[pappagor]

i found this in a house we are redoing. in all of my 40 + years i have never seen one untill now:blink:

 

[rrk]

I do work in a couple of houses that have many of those, I don't remember what they are called though. My plumbers said those were used when plumbing was like artwork, it was meant to be seen.

 

[nickko]

I have seen them in copper over the years. Mostly in homes built in the sixties. They were used to jump the hot tube over the cold or vice versa.
Nicko

 

[dielectricunion]

What purpose did it serve? It doesn't 90° right? Just a straight section. This book I'm reading has some cool weird little history in it.

 

[pappagor]

it went over one of the water lines.
the home was built in 1890 or 1903 it had gas lines for lighting and steam heat there was like 4 pickup loads of pipe that we removed

 

[rselectric1]

Back in my new construction days, (and i'm in conduit land) we had to plan ahead so pipes weren't stacked below each other with offsets on a potentially (future) ceiling.

All I can think of is that is an extremely cool way of doing that for plumbers.

Just my guess.:thumbsup:

 

[dielectricunion]

Oh yeah, that makes sense. Beats a copper offset with 45s or bending three point saddles in electrical... although back then maybe they were running all rigid electrical pipe?

 

[KillerToiletSpider]

It's called a crossover fitting, designed for use in tight pipe chases back when steam heat was used in high rises, they made them in larger sizes for vent lines as well.

 

[pappagor]

it was cool that they did them back then. do they make them today

 

[steex]

I bet you can still buy them in a good supply house, or you can make something close out of four 45s if you really care to.

 

[rrk]

I did work in a house that was built in 1909 and had the entire basement ceiling covered in T&G beadboard. All of the water lines and electric lines were surface mounted, the house had 4 or 5 bathrooms and the pipes ran all over the place with many of those fittings. The knob and tube wiring ran in wood tracks with a wood cover screwed on, at each splice/ intersection there was a wood box and the track would go off in a different direction. Really amazing to see.