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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: xxmattyxx on February 10, 2008, 02:05:20 pm

Title: 'O' rings
Post by: xxmattyxx on February 10, 2008, 02:05:20 pm
Where can you get the tool that clamps 'O' rings firmly onto pipe?

Ta muchly

Matt
Title: Re: 'O' rings
Post by: mark dew on February 10, 2008, 02:08:34 pm
alex
Title: Re: 'O' rings
Post by: LWC on February 10, 2008, 02:08:51 pm
gardiners sell em

http://www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/Hose_Clamps____O__Ring_Clips.html

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Title: Re: 'O' rings
Post by: xxmattyxx on February 10, 2008, 02:23:06 pm
Apreciated thanks.

Matt
Title: Re: 'O' rings
Post by: [GQC] Tim on February 10, 2008, 02:23:19 pm
Basically just a normal set of pliers.
Title: Re: 'O' rings
Post by: LWC on February 10, 2008, 02:28:40 pm
Basically just a normal set of pliers.

theyre not, you cant use normal pliers, i tried  ::)

they pinch the clip in the right place and make it tight, you try and pinch em with normal pliers and its just dis shapes them
Title: Re: 'O' rings
Post by: williamx on February 10, 2008, 02:51:15 pm
Use pincer pliers, cost £1.00.
Title: Re: 'O' rings
Post by: john tomkins on February 10, 2008, 04:16:50 pm
As williamx says pincers, they are not pliers
Title: Re: 'O' rings
Post by: macmac on February 10, 2008, 06:34:49 pm
Basically just a normal set of pliers.

theyre not, you cant use normal pliers, i tried  ::)

they pinch the clip in the right place and make it tight, you try and pinch em with normal pliers and its just dis shapes them

Yeah, that's true, i tried with normal pliers & made a right cock-up!

Tony
Title: Re: 'O' rings
Post by: L.J.Thorpe on February 10, 2008, 09:18:56 pm
i am slightly confused ;D ;D(nothing new there)if we are talking about crimps then its side cut wire clippers for me,doddle ;D......i always thought o rings were rubber washer thingys ???
Title: Re: 'O' rings
Post by: xxmattyxx on February 10, 2008, 09:22:24 pm
Im confused enough as it is, if I catch Alex in tomorrow morning before he goes off out I might feel a little better about all this bleedin' connector/adaptor/hose-fitting stuff, but for Gawds sake Forpy   ;D dont confuse me even more.

 ;)

Matt
Title: Re: 'O' rings
Post by: L.J.Thorpe on February 10, 2008, 10:19:41 pm
FORPY...i quite like that ;D any way sorry mate do you mean the little metal rings with tags on that you crush to make em grip your pipe(OOER) or something else? by the replies i thought it must be the metal rings but technically an "o"ring is a rubber washer with a circular cross section like what you have in the pre filter housings on your ro man :).......but i think you are talking about crimps and i use a pair of wire clippers but pincer pliers(aka blacksmith pliers) as posted by william x are probably better ;)what are you trying to connect?
Title: Re: 'O' rings
Post by: Highrise on February 11, 2008, 04:38:46 pm
they are called ear clamps  ;)
Title: Re: 'O' rings
Post by: NWH on February 11, 2008, 04:49:17 pm
You can use pliers for the mean time,you clamp the O ring using the part you would cut wires with.