“Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.”

• Christopher Morley

PLUMBING MADE EASY : A Book For Aspiring Learners

Chapters:

• Introduction
  • Authors:
• Chapter 1: Introduction of Plumbing
  • History of plumbing
  • Importance of plumbing
  • Plumbing and sanitary
  • Scope of plumbing
  • What’s Next
• Chapter 2: Plumber’s Hand Tools
  • Pipe wrench of size 12”, 9”, and up to 18” long
  • Pair of footprints
  • Stocks and dies, up to 2” diameter, replacement of cutters
  • Wrench chain
  • Hack’s saw frame and blade
  • Measuring tape
  • Soldering iron
  • Tin snips
  • Rasp
  • Caulking iron
  • Adjustable wrench up to 12” long
  • Claw hammers /Ball peen hammer/Claw hammer
  • Pipe cutter-use and care adjustment of cutting wheels
  • Drilling machine and its bits
  • Pipe vise
  • Bench vice
  • Spanners of various size
  • Folding rules metallic/steel
  • Try square, Vernier caliper joining elements: - Nuts, bolts, washer, pins, screws and rivets and jute/pipe tape and lead
  • What’s Next
• Chapter 3: Galvanized Pipe Fittings/PVC fittings
  • G.I pipe nipples
  • G.I elbows
  • G.I tee
  • G.I cross
  • G.I reducing elbow
  • G.I sockets
  • G.I reducing sockets
  • G.I lock nut
  • G.I plugs and caps
  • Flange unions (Gasket) (review needed)
  • G.I gate valve (heavy and light)
  • Foot valve/Glove valve
  • Pipe tape
  • Float valve or ball valve
  • What’s Next
• Chapter 4: Pipe Threading to Dimension
  • Fixing pipe to pipe vice
  • Measuring pipe to millimeter
  • Measuring methods
  • Die holding/threading methods
  • Die checking/cleaning/oiling
  • Die tightening and loosing/fixing cutter
  • Checking accurate threading and its sharpness
  • Doing loosen the die fixing the pipe to die and repeat the threading twice for sharpness
  • What’s Next
• Chapter 5: Assembling the Threaded Pipe to Fittings with Pipe Tape as per drawing
  • Visualization of drawing in detail
  • Collecting the fittings (allocate all fitting stuffs)
  • Collecting the threaded pipes in position
  • Fixing the fittings with pipe tape to pipe in position (wrap the tape around pipe and join)
  • Checking the tightness/testing pipe joints
  • Adjusting measurement
  • Marking, laying, using chalk line to wall/floor/ceiling
  • Accurate pipe cutting with margin of necessary threads to pipe
  • Fixing pipe to pipe vice
  • Positioning techniques
  • What’s Next
• Chapter 6: Making up H.D.P fittings
  • Definition of HDP pipe and fittings
  • Collecting hot plate with power
  • Collecting HDP pipe with necessary diameters
  • Using miter box cutting pipe to 90°
  • Clean, trim and weld the two halves of pipe to form 90° elbow (L)
  • Making Tee
  • Making Wyes (Y)
  • What’s Next
• Chapter 7: Bar Bending Works
  • Straight making bars methods
  • Bar tying methods
  • Categories of bars, e.g. Mild steel bar, T.O.R steel bar and TORKARI bars
  • Making L(Hook) procedure to Hook making die and bench
  • Making 45 degrees crank procedure
  • Making chair to fix reinforcement methods
  • Making overlaps to steel bars
  • What’s Next
• Chapter 8: Fixing or Fastening Rods to Wire
  • Single knot tying to slab methods
  • Double knot tying to slab methods
  • Tying to beam methods
  • Tying to column methods
  • Checking tightness of stirrups to main bar loops
  • Making stirrups or rings
  • What’s next?

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

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