run x run x bull.
Sweat reducing male/female adapters should read sweat size first, then thread size.
Not knowing ID/OD plumbing/hvac and understanding how you should order depending on if you are in a plumbing or hvac supply. unless ordering 1/4 and 3/8 refrigeration coils/compression fittings, then plumbers also use OD.
Not knowing caulk vs silicone
Angle danfoss radiator valves when pipe is coming up from the ground, should use side mount valves.
pro dope on oil lines

GGross

In the wholesale world we must know the correct technical name, as well as the nickname each contractor uses for each item. It gets a bit confusing to say the least, but at the end of the day everyone knows the nickname for a gas riser and that's all that really counts 😂

Intplm.

This thread brings something to mind.

Is it just me?

When I first started, when describing a tee, wasn't the only numbers you needed to describe it was the run if it was one dimension and then the branch.
For example.......3"x2" tee. The run is three inch and the branch is two inch.

If on the run the dimension changed then you would describe it in that fashion.

I remember a few years ago...maybe ten years or so ago, I was corrected and almost scolded by someone much younger than me because I didn't say all of the dimensions when say thirty-five years before I would always ask for a fitting without three dimensions unless it was required, and never had a problem.

What gives?

Alan (California Radiant) Forbes

And these?

Intplm.

Alan (California Radiant) Forbes said:

And these?

Oh Yeah! This little baby.
@Alan (California Radiant) Forbes What do you call this?

Alan (California Radiant) Forbes

What do you call this?

I think by now it's universal, no?

Intplm.

Alan (California Radiant) Forbes said:

What do you call this?

I think by now it's universal, no?

NO! lol

dko

The newer guys don't even use those anymore, haven't sold a stud puncher in a long time too.
They just use suspension clamp for everything

Intplm.

dko said:

The newer guys don't even use those anymore, haven't sold a stud puncher in a long time too.
They just use suspension clamp for everything

Yes.... the Micky mouse ear hangers. Are we back to that again?

But I use the stub insert hanger that @Alan (California Radiant) Forbes pictured above on metal studs. Or is it called something else?

EBEBRATT-Ed

@Intplm.

As far as tees go i started in 73 and was always taught that you put down all three dimensions when ordering a tee. but I have seen it done both ways and putting down the dimension of the second run is really not needed.......if the person filling the order knows what he is doing.

GGross

Intplm. said:

This thread brings something to mind.

Is it just me?

When I first started, when describing a tee, wasn't the only numbers you needed to describe it was the run if it was one dimension and then the branch.
For example.......3"x2" tee. The run is three inch and the branch is two inch.

If on the run the dimension changed then you would describe it in that fashion.

I remember a few years ago...maybe ten years or so ago, I was corrected and almost scolded by someone much younger than me because I didn't say all of the dimensions when say thirty-five years before I would always ask for a fitting without three dimensions unless it was required, and never had a problem.

What gives?

That is still an acceptable way to order a tee where I am from, we try to explain this to the new guys as it can be pretty confusing when you are not familiar with the product yet. You have to remember also, that not every plumber orders tees correctly and we often have to decipher shorthand to figure out what someone is actually looking for. For example today I was sent an order that asked for " 2ea - IP ball valve" and "1ea- IP adapter" with no additional context whatsoever. It doesn't really excuse the younger guy's ignorance on tees, but maybe explains why he acted that way a little bit.

dko

You win a cookie if you can guess what skaspote is

Mad Dog_2

Yes..I remember that...The New Supply House Bullies were very adamant about that.  They probably had a National Conference and voted on it.  We also always called the copper tubing one size smaller than 1/2" Nominal, 1/2 " O.D. Basin & Toilet rank supplies we called 3/8" and so on.  One day, they all start saying.  :" you mean 15/16th??  Whatever!  

Grainger is set up like that too.  Ok, I need 1/2" Wall Armaflex for 3/4"  copper..."
Wait...so you want 7/8" I.D.????  Maddening.  

Mad Dog_2

Hose BITE?   SKASPOTE?  ROYGBIV?? what is the frequency Kenneth?  (Anyone remember that one??)  Mad Dog 🐕