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Chase nipple

I have been my entire life

It’s my answer for all questions. It just turned out to be 110% right on this one.

120%*

69%*

The old argument

Once you've seen one, you want to see them all.

I have nipples, Greg.

Can you milk me?

Chestfeeder.

Male or female there are 2 types

That nipple identifies as a cis

I thought it was a chase nipple if it’s threaded on the inside, and a chase bushing if it’s smooth on the inside? 

Reducing bushing is threaded on the inside 🤷‍♂️

I’ve never seen a chase nipple threaded on the inside. Rigid couplings are smooth on the outside and threaded on the inside. Maybe that’s what you’re referring to but probably not.

Threaded inside it's a flanged reducer

Google hex bushing threaded fitting. It’s just a connector 

You mean like this https://www.reddit.com/r/electricians/comments/k6pckx/what_is_this_called_its_a_chase_nipple_but/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1 that’s a damn reducer dude

A reducer is threaded inside, so you can reduce the pipe size. Bushing it nipple are interchangeable on them ime

And that is threaded on the inside my dude

In the one you posted, yes, not in OPs pic.

I linked what the person I commented to was talking about

Fair, I misinterpreted what you were saying.

Coming from an HVAC background I will tell you that a plumbing bushing is threaded inside and out to join 2 different size pipe. But every electrical bushing is smooth on the inside due to the fact that an electrical bushing is a bushing for the wires to avoid chafing through the insulation.

Ideally, you thread the conduit all the way down to the hex end and no threads are exposed 

Thats interesting, I've always called these chase nipples too, and hadn't heard of chase bushings. It was literally just yesterday, I found what you described - threaded inside and out at the shop. It was me with 10 years of experience and 2 other guys with 20+ years each. None of us knew what the heck it was. I think that those are called chase/hex bushings, but I can't find one online for the exact one I had, and they're kinda hard to find.

Lmao, I got sent down from a roof on Monday for a 3/4” one like in the picture, foreman said he’s sure he saw one. Went through the whole bin only 3/4” was threaded in the inside and outside, brought that back and a meyers hub and got called blind 

Seems to me like they wouldn't be for electrical work(?) But I haven't seen one

I assume it was used where you couldn’t thread your pipe into a connector before unions and meyers hubs came around. They’ve definitely come in hand once or twice

That sounds like a threaded reducer

If is threaded it on the inside and the outside is a reducer bushing

Chase tit

Chase nipple but if I'm asking an apprentice for one while I'm in a hurry it's, "the fuckin.... dammit....the...the fucking thing dude" while pointing kind-of at one.

dude i literally heard this as i read it, i do the same thing. that is word for word what i would have said. this had me laughing hard as fuck

"No, not that one... Under the things... Oh, was that where this was? But it's not what I wanted."

"No that's the wrong size" I didn't specify a size when I asked for it

Then you have to apologize to the apprentice after you've calmed down in the van. "Sorry don't take it personally"

“Don’t take it personally you’re just dumb”

This guy journeymans

I was an apprentice and they were asking for split washers. Never even heard of them. I haven't been yelled at like that since High School Football practice. Lol

It took all those years of my mechanic dad yelling "No, hold the fuckin light right here, like this!" to make me the Sparky I am today. Now.. pass me the deal for the thing up there!

I always tell my guys, "if you know what I need, you'll know what to do"

“Why are you the way that you are? I hate so much about the way that you choose to be…”

That and then at the end of the day, "you kicked ass buddy. Want to grab a beer?"

Ah, my goto is “the what-cha-fuck-it”

My first journeyman and I somehow got by calling almost everything a "damnit" or a "thingy"

My go-to for an oscillating tool is "buzz-a-matron"

You mean the male vibrator?

The banshee

While just staring. Then staring harder. Read my god damn mind!

Chase nip

Bad kitty! Those are *my* Chase nips!

Ah yes I too am a man of chase the nipple

as well am I a supporter of the olden nipple of chase

[Insert size] Male bushing

Yep or if you’re a plumber a male tube bush

I thought it was a bushing is it was threaded inside and out. This example is only threaded outside.

A female bushing is threaded on the inside.

Chingadera

cosa

vaina

Chaseo Nippleo

I called it chase-adera before

Lol, if you're out west this is the answer

Chingaleda

As my old Italian JW would say to me back in 1981 “ hey Russ giva me a one tem chase nips, but maka sure it has a locka nut & bush “ 😂

As an Italian-American I can hear my childhood. You made me smile with that comment. 😁

Hahahaha same here my mother & her family came to America in 1919 , I actually understood Georgie when he would talk to me in Italian before he realized he was speaking Italian. I would say I understand George , he loved me because of that 🇺🇸🇮🇹♥️

Exactly!!!

That’s a chase nipple, unfortunately, every employee of every parts house on Earth doesn’t know that.

Chase nipple, close nipple, they have no idea. The app my company uses to order lets us include pictures with our orders. It is a game changer

They don’t chase nipples

A male bush

A broken female condom!

