An Coolant Crossover Conversion
#22
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The pipe tap cuts and removes metal from the outermost threads on the head giving the fitting more threads to compress and seal, so you're opening up the threads from the outside - in.
Imagine a perfectly round hole. Now put a cone in that hole, upside down, to plug it. There is only a very small amount of material between the two surfaces sealing it.
Now take the same hole and chamfer the edges slightly, then put the cone in. There's far more surface area to do the sealing. That's the premise behind NPT threads - the more thread engagement, the tighter the seal.
Basic plumbing.
Imagine a perfectly round hole. Now put a cone in that hole, upside down, to plug it. There is only a very small amount of material between the two surfaces sealing it.
Now take the same hole and chamfer the edges slightly, then put the cone in. There's far more surface area to do the sealing. That's the premise behind NPT threads - the more thread engagement, the tighter the seal.
Basic plumbing.
#26
I'm curious, it's easy enough to get a brass fitting with 1/4 npt on one end, but what are you going to? I'm guessing a 90* el with 1/4 npt on one end and ? on the other and then to a hose barb somehow? I considered 1/4" npt 90 with a compression fitting on the other side and using some hard line...