Omniswivel High Flow QD O-Ring size

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HandsomeYoungPete

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Hey there knowledge base, I'm trying to work out the size of the o-rings in the omniswivel high flow QD female connector, the small one looks like an AS568 012 measuring CS 1.78 and ID 9.25, the larger one is also CS 1.78 but has an ID of 9.45 which doesn't come up on any chart I can find
 
The only standard O-ring that comes close to your measurements (1.78mm x 9.45mm) is a ISO3601-A0095 at 1.80mm x 9.50mm. The same O-ring can be found under the DIN3771 (9.5 x 18) or JISB2401 (1.80 x 9.50 - A & G) standard.

BS1806 O-rings are likely not it. The only ones "close" to your measurements are:
  • BS1806-611 = 1.78mm x 8.74mm
  • BS1806-012 = 1.78mm x 9.25mm
  • BS1806-905 = 1.83mm x 10.52mm
Neither of these seem a good fit. I'd suggest you do the measurements again, possibly with the below method. It generally yields great results:

1. Take a piece of plain paper and roll it into a cylinder. The cylinder should have a diameter very close to what you expect your inner diameter of the O-ring to be. Make sure that the ends of the paper cylinder slightly overlap.
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2. Take this paper cylinder and insert it into your O-ring, then unroll your paper cylinder until it sits nice and tight against your O-ring. Now make a small mark across where your paper cylinder overlaps with itself.
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3. All that is left to do is unroll your cylinder, measure the distance with a quality engineer’s ruler or calliper, and divide this length by π. This results in a great approximation for the inner diameter of the O-ring you have at hand.
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In the above example, we got to divide 78.94mm by π, which gives us 25.13mm. This is remarkably close to what this O-ring should be. It is a BS1806-022, which measures 25.12 mm across the inner diameter. The larger and softer the O-ring, the worse the results with this method usually become.

I find measuring O-ring diameters directly with a calliper all but impossible, except for really small ones. There is always some inherent stretch one introduces when fiddling around with the calliper.
 

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