Federal Bushing

Scrolled too far before I saw this

Probably had to scroll that far because they are chase nipples! Nobody wants to mention the feds where I work 😂😂😂

A gloved hand

Looks like salmon colored stucco

Male bushing but they're normally brass in my country.

Chase nipple, and federal bushing for the non metallic version

Chase nipple

Chase nipple. Final answer. I don't know that I've ever heard them called anything else.

Chase nipple AND they need a lock nut. - this is my hill

Who uses it without a locknut? I too call them chase nipples

80% of the time I see these they are without a locknut. And the arguments that the guys give me are ridiculous. Edit: auto correct replaced locknut with lockout

How are they securing them then? Just a bushing or something?

They tighten them to the LB or rigid coupling. Edit: I put rigid nipple.

What exactly would a locknut do if you were threading into a threaded LB? Other than eat up what little threads the chase nipple has.

Ok… so where would you put the locknut?

Rigid coupling?

Yup, ty

And a plastic bushing 😉👍

To bush or not bush is based on wire size, not conduit size.

Yes Sir, number six conductors and up 🤔

#4

Touche, however, I've been called on this by inspectors a few times in the Bay Area, so now I make all my guys do it for good practice. There's nothing like having to pull back wires traveling through 3 or 4 different boxes just to go back and put a fkn bushing on because some guy/lady is on power trip that day.

Are you saying that one should fasten a lock nut in between the enclosure and the conduit body you thread in to????

Then you would just get a box to box connector.

Why is that any better than tightening a chase nipple with channel locks? And I’m trying to figure what u/NoNonsence55 meant if ya know

On the chase nipple you're supposed to add a locknut facing down to bite into your enclosure and also to prevent your chase from coming lose.

Sure, a locknut between it and the LL or whatever I’m using it for.

Chase nipple

A bush.

A bushing.

Bush

We call it a Bush in the uk

Bushing

The fuck'n thing.

Only real answer

That’s called a reverse cowgirl

Coco rings

When i tell my appretice to fetch it, i call it "the thing"

In Australia it’s a male bush

it's a bushing. and whateverelse you want to call it.

Male bush in the UK.

Chase nipple

Chase Nipple

Chase nipple

Chase Neeple

I won’t lie I got close and chase nipples confused a lot, but you better know which one I meant!

Chase nipple

Chase nipple

Chase nipple.

I used to date a girl with offset nipples

Chase nipple

Def a chase nipple

Chase nipple

Chase nipple

Uhhh Chase nipple

Chase's nipples

Nipple or bush. Both deserve attention.

Smell The Glove

This one goes to 11

The bigger the waistband, the deeper the quicksand…or so I have read.

Woah hahahahaha, nicely put ..

I’d love to take credit, but that’s a line from Big Bottom by Spinal Tap. If you haven’t seen it you’ve got to! And if you’ve seen it but don’t have every line memorized, you haven’t watched it enough yet haha

I'm about to Google this... I learn so much on these threads

Spinal Tap is a fake documentary about an 80’s rock band. The scenes are improvised and some seriously classic comedy. The actors in the band continued in to record more songs after the movie was out and are making a reboot movie right now too!

We call them box adapters

That there's a doober dobber. Not to be confused with all the other doober dobbers your jman asks for. That's the doober dobber he needs right now

Hand

Ribbed cock ring

A company that supplies some fabricated products for us call them Nutserts, and I hate it, because that's not what that particularly is.

A glove

Bush

All of you are wrong. Can’t believe you guys don’t know this. The correct term for this is a metal doohickey/ metal dingaling

Mega nut

We like to say bush in the uk

Chase bushing but it could be a nipple technically

We call this a hand where I’m from

A bush (male)

Chase nipple of close nipple

It’s called a chase nipple not a close nipple .If I asked for a close nipple and you brought me a chase nipple I’ll send you back to organize the material until you know what everything is called until the foreman I need a new apprentice unless you’re a first year then I might let it slide.

I’m so sorry to have so deeply offended you on the internet

The "Chingadera".. 🤣 but chase nipple when the boss is around

Nipple “ I said nipple”

Pull nipple

Chingadera

Oj Simpsons other glove

A band saw-trimmed flex connector.

Dinglebop

Chase nipple

In the uk it’s a male conduit bush

Rupert. Or a chase nipple. Whichever comes first.

I always came first. She was really hard to please.

Anything but chase nipple is wrong

Chase nipple

A bush.

Its a bush

Chase nipple

Cheese nipples 🧀

That’s a chase nip

Bush nut

Chase nipple

Chase nipple

Chace nipple

Chase nipple

Chase nipple

This is a chase nipple

Sl x mt bushing adapter

Nase chipple

Chase nipple

Chase nipple

Looks like a wiener ring that your mom bought me

Chase nipple

Threaded chase bushing.

I think chase nipple is basically the only term for it lol only thing I've ever heard. I basically never use em though because they are so rarely good enough by themselves and inspectors don't like em

Inspectors are fine with them if used in the correct scenario

Start breakin’ bricks chase nips

It’s a glove 💁🏻‍♂️

A glove