Baseboard copper pipe thickness

Mark_24

I just purchased fin tube baseboard radiators. I used 3/4 copper type L under the floor, up through the floor, then to my surprise a type M (I think cause of thickness)baseboard fin tube assembly! Man this stuff is thin. Is this the industry standard? Or did I buy real cheap stuff?

Alan(CaliforniaRadiant)Forbes

BB tubing thickness

I think it's even thinner than type M. Maybe we should call it type N.

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ScottMP

Thats the industry standard

Maybe a manufacturer can shed some light on this. I was allways told that the tubing was slid thru the aluminum fins and then a swedge was drawn thru the tubing to expand it and grab the fins. Don't know what size tube it is before the swedging.

Any one know the process.

Scott

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Unknown

You have it right, Scott.

> Maybe a manufacturer can shed some light on this.

> I was allways told that the tubing was slid thru

> the aluminum fins and then a swedge was drawn

> thru the tubing to expand it and grab the fins.

> Don't know what size tube it is before the

> swedging.

>

> Any one know the

> process.

>

> Scott

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Unknown

You have it right, Scott.

> Maybe a manufacturer can shed some light on this.

> I was allways told that the tubing was slid thru

> the aluminum fins and then a swedge was drawn

> thru the tubing to expand it and grab the fins.

> Don't know what size tube it is before the

> swedging.

>

> Any one know the

> process.

>

> Scott

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Unknown

You have it right, Scott.

When finished, if it is Slant/Fin, it is rated at 200 PSI at 250° F., on our lowest rated model, and some models have a higher pressure rating.

Thinner metal transfers heat to the fins faster.

Noel

ScottMP

So Noel

Could you find out what tubing is used ? Is it made just for the BB manufacturers ?

What schedule is it ?

Scott

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Unknown

It's custom

It isn't even 7/8" O.D. until it gets expanded within the fins.

I'm not sure how it is labeled, but it is made expressly for expanding to 7/8" O.D. within baseboard fins and to meet and exceed test pressures afterwards.

It's special tube.

Noel

bob young

if it was any thinner it would be reynolds wrap lol

Unknown

So , the swedge

is part of the manufacturing process ? We use Argo and almost every swedge comes bent in , so we cut em em out anyways .

Weezbo

)) SO!>>>.....

Type O copper held together by brute force of the fins:)) I love it.I always Knew there was some Engineering involved ))) any thinner I think we could Read Thru it! )

joe_17

Is it

Swedged or swadged?

ScottMP

Ron

Your talking about the Female end. what Noel is saying is the whole tubing is expanded after it has the fins around it. It expands to grab the fins. Thats what all that oil is.

Scott

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Unknown

Ahh , I get it now

Slant Fin doesn't go crazy with the oil , or they use a different type because this Argo baseboard - on the first heatup it feels like your up in the clouds with all the white smoke from the oil burning away .

hr

Oh it's thin alright

and a bit of a pain to cut with a tubing cutter. But it works!

Can't say I have ever seen the tube fail. I've been installing Slant Fin since the 1960's, when I helped my Dad.

Make sure you ream the burr, you'll get a big one with a dull tubing cutter!

hot rod

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Mark Eatherton1

Its neither....

It is swaged.

(v. t.) To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape.

THe A is a long A. Pronounced S-U-WAGED

ME

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