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you need to figure out how much water per minute you need and get the minimum pipe diameter that will give you that. the bigger they are the more expensive they are, on a logaritmic scale.

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What is the diameter of a pipe?

The diameter of a pipe is its width across an open end of the pipe. The inside diameter is the width measuring on the inside of the pipe; the outside diameter is the width measuring on the outside.______________________________________________________________________________________________________For a pipe of circular cross section, its nominal diameter is the diameter of the cross section.The inner diameter is the measuring on the inside of the pipeThe outside diameter is the measuring on the outside of the pipe.


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On a irrigation system how would you remove a 1.5 inch nipple broken off at a valve?

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