Looking for fittings

[slash007]

I'm trying to find 1/4" MPT x 1/8" Male Flare elbows to replace a bunch on a Ginsan SS stand, but have not had any luck finding them in the usual places online. Anyone have a good source for them? Also need the 1/8" flare swivel x 1/4 barb fittings to go into the hoses they use. Thanks.

 

[MEP001]

Are you sure they're 1/8" flare? I'm pretty certain they're 1/4" NPT to 1/4" flare elbows and 1/4" flare to 1/4" barbs.

FWIW I always replace the flare/barb/hose setup with 3/8" OD tubing.

 

[slash007]

I took one off to confirm. I wondered about just changing them to tubing, I'll probably just do that instead.

 

[MEP001]

FWIW I use a compression fitting that has the ferrule captive in the nut. They grip onto the tubing without an internal insert, which some chemicals will eat away. I messed around with some while I was blowing out lines before a freeze, and just barely tightening them beyond hand tight with a wrench was enough to keep the tube from pulling out by hand or blowing out with 100 PSI air. I'm just done with push-to-connect fittings of any kind, one day you walk into the room and a whole bank of the hardest ones to get to start spewing everywhere. I ain't got time for that.

 

[Dan kamsickas]

Where on the pump stand are you finding those? The only thing I can think of that's close is on the soap/wax/trickle solenoids and they're 1/4" x 1/4"............unless someone did some "field engineering".

 

[slash007]

Where on the pump stand are you finding those? The only thing I can think of that's close is on the soap/wax/trickle solenoids and they're 1/4" x 1/4"............unless someone did some "field engineering".

They probably are 1/4"x 1/4". They looked like that to me, but guy that was working on them tried telling me the flare was 1/8". Not finding that size anywhere spoke volumes.

 

[MEP001]

He might have measured the inside diameter of one of the 1/4" flare elbow fittings, which is much closer to 1/8" than 1/4".