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Fw: NPSH threads?

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Subject: Fw: NPSH threads?
From: "Michael Singleton" <one_ton3@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:46:44 -0700

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Singleton" <one_ton3@hotmail.com>
To: "Eric Murray" <ericm@lne.com>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: NPSH threads?


> Why not call the local fire department or other fire agency in your area
and
> ask what they recommend? It'll be a local call.
>
> > Hi y'all.  I'm looking into buying some fire hose to protect my house
> > in the woods.  All the hoses and many nozzles come in either NPSH or
> > NH threads.  When I was a forest firefighter years ago, all the hoses
> > and nozzles etc used one thread.  I think this is NPSH but I'm not
> > sure.... the big issue is that I have a standpipe outlet that's
connected
> > to the water tank, and I need to match the threads on it.  So I need to
> > know what the pitch of NPSH is, and none of my (few) shop books have it,
> > probably 'cause they're pipe threads and not machine threads.
> >
> > So, do any of you know?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > btw, in case you're interested, the house is in the Santa Cruz mountains
> > south-west of San Jose, CA.  The water system has a 10k gallon tank up
> > the hill (so there's still water when the power fails) and a 4" line
> > down to the house and produces about 75psi.  There's sprinklers on the
> > roof that're plumbed into the water system.  The people who built the
> > house cheaped out on some stuff but the water system wasn't one of them.
> > The hoses will be to defend the house if there's ever a big fire, or to
> > help put out a fire in the house itself...  a house across the valley
> > had a chimney fire and burned to the ground last winter because the
> > roads were iced up and the trucks couldn't get up them.
> >
> > --
> >  Eric Murray www.lne.com/~ericm  ericm at the site lne.com  PGP
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> >     Security consulting: security models, reviews, protocols, crypto.
> >
>

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