The saga continues on the chimney install. We got a few of the SS Selkirk pipes to lock together perfectly but now we’re having a heck of a time trying to get the rest of the SS pipes to lock together, they just keep wanting to spin and when you wiggle them they come apart. We did get the pipe from two different places but all pipes are Selkirk Sure Temp same model number. I know there are locking bands that need to used as well. Is there some kind of trick to it to getting them to lock together? How imperative is it that the pipes lock together as long as the locking band is installed?
Selkirk SS Chimney Pipe Won’t Lock Together
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Dieselhead
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I’d be on the phone with Selkirk tech support first thing in the am to get official information.
But I’d guess some of the flanges got dinged up on the male end in transit and they are skipping over each other not locking into each other.
But I’d guess some of the flanges got dinged up on the male end in transit and they are skipping over each other not locking into each other.
I called Selkirk and they had never heard of this happening on SureTemp pipes. They told us to return them. The folks at the hardware store had never heard of it happening before either. We showed them how they didn’t lock together and they were baffled. We did end up getting pipes that fit together correctly. It’s just so odd that we had that trouble with three pipes. Guess we were the first to encounter this.
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