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Fermented Tinal posted:Just replace the valve, it's simple and does not take a lot of time and the best way to do this repair barring tearing out all that copper and switching your house to pex. Bernzomatic even sells a soldering kit with flux, solder, and torch for like $30, the valve will be like $10 at the most, probably closer to $5. This basically. Was what I was advised when mine started leaking. GnarlyCharlie4u posted:You can try to replace the core and seals in the valve but honestly it's probably corroded and that's why it's leaking. meatpimp posted:If it comes to that, save time and money -- https://www.homedepot.com/p/SharkBite-Toilet-Installation-Kit-25088/206105373 I successfully used a Shark Bite on the one I'm talking about above. No issues thus far (a year or two.) The one I used had a captive braided steel line to the toilet, though. I don't play around with lines that are constantly under pressure. I know how to solder - had to fix my water main twice, so far, and got coached by kastein's videos. There's a few things to remember (make it CLEAN!) but it's not hard - but I didn't want to. Mainly due to how cramped that area is in my bathroom. Elviscat posted:Rhyno, don't bother trying to sweat a new valve on their, it can be tricky, and any water contamination will gently caress it up, just use one of these guys it installs in like a minute with tools you have, uses a little brass compression ring and nut to clamp on the copper, they work well, and if they go bad are super easy to replace. Got one of those in the other bathroom. Caveat: the copper needs to be straight and round. And probably clean, too. keykey posted:I used compression fittings on my own house back in 2003 and the bathroom pipes are still leak free, they were super easy to install. Slip the 2 parts over pipe, then the valve, screw on with 2 wrenches and done. In all honesty, the shark bit thing seems overpriced and unnecessary. Maybe, but it's impossible to overtighten a shark bite. You just shove it on. Only thing is to make sure you shove it on far enough (I mark the pipe beforehand. They're even pretty easily removable. That said, compression fittings work fine, and soldering isn't difficult - worth learning, but practice on scrap first.
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are we still talking about this? How is this not fixed yet? We posted sharkbite fittings like 2 hours ago. Rhyno what the gently caress are you doing with your life? You will spend more time standing in line to pay for the loving thing than you will installing it. Seriously though. They are a touch pricey, but goodgoddamn they are easy to use and so quick. They're always a good thing to have on hand, especially if some idiot sawsalls through the pipe and you can't be arsed to go find the shutoff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvl4n9obTsU&t=62s Darchangel posted:
keep in mind that your scrap piece will be pretty small and not have any water in it. The pipes in your house likely will especially if they're level. It can take a hilariously long amount of time to sweat a pipe that has even a little bit of water in it nearby. So just be prepared for that. GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Mar 2, 2019 |
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Mar 2, 2019 00:09
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InitialDave posted:Because there are hundreds of thousands of bigoted thickos desperately searching for a buttplug of confirmation bias to further stretch out their rectum of ignorant opinions. I like the way that is an adequate description (presumably - I don't know who he is, either) and gets across an opinion on quality at the same time.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:keep in mind that your scrap piece will be pretty small and not have any water in it. Oh, definitely. I had to re-do the first joint I did on the water main, because either I still had a little water in there, or, more likely, because the very bottom of the original pipe was still dirty. That's why I stressed the CLEAN! so much. Solder wicks around a clean copper joint like magic. It doesn't do that if it isn't pretty much shiny. In my defense, the water main was 18" in a hole in my yard, and it was cold (we found the leak when there was no snow in that spot) *and* it was my first rodeo. Second try involved an inspection mirror. The real bitch was that I ran out of propane on a Sunday evening after the home supply stores closed, and, of all things *Walmart* doesn't carry propane bottles. They have the solder, the torch heads, and everything else, but not the propane. I had just enough vintage SolidOx left to use MAPP gas and finish off the joint.
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Mar 2, 2019 00:31
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Rhyno broke the shitter again. Break out the hot sauce.
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Elviscat posted:You literally cannot seal a hose connection on the threads, because of the swivel joint in the back, also o-ring or gasketed seals are superior to threaded ones in nearly every instance. Damnit, how am I supposed to have any fun if I can't hide one bad piece of advice in an otherwise solid post?  I realized after taking the picture that the ptfe tape actually served no purpose and removed it. 
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Mar 2, 2019 03:36
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Suburban Dad posted:Yes. Ok, here's the rest. Performing his hit single "Be A Man" which is a sick diss track against Hulk Hogan       And the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMbcOC5dS5k
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I resolved the totaled WRX replacement project last week in a sensible and not at all midlife-crisis-esque manner, with a 2015 Challenger Scat Pack M6. PS: need gas money plz see my gofundme
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AnnoyBot posted:I resolved the totaled WRX replacement project last week in a sensible and not at all midlife-crisis-esque manner, with a 2015 Challenger Scat Pack M6. Congrats, buy less candles
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Went to sleep for 5 hours, woke up to a bone dry bucket. Also the flange replacement continues to not leak. Bathroom is almost functional!
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Rhyno posted:Went to sleep for 5 hours, woke up to a bone dry bucket. Also the flange replacement continues to not leak. Bathroom is almost functional! Just poo poo in the bucket next time, it's less hassle than plumbing Move in day is tomorrow, and we are all freaking out. The room isn't ready, she's not packed, it's too wet to just leave the dogs out tomorrow so we can move, poo poo easily, her family is sure we are going to kill her and has threatened me with the cops 3 times tonight. Hoo boy.
