At 11:58 PM 3/6/01, you wrote:
>2001-03-06
>
>Recently while doing some spring cleaning around my office, I came across a
>technical data sheet from a company called Panel Components. You may visit
>their website at http://www.panelcomponents.com.
>
>Of interest was the catalogue on Strain Reliefs; Data Sheet 148, 4/1999.
>Note the following from page 2:
>
>NPT and PG thread types Compared
>
>Interpower(TM) strain reliefs are available in two different types of
>mounting threads: NPT and PG. NPT (National Pipe Thread) is the American
>standard. PG (Panzer Gewinde) is an European standard. PG threads are
>sometimes referred to as metric threading; however, these threads are not
>truly metric. There is a metric system of threading that is slowly
>replacing PG threads, but very few people have actually started using metric
>threads at this time.
>
>Seeing that this catalogue is two years old, I wonder how far this true
>metric thread series has advanced. Has anybody heard of it? If you have,
>please post it here.
>
>BTW, for those who don't know German, Panzer Gewinde means armoured thread.
>
>John
>
>Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrtümlich glaubt
>frei zu sein.
>
>There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they
>re free!
>
>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
See our page:
http://mdmetric.com/tech/thddat6.htm
which covers Pg threads
and our page:
http://mdmetric.com/tech/thddat10.htm
which covers the new Metric thread replacements.
Lee Sacks
from: Mr. Lee Sacks
MARYLAND METRICS P.O.B. 261 Owings Mills, MD 21117 USA
Ph: 800-638-1830 or 410-358-3130 fax: 800-872-9329 or 410-358-3142
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: <http://mdmetric.com>
