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EMS GAS METERING SPANNER SET
By Sam White, Technical Manager at Energy Metering product has been designed - to my
Solutions and YPPC 2019 finalist knowledge - specifically for this
application.
WHEN I FIRST JOINED EMS in these kinds of works, and unsatisfied As well as the three sizes of meter
November 2016 and began installing with other options available on the connection, 1in, 1¼in and 2in, there are
gas meters, I encountered several market, I began creating a spanner also a number of adaptors of different
situations that led to a search for more set specifically designed to fit the sizes within the BS746 spec and relating
suitable tooling for the installation and brass fittings used on domestic and to BSP pipe thread to BS746.
maintenance of diaphragm gas meters commercial gas meters, regulators and I identified 14 different sizes across
with threaded connections. flexible connections (spec BS746:2014). flat dimensions that would be necessary
Having identified the issues with Despite the first version of BS746 to complete the set and allow it to be
the conventional tooling often used for being issued in 1937, no other used on all available fittings.
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