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Hose, Pipe or Tube
Posted: 13 Jun 2013, 11:28
by Titus A Duxass
Hi volks,
We use some 6mm OD (4 mm ID) PTFE hose/pipe/Tube/Tubing on a piece of kit here.
What is the correct engineering / parts catalogue term - Hose, Pipe, Tube or Tubing?
Cheers
Titus (losing my English) d'Uxass
Re: Hose, Pipe or Tube
Posted: 13 Jun 2013, 12:21
by kevtherev
tubing IMHO
Re: Hose, Pipe or Tube
Posted: 13 Jun 2013, 12:23
by Titus A Duxass
Leaning that way myself Kev.
Re: Hose, Pipe or Tube
Posted: 13 Jun 2013, 12:28
by kevtherev
http://www.polyflon.co.uk/ptfe_tubing.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Some sites do the safe thing and put
tube to catch punters on google
Re: Hose, Pipe or Tube
Posted: 13 Jun 2013, 12:59
by Titus A Duxass
Officially I am not allowed to use the progressive form (...ing) for verbs but I cannot find a rule for nouns.
Re: Hose, Pipe or Tube
Posted: 13 Jun 2013, 13:54
by ghost123uk
Re: Hose, Pipe or Tube
Posted: 13 Jun 2013, 14:08
by Titus A Duxass
ghost123uk wrote:
Officially I should not ever put a comma before the word "and". I often do though

That's a hanging offence!!
Re: Hose, Pipe or Tube
Posted: 13 Jun 2013, 18:34
by Dazco
Gotta be tube