Tap tails to 15mm copper

[muggins]

Good morning gentlemen. Tomorrow I'm replacing the kitchen mixer tap with a new Chinese one (Cooke & Lewis Amsel) which has 300mm flexy tails with female ends. Because these are longer than the existing rigid tails, I'll be needing new connectors for the 15mm copper feeds which I'll be shortening.

The only problem is that I'm currently a bit crocked up so will have to send The Wife to the plumbers' merchants. She'll have a much easier time of it there if she can ask for the exact item I want - but what is it? The female connector on the tails fits an ordinary 15mm compression coupler in the sense that the threads are the same, but surely I want a flat face for the washer in the tail connector to sit on rather than the chamfered end of that?

So the question is, gents - what's the part I need?

 

[Ben-gee]

‘ 1/2” male iron ‘ ( to 15mm compression). I image you’ll want the straight version. (They come in 90 degree too)

 

[Riley]

Plumbers merchant unlikely to be open on BH

 

[townfanjon]

14081 from toolstation maybe what you need , dont know if screwfix do them .

 

[RayW]

Is it not possible to use the existing rigid tails on the new tap? Rigid is better than flexi.

 

[Riley]

From the old tap?

 

[Ben-gee]

He said “tomorrow “, I think sending his better half to merchants on Tuesday morning.

 

[Burger]

Is it not possible to use the existing rigid tails on the new tap? Rigid is better than flexi.

Or purchase new ones?

Bristan copper tap tails M10 x 265mm (Pair) | Wolseley

 

[Brambles]

Just send with the tap and tails with her and ask for the fittings to 15mm copper.

You may get on better if she fits it too!

 

[muggins]

Thank you gentlemen. Yep, I could swop the existing copper tails over but the way I look at it, most new cheapish kitchen mixers seem to come with flexy tails nowadays and the shortest seem to be 300mm. But the existing tails are only about 200mm long, so it makes sense to me to shorten the feed pipes accordingly while I'm at it. OK it's a bit of a faff now, but next time I want to change the tap it'll be a doddle. Hopefully ...