Reduced rubber expansion joints are very special rubber connectors. There are two types of reduced rubber expansion joints, concentric reducer rubber joints and eccentric reducer rubber joints. The installation of rubber joint are mostly all the same, here below is some explain of the similarities and differences of the two joints.
Similarities: both work for different diameter pipes connection, compensate for tilting pipes, reduce vibration and noise. In addition, same material, same connection method, commonly by flanges.
Differences: allowable pipe position deviations are different. Concentric reducer rubber joints are used to connetc two balanced but differet sizes pipes, and eccentric reducer rubber joints are suitable for offset pipes connection. So eccentric reducer rubber joints are much more popular than concentric rubber joints, having wider application range.
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