a/c plastic pipe fittings

[Pascal]

I bet it was brass. Bronze would not have failed

[Angela]

We have a marine store here that caters to the bigger boats a little more and all of their nipples are labeled "bronze" on their shelf. I had one fail that could have sunk my boat, but I found it in time, or maybe it was Ed who found it. It had only been there about 3 months..

After a little investigation on my own, I discovered it was red brass. I brought it to the store management's attention, and they took the position that they can call red brass, bronze, interchangeably. NOPE! It's not the same.

[northshoreone]

My experience has been that even bronze will fail over time from the abrasion of salt water under constant water flow as we experience here in FL on AC systems. I have changed everything I can to schedule 80 PVC for just that reason.