Elements of Plumbing

About this eBook

Author

Dibble, Samuel Edward, 1882-1970

Credits

Produced by Suzan Flanagan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

TH: Technology: Building construction

Subject

Plumbing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Category

Text

eBook-No.

25269

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25269

Release Date

May 1, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS — ELEMENTS OF PLUMBING
4. 4.CHAPTER I — Plumbing Fixtures and Trade
5. 5.CHAPTER II — The Use and Care of the Soldering Iron. Fluxes. Making Different Soldering Joints — FLUX — PLUMBERS' SOILS AND PASTE — MAKING DIFFERENT SOLDER JOINTS — SEAMS
6. 6.CHAPTER III — Mixtures of Solders for Soldering Iron and Wiping. Care of Solders. Melting Points of Metals and Alloys
7. 7.CHAPTER IV — Making and Care of Wiping Cloths
8. 8.CHAPTER V — Preparing and Wiping Joints — HALF-INCH ROUND WIPED JOINT — ROUND JOINT—45° TO RIGHT — ROUND JOINT 45°—LEFT — ROUND JOINT—VERTICAL
9. 9.CHAPTER VI — Preparing and Wiping Joints ( Continued ) — TWO-INCH BRASS FERRULE — FOUR-INCH BRASS FERRULE — STOP COCK — BRANCH JOINT — BRANCH JOINT PLACED FLAT — BRANCH VERTICAL — BRANCH HORIZONTAL — ONE AND ONE-HALF-INCH BRANCH JOINT — BRANCH JOINT WIPED FLAT — BRANCH HELD VERTICAL — RUN HELD VERTICALLY — BIB — DRUM TRAP — PREPARING INLET PIPE — THE PRACTICAL USE OF THE PRECEDING EXERCISES
10. 10.CHAPTER VII — Laying Terra-cotta and Making Connections to Public Sewers. Water Connections To Mains in Streets — TERRA-COTTA PIPE — LAYING OF PIPE — LAYING PIPE IN TUNNELS — Table of Standard Terra-cotta Pipe — WATER CONNECTION AND SERVICE — LAYING PIPE — Sewer Installation — Water Service
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII — Installing of French or Sub-soil Drains
12. 12.CHAPTER IX — Storm and Sanitary Drainage with Sewage Disposal in View
13. 13.CHAPTER X — Soil and Waste Pipes and Vents. Tests — SOIL PIPES — Size of Soil Pipes — SOIL-PIPE FITTINGS — WROUGHT-IRON AND STEEL PIPE — Size of Waste Pipes — VENTS
14. 14.CHAPTER XI — House Traps, Fresh-air Connections, Drum Traps, and Non-syphoning Traps — FRESH-AIR CONNECTIONS — DRUM TRAP — NON-SYPHONING TRAP
15. 15.CHAPTER XII — Pipe Threading
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII — Cold-water Supply. Test
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV — Hot-water Heaters. Instantaneous Coil and Storage Tanks. Return Circulation, Hot-water Lines and Expansion
18. 18.CHAPTER XV — Insulation of Piping to Eliminate Conduction, Radiation, Freezing, and Noise
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI — "Durham" or "Screw Pipe" Work. Pipe and Fittings — PIPING — FITTINGS — HANGERS AND SUPPORTS — MEASUREMENTS — Measurements — FIXTURE CONNECTIONS
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII — Gas Fitting, Pipe and Fittings, Threading, Measuring, and Testing — GAS AND ITS USE IN BUILDINGS — SHOWER-BATH CONNECTIONS
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII — Plumbing Codes
22. 22.INDEX

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