...and therein lies the problem on a LOT of the valves I've worked on.
Some are right up against the block and I've had to chisel the block away to get enough room to get a new valve on.
That SUCKS!
two simple plumbing questions
- Thread starter diymirage
- Start date
-
...and therein lies the problem on a LOT of the valves I've worked on.
Some are right up against the block and I've had to chisel the block away to get enough room to get a new valve on.
That SUCKS!
Can't say for sure if they make a valve with the shark bite feature, if they do, they might be expensive..and it may be less to get a shark bite fitting that slips on the pipe and is threaded for a fitting on the other end and screw a valve onto that.
Look and compare prices.
Also, look to see if the removal tool is in the package, some have them some don't.
AJ/FormS
68 Formua-S fastback clone 367/A833/GVod/3.55s
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2014
- Messages
- 24,871
- Reaction score
- 12,218
Before we got electricity, my Grandma had a well under the kitchen with a manual pump at the top of a very long pipe. It worked like a charm; and it only had one important part; a piece of Grandpas old boot.
We didn't have that luxury, and I had to go to the well-house every evening. That was before 1960, crap I'm getting old. In about 62 we moved off the farmyard we shared with them, to the big city, and a house with flush a toilet. Hyup, yubet, and no more repurposed; old phone-books, newspapers,or paperbags.
What's the point AJ?
There ain't one, just remembering that in 1980 I moved my family to this hick village I live in, and no water, no sewer. The house had a cistern and holding tank, and the indoor plumbing needed a lot of work. I carried a lotta water, until I had ALL the plumbing replaced by yours truly. But in 1980, I was only 27 and 165 pounds. I was almost skinny enough to fit between the 2x8 floor joists in the dirt-floor crawlspace. Four years later I was pumping iron, and trying desperately to break thru the 175 pound barrier. Oh to be 174 again, alas, those days are gone. My kids are gonna have to spring for a coffin one day, extra-large, and 6 burly pallbearers.
We didn't have that luxury, and I had to go to the well-house every evening. That was before 1960, crap I'm getting old. In about 62 we moved off the farmyard we shared with them, to the big city, and a house with flush a toilet. Hyup, yubet, and no more repurposed; old phone-books, newspapers,or paperbags.
What's the point AJ?
There ain't one, just remembering that in 1980 I moved my family to this hick village I live in, and no water, no sewer. The house had a cistern and holding tank, and the indoor plumbing needed a lot of work. I carried a lotta water, until I had ALL the plumbing replaced by yours truly. But in 1980, I was only 27 and 165 pounds. I was almost skinny enough to fit between the 2x8 floor joists in the dirt-floor crawlspace. Four years later I was pumping iron, and trying desperately to break thru the 175 pound barrier. Oh to be 174 again, alas, those days are gone. My kids are gonna have to spring for a coffin one day, extra-large, and 6 burly pallbearers.
Last edited:
-
