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Any one buy bulk bags of end feed fittings?
I find out the say 100 in the about 10/15 are a pain to get on the pipe or just don't fit. Is this normal?
this is from a plumbers merchant but found a really cheap supplyer on eBay now
 
not really, if you have a problem take them back to merchants and complain!
 
Any one buy bulk bags of end feed fittings?
I find out the say 100 in the about 10/15 are a pain to get on the pipe or just don't fit. Is this normal?
this is from a plumbers merchant but found a really cheap supplyer on eBay now

How much on eBay
 
Iv just payed ÂŁ2.11p for 4 end feed straight couplings 15mm and 5 end feed elbows 15mm from my local plumb base!!!!!
 
Decent fittings from a decent merchant at a decent price.

That's why Howsie's gone to Williams
 
How much will you pay for
60 + 15mm couplers
30+ 15mm elbows
10+ 15mm Tees
At your local plumbers merchant??
 
How much will you pay for
60 + 15mm couplers
30+ 15mm elbows
10+ 15mm Tees
At your local plumbers merchant??

That's not really the point. If you get 10-15% rejects from your bag of 100, the average price of your usable fittings goes up. 10-15% failure rate is horribly high. If you buy from your local plumbers' merchant, they will replace the dodgy ones.

But most importantly, if you buy cheap off the internet, it drives local businesses to closure, which is not a good thing. Worth paying a little bit more to support local small businesses.
 
i do use my local plumbase all the time as i can see it from the end of the carpark was just seeing if the price on ebay was a good deal or not
 
Any one buy bulk bags of end feed fittings?
I find out the say 100 in the about 10/15 are a pain to get on the pipe or just don't fit. Is this normal?
this is from a plumbers merchant but found a really cheap supplyer on eBay now

If you wrapped less ptfe round the pipe the fitting would slide on a lot easier.
 
Just wondering if have been roughly handled and bent a bit oval !

Is there tool to get them round again ?
 
It always gets me why they like to make the majority of fittings in these 'pack/bulk deals' couplings, I'd rather have more elbows than couplings.
 
You can go through PayPal to get your money back if the fittings was pony dont have independent plumbers murchent round here we got plumb base Graham's Maidstone plumbing screw fix/plumb fix trade point b&q home base
 
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It always gets me why they like to make the majority of fittings in these 'pack/bulk deals' couplings, I'd rather have more elbows than plings.

Same here. All these bundles have the fittings I use least..
 
Not that good ask for 250 fittings at your local supplier,it includes 22mm fittings and its about ÂŁ50
 
ye a pair of grips for getting fitting round enough to fit over pipe
 
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I use my grips some times just to nip up a fitting hold it in place if I'm doing some fiddly joints
 
Make sure the ones from ebay are legit and not just chinese knock off, there much thinner and they will probably leak after 3 months
 
Don't you carry stock on the van?
Not at the moment as plumbing isn't my main line of work but things will be changing f soon as I work with a mate I can't take over his van. But I'm starting to stock up on fitting and bits
 
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