Viega 95175 MegaPress tee Smart Connect technology 304 stainless steel, 2'' x 2'' x 1-1/2''

The MegaPress 95175 is a 2 inch x 2 inch x 1-1/2 inch tee: the run is 2 inch on both ends and the branch reduces to 1-1/2 inch. It saves you a separate reducer or bushing when you are dropping a 1-1/2 inch branch off a 2 inch main.

All three ports are press. The connection type is listed as P1 x P2 x P3, so the two 2 inch run ends and the 1-1/2 inch branch are all MegaPress press fittings crimped with a press tool and jaw matched to each size. There is no threaded or sweat end on this fitting.

It is 304 stainless steel, body and all three ports. That matters when you are choosing between MegaPress and MegaPressG style carbon fittings: stainless is the one you want where the line or the environment would rust a black steel fitting, and it keeps the fitting material from fighting a stainless pipe run.

MegaPress fittings press onto standard steel pipe, which is the whole reason contractors use them: no threading, no cutting oil, no hot work permit on an occupied building. The 95175 gives you a 2 inch run with a 1-1/2 inch branch, so a retrofit tap into an existing 2 inch steel line is a cut, a clean, a mark and three crimps.

Smart Connect is Viega's unpressed-connection feature. On a pressure test, a fitting that was left uncrimped lets liquid or gas pass at the sealing element instead of holding, so you find the missed joint during test rather than after the wall is closed. On a three-port tee like the 95175 that is three separate crimps to account for, which is exactly where one gets skipped.

Plan your pocket around 7.646 inches overall length, 5.157 inches wide and 2.894 inches high for the fitting body, then add clearance for the press jaw to swing on each of the three ports. The jaw, not the fitting, is usually what decides whether a tight chase or joist bay works.

Yes. The run ends are 2 inch and the branch is 1-1/2 inch, so you need jaws or rings sized for both. Crews that only carry a 2 inch jaw get two of the three joints done and stall on the branch.

Made in Germany, and the fitting weighs 2.373 lbs. Useful if you are pricing a pallet of them for a riser package or need country of origin for a government or institutional submittal.

Viega 95175. Quote that number when you are matching a submittal or reordering, since the MegaPress tee family runs across many size combinations and the stainless and carbon versions carry different numbers.