Smith S-54 Tapping Machine
Smith S-54 Tapping Machine
In 1896, A.P. Smith tapping machines for use with pressurized fluid and gas service lines. The S-54 tapping machine can be used with tapping sleeves and saddles, hat flanges and tapping valves to make connections 2" to 16" inclusive under pressure to ductile iron, gray iron, cement-asbestos, steel-reinforced concrete and other types of pipes, tanks or pressure vessels.
The Mueller® CL-12 drilling machine is considered a current equivalent to the S-54 tapping machine.