PTFE pipe repair

No experience of that product, but have bought polyweld/mekweld from them in the past, their webshop has been offline for years while they "move factory" they're they only company I've known to use pay after delivery ...

In message , Bill writes

No just use a Philmac coupler with the appropriate inserts.

Black alkathene used *Johnson fittings* (I think) when it was first introduced.

In message , Tim Lamb writes

Thanks to all. I have passed the various bits of info on.

I am not sure whether this outdoor pipe was a standard obsolete type. Certainly, I remember trotting round a lot of plumbing suppliers with a pipe end and a lot of shaking heads.

I know his plumber said the house plumbing used some peculiar non-standard marine pipework.

Alkathene was we called it when Dad dug another well and got it connected circa 1966,

Could it have been these people .

yes , for a short term emergency while the proper bits were obtained but on a pipe that could be shut off after use.

A repair that could be fitted and forgotten would take more effort and cost more than using the right parts.

G.Harman

You need to identify the material. The stuff based on polyurethane had some wonderful glue called urethane bond made I think by Dow Corning, but not seen it lately. I assume this is feeding something of yours and not somebody elses? If its bodged the people it feeds will not be best pleased. Brian

What you need is modern blue pipe to effect the repair and two couplers to the old pipe which is as you say of a different diameter

En el artículo , Bill escribió:

Bit of tyre rubber over the hole and one or two jubilee clips? Space the screw thread parts apart so that you have the bands sited next to each other covering the hole.

Two Johnson couplings and a bit of pipe of a *similar* size.

It's polythene not PTFE. It has a very thick wall compared to the HDPE (blue stuf) we use today. An ordinary 22mm compression fitting will usually do the fix.

I have bought from them in the past, they're OK, but they've been using excuses like moving factory for way too long for not having a working web shop ... phone them maybe?