
Elements of Plumbing
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1918]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or m...
Chapters (233)
- TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ELEMENTS OF PLUMBING
- CHAPTER I
- Plumbing Fixtures and Trade
- CHAPTER II
- The Use and Care of the Soldering Iron. Fluxes. Making Different Soldering Joints
- FLUX
- PLUMBERS' SOILS AND PASTE
- MAKING DIFFERENT SOLDER JOINTS
- SEAMS
- CHAPTER III
- Mixtures of Solders for Soldering Iron and Wiping. Care of Solders. Melting Points of Metals and Alloys
- CHAPTER IV
- Making and Care of Wiping Cloths
- CHAPTER V
- Preparing and Wiping Joints
- HALF-INCH ROUND WIPED JOINT
- ROUND JOINT—45° TO RIGHT
- ROUND JOINT 45°—LEFT
- ROUND JOINT—VERTICAL
- CHAPTER VI
- Preparing and Wiping Joints (Continued) TWO-INCH BRASS FERRULE
- FOUR-INCH BRASS FERRULE
- STOP COCK
- BRANCH JOINT
- BRANCH JOINT PLACED FLAT
- BRANCH VERTICAL
- BRANCH HORIZONTAL
- ONE AND ONE-HALF-INCH BRANCH JOINT
- BRANCH JOINT WIPED FLAT
- BRANCH HELD VERTICAL
- RUN HELD VERTICALLY
- BIB
- DRUM TRAP
- PREPARING INLET PIPE
- THE PRACTICAL USE OF THE PRECEDING EXERCISES
- CHAPTER VII
- Laying Terra-cotta and Making Connections to Public Sewers. Water Connections To Mains in Streets TERRA-COTTA PIPE
- LAYING OF PIPE
- LAYING PIPE IN TUNNELS
- Table of Standard Terra-cotta Pipe
- WATER CONNECTION AND SERVICE
- LAYING PIPE
- Sewer Installation
- Water Service
- CHAPTER VIII
- Installing of French or Sub-soil Drains
- CHAPTER IX
- Storm and Sanitary Drainage with Sewage Disposal in View
- CHAPTER X
- Soil and Waste Pipes and Vents. Tests SOIL PIPES
- Size of Soil Pipes
- SOIL-PIPE FITTINGS
- WROUGHT-IRON AND STEEL PIPE
- Size of Waste Pipes
- VENTS
- CHAPTER XI
- House Traps, Fresh-air Connections, Drum Traps, and Non-syphoning Traps
- FRESH-AIR CONNECTIONS
- DRUM TRAP
- NON-SYPHONING TRAP
- CHAPTER XII
- Pipe Threading
- CHAPTER XIII
- Cold-water Supply. Test
- CHAPTER XIV
- Hot-water Heaters. Instantaneous Coil and Storage Tanks. Return Circulation, Hot-water Lines and Expansion
- CHAPTER XV
- Insulation of Piping to Eliminate Conduction, Radiation, Freezing, and Noise
- CHAPTER XVI
- "Durham" or "Screw Pipe" Work. Pipe and Fittings
- PIPING
- FITTINGS
- HANGERS AND SUPPORTS
- MEASUREMENTS
- Measurements
- FIXTURE CONNECTIONS
- CHAPTER XVII
- Gas Fitting, Pipe and Fittings, Threading, Measuring, and Testing GAS AND ITS USE IN BUILDINGS
- SHOWER-BATH CONNECTIONS
- CHAPTER XVIII
- Plumbing Codes
- INDEX
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