Clean It Up

UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: ben M on July 24, 2015, 09:27:27 pm

Title: help please
Post by: ben M on July 24, 2015, 09:27:27 pm
(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1437769813_image.jpg)(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1437769274_download (2))

Where i can get this please? it is connected to my tank.

Thanks

ben
Title: Re: help please
Post by: Smudger on July 24, 2015, 09:30:36 pm
What is ?
Title: Re: help please
Post by: ben M on July 24, 2015, 09:32:07 pm
pic now  ;)
Title: Re: help please
Post by: Ben Marriott on July 24, 2015, 09:32:16 pm
Looks like a 1/2 male x 1/4 barb 90 elbow in some sort of plastic - polypropylene?
Title: Re: help please
Post by: ben M on July 24, 2015, 09:36:47 pm
maybe Ben  :-[ it is connected to a normal hose to my pump,broke it this morning,lost 500 litres of pure water  :'(
Title: Re: help please
Post by: ben M on July 24, 2015, 09:41:30 pm
any link where i can buy this please?
Title: Re: help please
Post by: CleanClear on July 24, 2015, 10:02:16 pm
http://www.windowcleaningwarehouse.co.uk/threaded-tank-fittings.html
Title: Re: help please
Post by: ben M on July 24, 2015, 10:34:46 pm
http://www.windowcleaningwarehouse.co.uk/threaded-tank-fittings.html
thanks,any plumbing store maybe,need it for tomorrow?
Title: Re: help please
Post by: CleanClear on July 24, 2015, 10:57:43 pm
http://www.windowcleaningwarehouse.co.uk/threaded-tank-fittings.html
thanks,any plumbing store maybe,need it for tomorrow?

I've never had any luck with plumbing places for anything like that. Aquarium shops etc.....maybe.
Title: Re: help please
Post by: Smurf on July 25, 2015, 11:55:32 am
If it's just cracked say on the bend and not broken away completely then maybe you could try fixing the leak first?
Not sure if that is a tank outlet or a pump inlet but you should be able to get one online next day delivery if you can't find one local.
Title: Re: help please
Post by: richard groves on July 25, 2015, 12:38:36 pm
Just replace it all with brass from a plumbing shop.
A double male 1/2" threaded joiner to female to male reducer and then a ball lever valve and a male hoselock garden tap fitting.
Plus if you had used some type of shut off valve from your tank then you would not have lost 500 liters of water either.
Title: Re: help please
Post by: Smurf on July 25, 2015, 12:42:48 pm
Nice one  ;)

Just replace it all with brass from a plumbing shop.
A double male 1/2" threaded joiner to female to male reducer and then a ball lever valve and a male hoselock garden tap fitting.
Plus if you had used some type of shut off valve from your tank then you would not have lost 500 liters of water either.
Title: Re: help please
Post by: ben M on July 26, 2015, 11:52:23 am
If it's just cracked say on the bend and not broken away completely then maybe you could try fixing the leak first?
Not sure if that is a tank outlet or a pump inlet but you should be able to get one online next day delivery if you can't find one local.
it is broken,it is a tank outlet
Title: Re: help please
Post by: ben M on July 26, 2015, 11:53:04 am
Nice one  ;)

Just replace it all with brass from a plumbing shop.
A double male 1/2" threaded joiner to female to male reducer and then a ball lever valve and a male hoselock garden tap fitting.
Plus if you had used some type of shut off valve from your tank then you would not have lost 500 liters of water either.
any link where i can get that please? thanks
Title: Re: help please
Post by: richard groves on July 26, 2015, 12:20:05 pm
Your best bet is to go to a local plumbers merchants with a counter, show them the broken part and explain what you want, sorry no links, sending this from a crap phone so difficult. OR look in a screwfix or toolstation catalogue ( not online, the book is easier if not sure what you are looking for )
Title: Re: help please
Post by: richard groves on July 26, 2015, 12:22:02 pm
It would be easier for me to take a picture of my tank than explain but not home at the moment.
Title: Re: help please
Post by: SeanK on July 26, 2015, 12:58:04 pm
Ben Sureclean in N. Ireland sell them www.surecleansystems.com just click on the tank section.
Title: Re: help please
Post by: ben M on July 26, 2015, 07:52:33 pm
all sorted,bought that:

http://www.screwfix.com/p/drain-cock-type-a-heavy-pattern/96725

Thanks everyone for you help.

Ben
Title: Re: help please
Post by: 8weekly on July 26, 2015, 09:07:32 pm
all sorted,bought that:

http://www.screwfix.com/p/drain-cock-type-a-heavy-pattern/96725

Thanks everyone for you help.

Ben
It will leak. I bought a used 400 litre tank with one fitted and it leaked. I replaced it and it leaked again. A plumber friend told me that they aren't designed to have that weight of water pushing on them (or something like that).