- “Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.”
Christopher Morley
PLUMBING MADE EASY : A Book For Aspiring Learners¶
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Introduction of Plumbing
- Chapter 2: Plumber’s Hand Tools
- Pipe wrench of size 12”, 9”, and up to 18” long
- Pair of footprints
- Stocks and dies, up to 2” diameter, replacement of cutters
- Wrench chain
- Hack’s saw frame and blade
- Measuring tape
- Soldering iron
- Tin snips
- Rasp
- Caulking iron
- Adjustable wrench up to 12” long
- Claw hammers /Ball peen hammer/Claw hammer
- Pipe cutter-use and care adjustment of cutting wheels
- Drilling machine and its bits
- Pipe vise
- Bench vice
- Spanners of various size
- Folding rules metallic/steel
- Try square, Vernier caliper joining elements: - Nuts, bolts, washer, pins, screws and rivets and jute/pipe tape and lead
- What’s Next
- Chapter 3: Galvanized Pipe Fittings/PVC fittings
- Chapter 4: Pipe Threading to Dimension
- Fixing pipe to pipe vice
- Measuring pipe to millimeter
- Measuring methods
- Die holding/threading methods
- Die checking/cleaning/oiling
- Die tightening and loosing/fixing cutter
- Checking accurate threading and its sharpness
- Doing loosen the die fixing the pipe to die and repeat the threading twice for sharpness
- What’s Next
- Chapter 5: Assembling the Threaded Pipe to Fittings with Pipe Tape as per drawing
- Visualization of drawing in detail
- Collecting the fittings (allocate all fitting stuffs)
- Collecting the threaded pipes in position
- Fixing the fittings with pipe tape to pipe in position (wrap the tape around pipe and join)
- Checking the tightness/testing pipe joints
- Adjusting measurement
- Marking, laying, using chalk line to wall/floor/ceiling
- Accurate pipe cutting with margin of necessary threads to pipe
- Fixing pipe to pipe vice
- Positioning techniques
- What’s Next
- Chapter 6: Making up H.D.P fittings
- Chapter 7: Bar Bending Works
- Chapter 8: Fixing or Fastening Rods to Wire