Hollow Plug

Materials Used

Assembly of Hollow Plug

The hollow plug is a key component to in pipe fitting assembly, as the plug body provides the seal in the access fitting. A hollow plug is a valve used to restrict or isolate the flow of a liquid or gas through a pipe. There are both right-handed and left-handed threads in such plugs. This arrangement of right- and left-handed threads ensures that the functional parts of the pipe cannot become unscrewed during the extraction process.


Materials used:
Materials used in the making of hollow plugs are as follows:

• Brass
• Aluminum
• Copper
• Plastic
• Bronze
• Stainless steel
• Cast iron etc.

Hollow plug assembly:
Hollow Plug consists of:

• Pipe Plug
• Hollow Plug Body
• Primary Packing
• Hollow Plug Packing Retaining Nut
• Probe Packing
• Hollow Plug Seal Nut

How to measure hollow plugs?
To get the accurate measurements of hollow plugs, the measurements of pipe size, O-ring uniform size and dimensions are to be known. As seen in the figure, the pipe size is denoted by P while the dimensions are denoted by B, C, L ,A/F.