Where can I get whatever this olive is called?

[WaterTight]

So I remembered it back to front then? You have to use same brand of insert with same brand of pipe but - ignoring MI's of course - there's no theoretical reason you couldn't use different brands of fittings on different plastic pipes as the o/d will always be 15mm?

Great tip on conex for imperial. I've never bought them before but oddly enough just found a bag of them a customer gave me a while back. They do look well made.

So would the coned olive used with the original nut with the flat face inside fit and compress properly onto 15mm pipe?

 

[king of pipes]

Posted the nut and cone to you this morning bud. Cheers kop

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Posted the nut and cone to you this morning bud. Cheers kop

Oooo that's going to be one very expensive nut and olive 😀

 

[WaterTight]

So I received the coned olive and flat face nut from kop (many thanks again kop, really, really appreciated.)

It was a pretty neat fit on 15mm pipe.

The nut on the problem fitting I am forced to join onto was quite a bit bigger though. And threads weren't a match.

As was the hole in it. The coned olive seemed a good fit into the body of the tee but was only *just* big enough to be good for the nut. If the nut hole was another mm or two wider it may have distorted the olive as tightened. But with some careful nipping up, checking it was fully compressed, dob of paste and it was happy as larry. So all good in the end. But I guess there were coned olives/nuts available of varying sizes back in the day and maybe you needed not to mix and match your fittings and olives pre-metric?

 

[king of pipes]

Glad you got it sorted mate all the best kop