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Convert Compression Thread to NPT

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#1 · (Edited)
Sort of a plumbing question....although it's for an air compressor.

I am replacing my air compressor pump and will need to re-plumb. The tank check valve has a 1/2" (tube) compression fitting. I want to convert this to 1/2" NPT (female NPT ideal but I can make male work too).

Is there an adapter that will convert male compression threads (at the bottom of the image below) to NPT threads?
 

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#6 ·
You really need to plumb the compressor pump to the check valve with tubing and not solid with threaded pipe. This is often done using copper tubing for better heat transfer to help cool the compressed air but more importantly to offer some vibration dampening. The tubing is normally routed so it has a loop or a few oversized bends to allow some movement. Plumbed solid with threaded pipe the vibrations will likely crack the pipe at the threads or worse yet the compressor itself. You can easily find the correct compression fitting to either male or female pipe thread to screw into the compressor pump, then you will be able to connect the compression fitting in the pump to the compression fitting on the tank check valve with tubing.