In responce to UA22.
The Gruvlok ACM I believe would be proprietary. For those that may not know the ACM, basically it flares out the end of the pipe to IPS size and puts the groove in it at the same time. I am under the impression by doing this you can save money on couplings as it was cheaper to cast IPS size vs CTS. I believe I checked into this a few years back, and as an example a 2" IPS size coupling was roughly $8 and a 2" CTS was roughly $20 the larger it is the more it costs. With this in mind you work for a company that does $150m+/year you can imagine a large project using a thousand couplings could potentially save thousands of dollars.
Another bit of information ill throw out there, is the Gruvlok CTS couplings will work on a vic groove. The groove dimensions and tolerances on the pipe are the same. In a pinch I actually used a vic coupling on a gruvlok groove.
In responce to Gettinit
Dave is the contact that I have been dealing with on this issue. I do have a meeting set up with him, to talk over things for the future of my system. In the research I have done on this subject, plus in speaking with some major plumbing contractors. This is not a popular method, and pretty much no one handles service for this. I really needed to throw the questions out there to the fine professionals on this forum, to see if there was anyone out there that has experience with this, and if there were potential issues I could face in the future, aside from soon to be lack of support.
I definately would not have installed such a system. I really cant believe that out of all the approved joining methods that was in the project manuals this one was chosen. Im not the engineer or the contractor just the poor :jester: that has to deal with it.
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Posted on June 28,
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