Looking for help with pipefitting
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 1:30 pm
I have a bit of a dilemma and I have been asking around about solutions. I am hoping that perhaps there are a few pipefitters in here with the ability to assist me. I need to join two smaller diameter pipes to the side of a third larger diameter one. The pipes are on the center line of the larger one and fit in at different angles. I'm not a pipefitter, but normally this wouldnt be a problem for me to make the right cuts and just weld it up. The problem here is that the two pipes on the side join up very close to eachother. There will be interference between the two. I need to make cuts on the smaller pipes so that they properly mate with eachother as well as the large pipe. I have been looking around to find how to make the calculations for these cuts and have come up dry. I have attached an image for reference. The section in question is circled in red and the cuts I need to make are in blue. Thank you to anyone who has any advice. I appreciate it.