Not All Brass P Traps Are Created Equal!

okay so these two brass tubular p traps they look the same but i'm going to show you today one's code one's not one's thicker one's not thicker is better hey folks that fix it guy here and today we're going to be doing a comparison video on brass tubular peach wraps all right these things are not the same they might look similar but they're not so come along let's get to comparing okay so here we go if you grab one of these right away there's always going to be one difference the one you're looking for is actually going to be the one that has the stamp on it that actually says upc 17 gauge all right this is a much thicker heavier brass p trap like you can literally feel the difference in this right here this one just weighs a lot more than this and it is a lot better quality this one right here actually code compliant this one right here is not they do look the same just this one is actually missing that stamp right there okay that and i can tell you the sound difference much thinner all right but let me just show you i'm going to pull out some calipers we'll pull out a scale check it out okay so let's start with the non-code one right this is the 22 gauge brass that's four ounces then let's put the 17 gauge on here it's thicker so of course this could be a little bit heavier but i just wanted to show you seven and a half all right so almost double awesome and so for my next we're going to be looking at okay my next test we're gonna actually grab the j tubes and we're gonna be doing a test on how thick this actually is okay and so for that we're just going to grab some calipers here these are our midi you toe mit i can't even say that mitutoyo all right one of my friends loaned these to me this is a dial caliper and this actually measures in thousands of an inch all right we'll end up doing more with calipers as i learn more about calipers right i've never had to really use calipers in my life but i was telling him that i was going to be doing this video and stuff he's like oh you want to borrow some calipers so it's good it's a good way to do some serious precision measuring okay so first off this is the 22 gauge this is a little skinny bunny so if we get right here you're looking at about 21. all right and then if we go right here we're looking at about 48 thousandths of an inch on the 17 gauge stainless all right so once again i mean it weighs more it's almost double that it is more than double the thickness and so pretty cool like really the weight the thickness everything makes for a much better p-trap that's gonna last you a long time okay folks so if you're at the store you don't know what to do you're freaked out by the sticker shock because man these bad boys are expensive still go with the better one all right go with the better quality this is going to be the 17 gauge brass this is gonna have this little uh symbol on at this upc symbol and it's gonna be code approved this is what you want spin the cache it's gonna last you a lot longer and it's correct i really hope you guys enjoyed the video if you could please subscribe to the channel click the like button we would greatly appreciate it we're just trying to help we hope we're doing that thank you very much and we'll see you again real soon [Music] so much of a difference