Garden tap thread size

All plumbing threads are still imperial afaik 7/8" BSP = standard thread to be found on 22mm compression fittings if that helps knock up an adaptor.

Bob

On Thursday 23 May 2013 11:57 Dave Baker wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Usually 3/4" BSP but I have seen a 1" BSP - could that be yours?

In the sheds what you can buy will fit... I thought they where 3/4" BSP but thinking about it that is the same a washing machine conector which is smaller, so 1" BSP.

Wikipedia has 1" BSP as 11 threads/inch 1.309 inches dia (2.309 and

AFAIK all garden taps are 3/4" BSP, as are all HPC inlet threads.

Knowing the OP reputation as a precision engineer, I'd assumed his measurements to be reasonably accurate. About 30mm o/d and less than 2mm pitch stacks up with 7/8" BSP x 14tpi. Bob

Don't think you will ever find one :-)

IN 30+ years of selling pressure washers I've never come across one that didn't have a 3/4" bsp male thread for the inlet connection. The Hozelock tap connectors fit them & the tap.

That may be true, indeed there is no reason to doubt your experience, but there are 7/8" threaded objects:

in my travels around europe in a motorhome, i came across loads of different tap connections,

in france it seem'd popular to have 2 taps side by side fed from a large bore pipe, one would be the standard 3/4 fitting for 1/2 inch hosepipe, the other would be the next size up, used with 3/4 inch hosepipe,

difference in flow was fantastic, could fill the 150 litre tank up in about half the time with a 3/4 inch length of hose,

I collected a load of adaptors over time, so i could connect to almost any tap i found, the one that got me was in scotland, service station in aviemore, sized slightly larger than 3/4, but smaller than any of the larger adaptors i had, used the back up of the rubber cuf and jubilee clip to connect to it in the end.

BSP *is* a standard metric thread in Britain. 7/8" BSP is 30.201mm OD x

Colin Bignell

I have garden taps installed between 1977 and last summer. 3 different threads are involved.

You're right. Seems to be a bastard size which no one stocks anything for. Might be easier to change the whole damn tap than try and connect a hose to it. Arse.

ws:knlugh$k1u$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me... > Dave Liquorice wrote: >> On Thu, 23 May

I have the same problem, but it's at an allotment site where I don't own th e tap, I just want to attach my hose to it. Did you ever find a solution?

Hozelock recommended I buy their 5/8" attachment - I think in metric so it took me a few beats to work this one out - hey, isn't 5/8 smaller than the

to change the whole damn tap than try and connect a hose to it. Arse. -- Dave Baker

Yes, if indeed what you had was 3/4" BSP. But bear in mind that the

replying to The Medway Handyman, bond wrote: I finally solved *my* outdoor tap conundrum. 5/8 BSP.

It is customary to quote sufficient of the thread to supply the context of your your reply.

All we see here is your reply, since the other posts to this thread are

He told you that the thread was 5/8 BSP - what more do you want?

replying to Dave Baker, homerman wrote: I made a 7/8 bsp female thread to 3/4 bsp male thread adaptor to suit hoselock connectors also made 7/8 bsp female thread to hoselock quick release connector both work very well I may sell if anyone is interested

replying to homerman, jazmann wrote: Can you upload a photo? Or describe how you made the adapter. If you put it up on ebay I might buy one from you if its difficult