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Pneumatic pipe plugs are most often used for blocking, bypassing, conducting line acceptance or leak-location testing using air.
In 1953, while working on an institutional job, Lloyd Cherne vulcanized a tire’s Schrader valve to a child’s inflatable rubber ball to create the first-ever pneumatic plumber’s test plug.
Since then, the use of both pneumatic and mechanical pipe plugs has expanded for...
