[BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic

hi all, forgive me as a new kid on the block for telling some of you how to suck eggs, and what i am about to point out may not apply in north america or canada, but it certainly applys here in the uk where our supply line is between 230 and 240 volts. so in case someone is on the list

RE: [BlindHandyMan] 9 Essential Wrenches and Pliers

Dale, By basin wrench are you referring to a tool which is a long rod with a ratcheting jaw on one end and a handle to turn the rod on the other? If so, you are correct in this is the only tool I have found which makes trying to get at the nuts just under the faucet on a sink a doable project. I

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Easier Plumbing with PEX

Hi Ray: I used it on my basement renovation. Installed a full bathroom and laundry room without using soldering. What a difference! Just remember to push the pipe firmly into the fitting and that if you don't hear it crunching when you turn the fitting joint, you don't have it right and it

Re: [BlindHandyMan] 9 Essential Wrenches and Pliers

Yep, That is the tool. I have a hose reel at the back door which leaked from the day I bought it. One of those damn things I have two where the hose connection is tucked away where no human hand or nearly no tool can reach. That thing frustrated me no end and then I got my basin wrench for a

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic

Dave, great post, most interesting. Don - Original Message - From: dave and sally To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:28 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic hi all, forgive me as a new kid on the

Re: [BlindHandyMan] 9 Essential Wrenches and Pliers

Dale, Some old time plumbers have another name for that tool. A friend's father an 80 year old retired plumber calls it a bib wrench. Mine had a lot of use changing the gas bottles on the gas grill. Well, that was before they made a mandatory change on the type of the fittings. - Original

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Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic

I think, in the U.S. now a days, the connection between the electrical ground and water system is no longer used. I was under the imression that the electrical safety ground should be tied only to the ground rod that's directly below the meter box. What I remember being very surprised at when we

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic

Tom, You are correct however it is new installs or when the service is upgraded. When my water meter was installed a jumper 10 gauge wire was used to connect the copper above and below the meter. A few years later I had my service upgraded and the 8 foot ground rod was installed. My home is

[BlindHandyMan] Basin Wrench

Dale, The basin wrench I have here... It's been around for ages...Has a changeable jaw that enables you to use it on somewhat larger nuts. I don't have anyone around here right now to check, so I don't know the manufacturor I would think that they still make this kind (with the changeable

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Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic

Never mind in hotel rooms, for a time we had coin operated electrical and gas meters too in our flats and homes. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. - Original Message - From:

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[BlindHandyMan] electrical

Let me ask, doesn't the water in the pipe conduct back o earth ground? this was a very good commentary. On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, dave and sally wrote: hi all, forgive me as a new kid on the block for telling some of you how to suck = eggs, and what i am about to point out may not apply in north

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