The result sticks

摘要

CONFIRMATION THAT adhesive-bonded joints for stainless steel 'pipework provide completely satisfactory long life connection has just been published by Lancashire Fittings after an extended trial. Following the trial that has lasted 20 years the company, a specialist manufacturer of stainless steel capillary fittings, has published the results of its findings relating to the use of adhesive-bonded joints. It was in 1981 that company chairman Dr Dick Wakelin initiated the trial following reports of poor performance from joints using the traditional copper capillary fittings on the-then relatively-new stainless steel thin-walled longitudinally-welded tubing. Whilst adhesive bonding appeared to offer the answer, long-term scientific evidence to back up the theory did not exist.