Originally Posted by
5khours
Good point.... actually not. I'm just impressed at how much time and effort Japanese faucet manufacturers must have made in the 50's and 60's to protect themselves from foreign competition.
Actually JIS standard pipe-thread etc. are pretty much standard across Asia, parts of the Middle East, India, Africa. I've also come across JIS pipe threads with DIN flanges , JIS flanges with NPT threads you name it. You could go to a home centre and pick up what ever you need .