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   plumbbill | Feb 11, 2008 02:48am | #1

   What do you mean by "different"?

   That pic is of Uponor¯ FKA Wirsbo¯.

   There is a ring that is placed on the end of the tubing that provides the strength of their joining system.

    

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   popawheelie | Feb 11, 2008 03:11am | #2

   I guess my question was about how the joint works. I can't see how it would work. All the pex I've seen is just tubing.

   Edited 2/10/2008 7:12 pm ET by popawheelie

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   BillHartmann | Feb 11, 2008 03:30am | #5

   You expand the tubing and the insert a fitting and the tubing shrinks around it The band is to give it more "shrinking power".It is really part of the fitting and not the tubing. Kinda strange the way tht they show it..
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   A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.

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   plumbbill | Feb 11, 2008 03:36am | #6

   Uponor pex has a 100% memory.

   After you cut the tubing to length you slide on that ring, which is made of pex also.

   You then insert the expansion TOOL after you expand the tube & ring, remove the tool & place barbed fitting into the tube.

   Since the pex tube & ring have a 100% memory they contract back to their original size sealing itself to the barbed fitting.

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   Sphere | Feb 11, 2008 03:28am | #3

   Here I thought it just hadn't been circumscribed..(G)Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

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   plumbbill | Feb 11, 2008 03:30am | #4

   SNORK

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