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flange

A flange is a protruded ridge, lip or rim, either external or internal, that serves to increase strength (as the flange of an iron beam such as an I-beam or a T-beam); for easy attachment/transfer of contact force with another object (as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc., or on the lens mount of a camera); or for stabilizing and guiding the movements of a machine or its parts (as the inside flange of a rail car or tram wheel, which keep the wheels from running off the rails). The term "flange" is also used for a kind of tool used to form flanges.

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  1. B

    Replacing a toilet, but don't recognise this soil flange in the floor to join a pan connector?!

    Hope someone can identify what I need to connect my new toilet pan to the vertical soil pipe in the bathroom floor. The old toilet's pan drained vertically into the soil pipe. I now need to fit a new toilet + pan connector, but the flange in the floor doesn't appear to be catered-for when it...
  2. Jonplumb

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  3. J

    Radiator valve with no flange?

    Hi. Very much a DIY’er but I’m installing a new radiator and just a bit concerned that when I’m screwing in the inlet valve to the radiator, the fitting that goes into the radiator thread has no sleeve to tighten it up to. As shown in the photo it would just keep screwing into the radiator, is...
  4. M

    Is this a Surrey Flange?

    I am having problems with what appears to be air in my shower pump. Sometimes it is really powerful, others is very poor. It is definitely effected when i turn the temperature up on the boiler. Obviously the thermostat on the tank should cut in and close the valve... but I am not totally...
  5. P

    Fitting a Surrey Flange on a hot water cylinder

    HI everyone I am having a problem removing a fitting from a Hercal Hot water cylinder. I ned to undo the fitting at the top to fit a surrey flange. It seems stuck fast. What is the best way to unscrew it? I am afraid of splitting the tank. I have tried " Crack it" spray which usually works in...
  6. P

    Fitting Essex Flange to HWC

    After reading various forums on the installation of an Essex Flange, and getting opinions from brilliant and easy to install, to don't touch one with a barge pole, I found this site and would like to know if I fit one, which is recommended with the new shower pump I need to install, should you...
  7. J

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  8. B

    Running twin impeller pump off indirect hot water without a surrey flange, bad idea?

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    • Bob Hill
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    • flange hot hot water impeller indirect pump running surrey water without
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    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  9. A

    ESSEX flange for a stainless steel cylinder?

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  10. G

    York & Surrey Flange Problem

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  11. gassafe

    Piped up wrong?

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  12. F

    Flange fitting problem!

    Hi there, have got a customer that wants a shower pump fitted so I need to put a flange in the top of the cylinder. The problem is that the only outlet on the cylinder (there isn't a side socondary return or anything) is at the top and is 3/4 male. Basically it's exactly the same as a 22...
  13. S

    Crusty Flange Nuts!

    Sounds painful I know. I'd like to remove a cylinder flange that's been in situ since flares were first in fashion. Any top tips on loosening the crusted hemp and paste connection? I daren't give it any more welly as the top of the cylinder looks keen to crumple! Adding a shower...
  14. M

    Surrey flange

    Evening chaps. How many shower pump supplies can you tee off a surrey flange? I am doing a bathroom, and need to put in a pump. There is a bathroom upstairs that is run with a negative head pump. So what I am asking is, can I get my supply for my new pump off of 5 his supply. Cheers fellers
  15. M

    Surrey flange?

    If I wanted to pump the hot water from a direct cylinder do I need to fit a Surrey flange or would the open vent mean its not necessary.
  16. E

    Central heating pump Grundfos 25/55 180

    can somebody tell me what the numbers mean ? is a 25/60 180 a suitable replacement?
  17. M

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  18. T

    Removing cast iron soil stack

    Hi, Has anybody ever removed only the bottom part of a cast iron soil stack and somehow supported the rest of the stack and left it in place, or is it only possible to remove the whole thing? It had originally been outside, but there has been a single storey extension built which the bottom...
  19. S

    "Surrey" flange or Essex flange?

    I'm fitting a negative head Salamander booster pump in a loft space. The manufacture said to fit ONLY AN ESSEX FLANGE! Can somebody explain why it must be an Essex flange and not a Surrey flange?
  20. S

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