Max verbrated: I've been soldering with led solder in electronics all my life, so far, and there is nothing wrong with me. nothing wrong with me. nothing wrong with me.
Hey Max, Me neither eeeeek! Me neither eeeeek! Me neither eeeeek! Contact me at: Donnie Parrett 1956 Asa Flat Road Annville, KY 40402 Home # 606-364-3321 Cell # 606-438-2557 Church # 606-364-PRAY Skype Name: Donnie1261 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Max Robinson Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:50 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] I hate plumbing! I wonder if some of these chemicals aren't more toxic than led. It may be they just haven't discovered it yet. I've have been soldering with led solder in electronics all my life, so far, and there is nothing wrong with me. nothing wrong with me. nothing wrong with me. Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 5:46 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] I hate plumbing! > Actually I haven't used this stuff yet but I figured since I recommended > it, I better order some. I ordered the special they have on their web > page and I'll let you know how it works. I have used the Cyanoacrylate > epoxy on copper before in a pinch and the joints are still holding water > tight. > > For those that haven't heard of Cyanoacrylate before, there are several > different types available. Basically it is the industrial version of > Crazy Glue or Super Glue. It works anearobically or in the absence of > oxygen. I bought some under the name of Royal Onyx to make emergency > repairs to golf clubs and I mean that stuff works fast! You spread it > around and when you slide the shaft into the club head it sets to where > you can't twist any more in about 30 seconds. Royal Onyx doesn't > advertise plumbing repairs, but it gives a working range of temperatures > and if it can stand the force of hitting a very hard golf ball without > coming apart I think the relatively low pressure of water is a small test. > > I'll let you know probably next week how this stuff works since it has to > be shipped and this weekend is another trip to finish up the house in > South Carolina. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Edward Przybylek > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:01 AM > Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] I hate plumbing! > > > Hi Bob, > > The solderless compound sounds very interesting. The web page makes it > sound very useful for those of us who have had very little success with > solder. Have you ever used it? How were the results? Thanks. > > Take care, > Ed > > > _____ > > From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Bob Kennedy > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 6:57 PM > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] I hate plumbing! > > Always the odd ball, I like plumbing. It has gotten a bit harder to > solder > since they have done away with led in the solder but I can still sweat a > pipe together. > > For those that don't like risking a fire in the house, they now make a > solderless compound for copper pipes. It is much like the C A form of > epoxy > I use to build golf clubs with. It comes in a can and you brush it on > like > the stuff used with PVC. Great idea for places where a torch is > dangerous. > I'll find the link and send it along later. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Ferrin > To: blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 1:45 PM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] I hate plumbing! > > The question is who if anybody likes plumbing actually. Oh the joys of > owning a home. > David Ferrin > www.jaws-users.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Rossi > To: BlindHandyman@ <mailto:BlindHandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 1:39 PM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] I hate plumbing! > > This weekend was spent in battle with the pipes. The war was waged on two > fronts, the kitchen faucet, and an unused toilet in the basement. > > the faucet had the upper hand for a while, but it now lays in many pieces > at the bottom of my trash. Score one for the blind guy! > > This was an old faucet with three separate mountings, one each for the > two > taps, and one for the faucet itself. I spent a lot of time under the sink > with the mother of all basin wrenches trying to get the nuts off the taps > to no avail. I tried taking them out from above, but there was no way to > grab onto the little collars, which also happened to be puttied to the > sink surface. Much to Teresa's dismay, I, screaming that I would exact my > vengeance on the faucet, ran to the basement and retrieved my Dremel. > Several broken cutting disks later, after much prying, cursing and > snarling, the taps and faucet were removed from the sink and the sink > surface was not marred from the Dremel. > > Of course, after I slid the new faucet in place, the flex tubes attached > to the faucet were not long enough to reach the shut-offs under the sink. > That meant, not surprisingly, another trip to the store, but that had to > wait until Sunday. > > Sunday morning I took a closer look at the toilet in the basement. This > is a cruddy old toilet stuck in the corner of the basement with a plywood > wall on none side and a partial plywood door. These are very common in > Pittsburgh. The guts of the tank were completely rusted and broken and > since the shut-off to the toilet didn't actually shut the water off, > there > had been a paint can wedged into the tank to keep the fill valve closed. > I had upgraded the paint can to a 20 pound dumbell but figured I should > probably fix the shut-off and take care of the tank guts while I was at > it. > > Off to the store. We found some flexible tubes to extend the faucet lines > and I installed them as soon as we got home. Had a lot of trouble getting > the sprayer attachment threaded onto the under-side of the faucet, but > Teresa eventually got her hands in there and got it tightened down. New > faucet, with a single handle, works fine, of course, the brand new, $108 > faucet has an itty bitty drip. > > Back down to the basement to lead the attack on the toilet. > > Turns out that the water connection to the tank was pretty clugy. Check > this out, step by step: > > Long Copper pipe literally hangs down from the ceiling joists, > threaded fitting sweated onto end of Copper pipe, > shut-off screwed onto fitting, > short, threaded, black iron pipe screwed into shut-off, > elbow screwed into black iron, > horizontal copper sweated into elbow, > elbow sweated into other end of horizontal Copper, > Some kind of fitting, possibly compression, bodged onto elbow, > finally into tank. > > I managed to get the shut-off replaced with a ball valve without too much > trouble. I managed to get the guts of the tank changed with a lot of > work, having to cut and tare out some of the old parts. I could not get > the funky assembly described above to go back into the new tank > connection > without leaking rather impressively. So, we are at a draw at the moment, > but I intend on replacing most of that assembly with a flexible hose. > > Nearly panicked when in an attempt to identify what branch of my house > plumbing has a slow leak, I turned off a shut-off and it proceeded to > gush > water like a hose. I got the main valve for the house shut and messed > around with the shut-off for a while and cranked it open again and it > seems to be happy for the time being. I'm starting to contemplate > replacing all my shut-offs with ball valves. Replacing everything with > PEX actually sounds very good at the moment, although I think Teresa > might > hang me with the PEX if I attempt a job like that. Certainly not before > the deck railings are done. > > I hate plumbing! > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu> cmu.edu > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ > > If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following > address for more information: > http://www.jaws-users.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! 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