Re: TRANSITION PIECE

Richard Beale wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> A transition piece is a piece of pipe of heavier wall thickness that has
> been taperbored down to a lesser wall thickness. These are used in
> butt-weld piping. For example, let's say that we have to connect NPS 4
> sch 80 BW and NPS 4 sch 40 BW fittings or pipe. A piece of NPS 4 sch 80
> is cut and taperbored at one end to sch 40. These are usually
> pre-fabricated items and are often assigned a specialty item number.
> They show up in not-to-common circumstances. What's yours? I don't
> believe there is a standard for the length. You need to accomodate the
> taperboring and beveling at both ends. 300mm is a pretty common length I
> would say. Other members please correct me if I am wrong about this last
> part.

Nice write-up.

In the cryo business, a transition piece is an explosion-fused part that melds aluminum with stainless steel for cold box use. I can't say more than that.

Industrial gases and their applications are fascinating. It's pretty leading-edge stuff, get involved in it if you can.

Real men can liquefy air and also eat quiche.

Paul Received on Fri Jan 04 02:39:00 2008