flexi screwed on to iso valve

[Mgrant]

Are flexis ok screwed on to iso valves ornis.a 1/2 female to 15mm compression fitting needed? I have filed the end.of a service valve before to give a flatter surface for the rubber. Whats everyone else do in this situation?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

if you have filed it flat you should be ok but normally just use a 1/2 male iron

 

[REDSAW]

its ok if you dont overtighten and cut into the rubber seal

 

[snowhead]

There's an adapter you can get if you feel the need;

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p14081

 

[Best]

Some of the folk on here use a spare rad valve tail. Guess that's a free solution. :smile:
I prefer to use male straights (or sometimes male bends where more apt) and that means I can put the isolating valves at where I want them - usually lower in a kitchen or basin unit and the male fittings for at the tap flexis.

 

[thereisawizza]

I've found the tail tap adaptors are too hard for an olive to bite into. Just file a nice face onto the valve (if you've already used up all your male irons...)

 

[Mgrant]

Was wanting to fo on to a flexi as it saves on a fitting

 

[Best]

Was wanting to fo on to a flexi as it saves on a fitting

Saves on a fitting?? A 1/2" male straight is about 80 pence.
Or a spare rad valve tail is free.
To join onto an isolating valve is using the wrong fitting. The olive and nut you discard were there for a reason.
I wouldn't waste my time filing a valve

 

[Subby]

Swings and roundabouts for me. Screwing the flexi straight onto a ballofix is not correct but it works and using ballofix > stub of copper > male iron > flexi is adding 2 more joints which have the potential to leak and doesn't look as neat, so as I say it 6 of one half a dozen the other.

 

[rpm]

2 more joints done correctly though, do it the other way and you haven`t got a leg to stand on if it fails at anytime.