What will finally happen to the copper fittings piled in a box beneath a silver soup tureen on a basement shelf remains a mystery, even to me.

Originally a sailors' boarding house, it was a labyrinth of 28 rooms, decayed pipes and wiring, and an old furnace stripped of copper fittings by crack addicts.

He'd even sent for special copper fittings and a solid brass wheel for the helm.

His foundry manufactured bolts and copper fittings for the Constitution ("Old Ironsides").

When an oxidizer line burst, HTP sprayed onto the copper fittings inside the torpedo, decomposing into oxygen and steam.

These included "spark free" copper fittings, rope shoes and the obvious measure of lighting magazines through plate glass fronted passages or niches.

While I was at it, I grabbed a polishing cloth to clean all the copper fittings up a bit.

The visitor is struck by the scrupulous cleanliness observed, as well as the copper fittings which are all carefully tinned to preserve the liquor from contamination.

Crimped or pressed connections use special copper fittings which are permanently attached to rigid copper tubing with a powered crimper.

Each is of iron-banded black-varnished wood, with copper fittings, and an ornate lock of fiendish complexity (CR 50%).