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Hey guys (GnarlyCharlie4u in particular), how bad are the EcoBoost F-150s? Stepdad's looking at a 2015 with the 2.7, 50k miles, CPO w/100k drivetrain warranty (via Ford). I've heard some horror stories about them, but thought they'd fixed most of the issues by 15. Rhyno posted:Thought I'd bounce this off you guys before I posted it in DIY Get a quarter turn valve. They make life so much easier when you have to turn poo poo off in the future to replace the fill valve.
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mewse posted:Congrats, buy less candles ...and the loving battery wouldn't crank it just now. gently caress. I'm tempted to get my money back from Carmax tomorrow, which is the last day to do that.
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I've got CCTV covering my garden at home and there was a murder/manslaughter attempt in my garden last night and my drat CCTV didn't record it... Unifi clearly make rubbish motion detection software  The crime scene:  This is where the recording of the perpetrator cuts off as 60 seconds of buttwiggle.gif isn't enough to trigger motion detection and the actual strike was clearly so fast that it also didn't get captured.  The lovely Unifi software records me 100 videos every day of the sun coming in and out behind clouds and moving the shadows, or bugs flying about but can't record the action that I really want to see
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Does anyone know of any good antique/used machinery shops around San Francisco or Los Angeles? I'm heading over there for a vacation this fall, and I want to pick up some small tools if I can find them. Stuff like tap holders, calipers and such. A good vice would be nice as well, but the overweight charges would probably be something else!
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afen posted:Does anyone know of any good antique/used machinery shops around San Francisco or Los Angeles? I'm heading over there for a vacation this fall, and I want to pick up some small tools if I can find them. Stuff like tap holders, calipers and such. A good vice would be nice as well, but the overweight charges would probably be something else! Need to ask Lobsterboy if he will give away secrets
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Mar 2, 2019 16:38
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everdave posted:Need to ask Lobsterboy if he will give away secrets How's your noggin these days edit: almost asked about your noodle, but that could also imply another part
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Mar 2, 2019 17:01
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Where the gently caress did spog go?
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A random person say at my table in the pub so I broke taboo and started small talk with them about the weather. Only after I spoke I realised he had headphones in so I frantically hand signalled it wasn't important. Such is life in United Kingdom
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Why would you have headphones in while in the pub?
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:Move in day is tomorrow, and we are all freaking out. The room isn't ready, she's not packed, it's too wet to just leave the dogs out tomorrow so we can move, poo poo easily, her family is sure we are going to kill her and has threatened me with the cops 3 times tonight. Hoo boy. I take it they're just not cool with the whole dynamic?
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freelop posted:A random person say at my table in the pub so I broke taboo and started small talk with them about the weather. Only after I spoke I realised he had headphones in so I frantically hand signalled it wasn't important. This is the most British post ever
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fridge corn posted:This is the most British post ever I see no mention of tea, crumpets or cricket.
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Mar 2, 2019 19:00
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Cricket is cool, so is tea. What is a crumpet tho
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Cricket is cool, so is tea. It's a fluffy squidgy bready breakfast thing Rhyno posted:I see no mention of tea, crumpets or cricket. You're obviously not British
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Applebees Appetizer posted:What is a crumpet tho It's when you cum in a trumpet crumpet
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fridge corn posted:
No but I watched lots of Faulty Towers and Are You Being Served so I'm something of an expert.
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Mar 2, 2019 19:24
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An expert would know it was Fawlty Towers
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Applebees Appetizer posted:
Crunk Trumpet.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Cricket is cool, so is tea. Inside-out English muffin
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getting awkward when you realize you've misread a social situation lol those wacky Brits, couldn't happen anywhere else
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Rhyno posted:No but I watched lots of Faulty Towers Apparently not.
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That's how we spell it in the colonies.
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Alright ladies and gentlemen, here is my followup to my offer from last month: We had 28 donors in total, and overall we raised something just shy of $1,700 US for some very deserving charities. I am absolutely blown away by your generosity, everyone, well done!
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I have a slight pain in my shoulder and elbow and I saw here worrying about a visit to the doctor for a good 5 minutes before I remember that I have really good insurance now. Despite 9 months at this job I still slip back into the mindset of "being sick will ruin ne" I had at my old job.
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Is there an ai discord?
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Applebees Appetizer posted:
Hayley Atwell
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I’m just slightly mind blown that you weirdos solder wear items like taps directly onto your water pipes... has the idea of a threaded socket not made it to the US yet? I don’t think I’ve EVER seen hard attached fittings in any Australian build. Sure, some of the nearly 100yr old places with galvanised pipes may as well be welded on now with rust but even they were threaded to start with!
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freelop posted:A random person say at my table in the pub so I broke taboo and started small talk with them about the weather. Only after I spoke I realised he had headphones in so I frantically hand signalled it wasn't important. Hopefully you sat there getting silently more and more infuriated that they were eating your packet of biscuits, only to realize later that your packet was underneath your folded copy of The Times' crossword puzzle.
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always be closing posted:Is there an ai discord? There are several accords 
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