About the Wheeler Rex 8100 Hot Tap, Wet Tap 3/4" & 1" NPT Hand Operated Drilling Machine
The 8100 Hot Tap NPT Thread from Wheeler Rex is a highly thought out well designed specialty tool for the piping professional. Allowing for tapping into a line while under pressure and add a line, drain the system or add a sensor. This ability is essential when the valve cannot be shut to stop the flow. The ingenious design of this tool allows for drilling into active water, air, gas and sewer lines up to 250PSI wither in a vertical, horizontal, or other pipe orientation. This powerful, cleverly designed manual ratcheting tool can cut holes from ¾ inch to 2 inches in diameter in the following kinds of pipe: copper, steel, cast iron, ductile iron, asbestos cement, C900, PVC, polyethylene and other types of plastic pipe by choosing the proper adapters for the valve and appropriate size cutters for the type of pipe depending upon its hardness.
The 8100 Hot Tap system from Wheeler Rex is designed to be very portable so it is light weight. The 8100 Hot Tap is intended for easy use by a single pipe professional, so one man can set it up, drill and tap a pipe with ease even in a cramped space. The 8100 Hot Tap comes with its own tool box for quick and easy storage for itself and its accessories. It comes complete with 6515 ratchet, tool box, adapters and cutter shells for making 3/4" (19mm) and 1" (25mm) holes; other adapters cutters and accessories available. It has a handy built in bleed-off valve which allows the chips generated by drilling the hole to be flushed cleanly away.
The 8100 Hot Tap NPT from Wheeler Rex also has Mueller Co. 110 corporation stop/valve adapters for ½ inch and 2 inches available.
