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Can anyone ( especially old timers) tell me where I can buy NPSM ( heck, maybe just NPS) caps and plugs?!?!
I can still hose ends and adapters - but not caps and plugs!
I thought I will not need those anymore, but first old Grove cherry picker crossed my pass, and now I started working on fishing boats hydraulic systems - and these things are everywhere!

I hate to stack bunch of NPT to NPSM adapters and plug and cap them!
 
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Best I can come up with from Cat are these part numbers for plastic. They don't seem to be available in steel.

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I'd imagine that NPT caps and plugs are available. Would chasing the threads with a NPS tap/die work?
 
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Thanks CMark for the chart.
Often just wanna use plastic for storage and never knew where to look. Anybody else have a similar listing for different suppliers?

Sorry not trying to HiJack the thread.
 
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gwoade said:
I'd imagine that NPT caps and plugs are available. Would chasing the threads with a NPS tap/die work?
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The thing is there’s male Npt pets with god chamfer on the face that mates with NPSM cone, and thread of NPTF is good enough for it, and that’s what I used yesterday to test the steering system on the boat yesterday. But my OCD personality rebels against this multilayered set up! And also it takes up a lot of space in the drawers of my service truck.
 
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DB2 said:
Thanks CMark for the chart.
Often just wanna use plastic for storage and never knew where to look. Anybody else have a similar listing for different suppliers.

Sorry not trying to HiJack the thread.
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New Line in Surrey BC has OKish sets of plastic caps and plugs, little too much NPT in them IMO, and ORFS you have to buy separate - but I use it. Don’t fall for yellow threaded plugs for BSPP/GAZ, GAS supposed to share a lot of sizes with DIN, but none of those will fit DIN.
There’s company called Capplug. But their minimum like 1000 pieces.
 
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DB2 said:
Thanks CMark for the chart.
Often just wanna use plastic for storage and never knew where to look. Anybody else have a similar listing for different suppliers?

Sorry not trying to HiJack the thread.
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Check out Cat kit # 276-7018 nice selection not bad price.
Bob
 
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