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Permalink Reply by SaFire* on April 16, 2009 at 2:02pm

Lowe's has some half inch that I think will fit the grey plastic couplings.

Although Pex tubing is also labeled 1/2 inch it's a bit smaller then the PVC tubing. I think this has to do with one being measured as half inch from the outside of the tubing and the other being measured from the inside.

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Permalink Reply by lula houp-garou on April 20, 2009 at 5:14pm

haha, yep. i nearly tore my hair out trying to find connectors for pex tubing until someone clued me into that little quirk. i don't know what the 1/2 inch tubing takes, but 3/4" pex tubing needs a 5/8" connector.

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Permalink Reply by Mad Maxine on April 20, 2009 at 9:11pm

good to know this also. I've got some strange white, translucent tubing I scored from a job site, but I can't find connectors for it.

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Permalink Reply by spider baby on April 21, 2009 at 10:06am

probably pex pipe...lucky you..
i can only seem to find black lined pex here in canada at this time.

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Permalink Reply by j jones on April 17, 2009 at 1:21am

I actually just got a spool of 1/2" from lowes and I LOVE it .... i'm gunna be hooping either @ cal anderson park or greenlake tomorrow if you want to try out the hoop i just made with 1/2" pipe from lowesssssss! :)

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Permalink Reply by Mad Maxine on April 17, 2009 at 8:06am

Thanks!
So, it's half inch black tubing? Please confirm, because I'll have to go grab a roll today or tomorrow.

FYI, (and I'll post this on the board), there's a Seattle Tech Spinners gathering tomorrow at
Oddfellow's Hall (Century Ballroom) across from Cal Anderson park. The fee is $1 to $2. It's really nice in there when the weather sucks. Very nice bunch of people.
http://groups.google.com/group/seattle-tech-spinners/browse_thread/...

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Permalink Reply by Hayley Albright on April 17, 2009 at 8:42am

I always get all my supplies from Home Depot, they always have a good selection of sized tubing. Their connectors really don't bother me, what don't you like about them?

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Permalink Reply by Mad Maxine on April 17, 2009 at 12:22pm

the barbs are too wussy. Keep in mind, I make twist-to-collapse hoops with my connectors, so they have to be beefy. There are connectors out there with bigger barbs, which I get at another local hardware shop (that, strangely, doesn't even carry the piping).

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Permalink Reply by Sassy-Hooper on April 17, 2009 at 11:40am

Lowes is the best place I have found and good prices too! What I really like is they bundle 10 connectors in a bag and make it cheaper, also the connectors they stock don't have that stupid side hole that sticks out. Before I found Lowes I was using a huge metal file to get those suckers off, now life is good with my super smooth 3/4 connectors and I always know they will have a full stock of 160 psi / 100 psi rolls and color electrical tape!!
There is nothing better than going in and picking up a huge roll of pipe and throw it over my back and watch the men stop and stare and the chick with psi pipe!!! LOL good times.

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Permalink Reply by Tangled Macrame on April 21, 2009 at 7:27pm

Lowes, no way! I called our local Lowes and asked about tubing and they told me they didn't carry it. Grrr. That's what I get for trusting some voice over the telephone.

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Permalink Reply by Mad Maxine on April 21, 2009 at 11:46pm

I've had good luck again today. Be sure to ask for irrigation "pipe." Tubing, apparently, has squishy walls, pipe has hard walls. If they're searching a database while you're on the phone, they may not be locating it under tubing. Or you got a moron on the phone. Or your local Lowes sucks. I'd go in person and raid their plumbing department.

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Permalink Reply by Mad Maxine on April 17, 2009 at 9:56pm

SCORE! Boy, that makes for a floppy but light hoop. I bet I could go smaller and still be able to do my array of tricks. WOOTY WOOT TOOOT!

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