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Bronze plumbing fittings source.

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Quetzalsailor
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Boat Name: Quetzal
Boat Type: LeComte North East 38
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Bronze plumbing fittings source.

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Some of you may have been flummoxed by West Marine, and everybody else, who sell a very limited line of bronze fittings to go along with bronze seacocks and hose barbs. I have just had good, instantaneous, and cheaper than marine success with: "Fittings and More", http://www.fittingsandmore.com/index.php Midland Metals is a manufacturer and wholesaler who cannot sell to you. " Fittings and More" looks like Midlands' catalog pages.

Amazing to me that West sells brass fittings on the same page as their bronze seacocks and then tells you in plain English, in a "West Advisor" to not buy any.
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Quetzalsailor
Master of the Arcane
Posts: 1100
Joined: Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:53 am
Boat Name: Quetzal
Boat Type: LeComte North East 38
Location: Philadelphia, PA

Post by Quetzalsailor »

Turns out that this stuff is made in China. Something new to worry about! We routinely close all the seacocks when we leave the boat for the intervening week, so not a huge worry.
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