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  2. Piping and plumbing fitting - Wikipedia

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    Assembling threaded pipe is labor-intensive, and requires skill and planning to allow lengths of pipe to be screwed together in sequence. Most threaded-pipe systems require strategically located pipe-union fittings in final assembly. The threaded pipe is heavy and requires adequate attachment to support its weight.

  3. Plumbing - Wikipedia

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    The pipes were hollowed-out logs which were tapered at the end with a small hole in which the water would pass through. [23] The multiple pipes were then sealed together with hot animal fat. Wooden pipes were used in Philadelphia, [24] Boston, and Montreal in the 1800s. Built-up wooden tubes were widely used in the US during the 20th century.

  4. Automatic bleeding valve - Wikipedia

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    Automatic valves are used to release trapped air as it collects. They are not a substitute for bleeding a system manually when it is first filled during commissioning, nor for remedial bleeding if the system becomes choked with trapped air. In those cases, individual bleed screws on each radiator, or high pipe run, are opened manually.

  5. Prepare for the coldest Arctic blast: How to keep your pipes ...

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    Pipes exposed to "severe cold" including outdoor hose bibs, swimming pool supply lines, and water sprinkler lines. (If you have swimming pool or sprinkler supply lines, they needed drained too.)

  6. Radiator (heating) - Wikipedia

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    A radiator is a device that transfers heat to a medium primarily through thermal radiation.In practice, the term radiator is often applied to any number of devices in which a fluid circulates through exposed pipes (often with fins or other means of increasing surface area), notwithstanding that such devices tend to transfer heat mainly by convection and might logically be called convectors.

  7. Hose clamp - Wikipedia

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    Some things seen assembled with hose clamps include the tail boom on a GMP Cricket model helicopter, a homemade gas scooter, makeshift pipe hangers, mounts for rooftop TV and shortwave antennas, and virtually every imaginable automobile body component. Hose clamps are commonly used in the agriculture industry as well.

  8. A rising crisis: How to help young girls with low self-esteem

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    Young girls have long been a vulnerable group. But in the past few years, alarming trends have been witnessed that need to be swiftly addressed by families, communities, and society as a whole.

  9. New Orleans terrorist’s allegiance to ISIS shows group are ...

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    FBI photo of 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, identified as the deceased suspect of the New Orleans terrorist attack on New Year’s Day that killed 15 and injured dozens more.