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The Medway Handyman

wrote:
Go to a real merchant and ask for a "green" olive.Substitute this
for the one in your 22mm fitting.Cost pennies.

By a real merchant, do you mean one that stocks tartan paint, sky
hooks & long weights?

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Dave - The Medway Handymanwww.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Ok,smarty,come back with the smart answers when you actually know
something about the subject.
A green olive is the industry standard way of joining 3/4" copper to
22mm with a 22mm fitting.Has been available since metric pipe first
appeared.
Is painted green so muppets like your self know what it is.

I'd assumed that you were winding me up. e.g. trying to get me to go to a
local plumbing shop & ask for a 'green olive' as in fruit.

The term 'green olive' may well be a regional term relevant to the area you
live in. A Google search for 'green olive' gives 1.5 million results, the
first 4 pages deal only with restaurants & recipies. No mention of a
plumbing application.

I was in my local plumbing merchants today, they supplied 2 suitable
olives - which were certainly not painted green at all. They are a goldy
colour distinctly different from other olives I have seen. I asked if these
were called 'green olives' and they clearly had no idea what I was on about.

It may be the 'industry standard' where you live. They may be called
'green' olives where you live. They may be painted green where you live.

None of which seems to apply in the south east of England. If you enter
'green olives' into the Screwfix search engine you get a page of safety
trainers.

If I misunderstood you and incorrectly assumed it was a wind up or a joke,
then I appologise.

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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk