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Rambling "How I Spent My ${DURATION}" braindump.
Last week I was carrying bags of water softener #salt into my furnace room and noticed a small #limescale deposit on the floor in the middle of the room that hadn't been there a few days before. Directly above it are a bunch of water #pipes going off in different directions. Found one 90 degree elbow that had more than the usual accumulation of green stuff on it, like a tiny #stalactite. Okay, water #leak found.
I was going to wait for the weekend to fix it, but it seemed to be speeding up, so I did it Wednesday. I had to cut a chunk of #convoluted pipe out of the system that was way more complex than it should have been. It had to go around other #pipes and join another #pipe and around some joists, but the #plumber who put this in 40 years ago had a #fetish or something. No word of a lie, it reminded me more of the Windows NT "pipes" #screensaver than anything else.
In a volume about the size of a 2L bottle of pop, there were 4 #elbows, 3 #unions, and five little pieces of pipe if I remember correctly. I soldered together a matching jumble of parts ... and then couldn't solder one side of it in, because it's at a local low point, and I couldn't get the last dribbles of #water to stop. Any water wicks the heat away and the #solder doesn't stick.
Ended up using a #flex line with #sharkbite connectors to replace the whole thing. What a shame, I was proud of my replacement.
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Rambling "How I Spent My ${DURATION}" braindump.
Last week I was carrying bags of water softener #salt into my furnace room and noticed a small #limescale deposit on the floor in the middle of the room that hadn't been there a few days before. Directly above it are a bunch of water #pipes going off in different directions. Found one 90 degree elbow that had more than the usual accumulation of green stuff on it, like a tiny #stalactite. Okay, water #leak found.
I was going to wait for the weekend to fix it, but it seemed to be speeding up, so I did it Wednesday. I had to cut a chunk of #convoluted pipe out of the system that was way more complex than it should have been. It had to go around other #pipes and join another #pipe and around some joists, but the #plumber who put this in 40 years ago had a #fetish or something. No word of a lie, it reminded me more of the Windows NT "pipes" #screensaver than anything else.
In a volume about the size of a 2L bottle of pop, there were 4 #elbows, 3 #unions, and five little pieces of pipe if I remember correctly. I soldered together a matching jumble of parts ... and then couldn't solder one side of it in, because it's at a local low point, and I couldn't get the last dribbles of #water to stop. Any water wicks the heat away and the #solder doesn't stick.
Ended up using a #flex line with #sharkbite connectors to replace the whole thing. What a shame, I was proud of my replacement.
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Rambling "How I Spent My ${DURATION}" braindump.
Last week I was carrying bags of water softener #salt into my furnace room and noticed a small #limescale deposit on the floor in the middle of the room that hadn't been there a few days before. Directly above it are a bunch of water #pipes going off in different directions. Found one 90 degree elbow that had more than the usual accumulation of green stuff on it, like a tiny #stalactite. Okay, water #leak found.
I was going to wait for the weekend to fix it, but it seemed to be speeding up, so I did it Wednesday. I had to cut a chunk of #convoluted pipe out of the system that was way more complex than it should have been. It had to go around other #pipes and join another #pipe and around some joists, but the #plumber who put this in 40 years ago had a #fetish or something. No word of a lie, it reminded me more of the Windows NT "pipes" #screensaver than anything else.
In a volume about the size of a 2L bottle of pop, there were 4 #elbows, 3 #unions, and five little pieces of pipe if I remember correctly. I soldered together a matching jumble of parts ... and then couldn't solder one side of it in, because it's at a local low point, and I couldn't get the last dribbles of #water to stop. Any water wicks the heat away and the #solder doesn't stick.
Ended up using a #flex line with #sharkbite connectors to replace the whole thing. What a shame, I was proud of my replacement.
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Rambling "How I Spent My ${DURATION}" braindump.
Last week I was carrying bags of water softener #salt into my furnace room and noticed a small #limescale deposit on the floor in the middle of the room that hadn't been there a few days before. Directly above it are a bunch of water #pipes going off in different directions. Found one 90 degree elbow that had more than the usual accumulation of green stuff on it, like a tiny #stalactite. Okay, water #leak found.
I was going to wait for the weekend to fix it, but it seemed to be speeding up, so I did it Wednesday. I had to cut a chunk of #convoluted pipe out of the system that was way more complex than it should have been. It had to go around other #pipes and join another #pipe and around some joists, but the #plumber who put this in 40 years ago had a #fetish or something. No word of a lie, it reminded me more of the Windows NT "pipes" #screensaver than anything else.
In a volume about the size of a 2L bottle of pop, there were 4 #elbows, 3 #unions, and five little pieces of pipe if I remember correctly. I soldered together a matching jumble of parts ... and then couldn't solder one side of it in, because it's at a local low point, and I couldn't get the last dribbles of #water to stop. Any water wicks the heat away and the #solder doesn't stick.
Ended up using a #flex line with #sharkbite connectors to replace the whole thing. What a shame, I was proud of my replacement.
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Rambling "How I Spent My ${DURATION}" braindump.
Last week I was carrying bags of water softener #salt into my furnace room and noticed a small #limescale deposit on the floor in the middle of the room that hadn't been there a few days before. Directly above it are a bunch of water #pipes going off in different directions. Found one 90 degree elbow that had more than the usual accumulation of green stuff on it, like a tiny #stalactite. Okay, water #leak found.
I was going to wait for the weekend to fix it, but it seemed to be speeding up, so I did it Wednesday. I had to cut a chunk of #convoluted pipe out of the system that was way more complex than it should have been. It had to go around other #pipes and join another #pipe and around some joists, but the #plumber who put this in 40 years ago had a #fetish or something. No word of a lie, it reminded me more of the Windows NT "pipes" #screensaver than anything else.
In a volume about the size of a 2L bottle of pop, there were 4 #elbows, 3 #unions, and five little pieces of pipe if I remember correctly. I soldered together a matching jumble of parts ... and then couldn't solder one side of it in, because it's at a local low point, and I couldn't get the last dribbles of #water to stop. Any water wicks the heat away and the #solder doesn't stick.
Ended up using a #flex line with #sharkbite connectors to replace the whole thing. What a shame, I was proud of my replacement.
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https://www.fogolf.com/1148817/from-historic-landmarks-to-tropical-adventures/ From historic landmarks to tropical adventures #BeachClub #BermudaSplendor #GolfCourses #golfer #GrottoBayBeachResort #HamiltonPrincess #HistoricLandmark #Island; #MustVisit #NatureReserve #Picasso #Showcasing #SpaBermuda #stalactite #stalagmite #TropicalAdventure #warhol #work
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https://www.fogolf.com/1148817/from-historic-landmarks-to-tropical-adventures/ From historic landmarks to tropical adventures #BeachClub #BermudaSplendor #GolfCourses #golfer #GrottoBayBeachResort #HamiltonPrincess #HistoricLandmark #Island; #MustVisit #NatureReserve #Picasso #Showcasing #SpaBermuda #stalactite #stalagmite #TropicalAdventure #warhol #work
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https://www.fogolf.com/1148817/from-historic-landmarks-to-tropical-adventures/ From historic landmarks to tropical adventures #BeachClub #BermudaSplendor #GolfCourses #golfer #GrottoBayBeachResort #HamiltonPrincess #HistoricLandmark #Island; #MustVisit #NatureReserve #Picasso #Showcasing #SpaBermuda #stalactite #stalagmite #TropicalAdventure #warhol #work
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https://www.fogolf.com/1148817/from-historic-landmarks-to-tropical-adventures/ From historic landmarks to tropical adventures #BeachClub #BermudaSplendor #GolfCourses #golfer #GrottoBayBeachResort #HamiltonPrincess #HistoricLandmark #Island; #MustVisit #NatureReserve #Picasso #Showcasing #SpaBermuda #stalactite #stalagmite #TropicalAdventure #warhol #work
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It was cold during the dog walk, I spotted some stalactites over the river and I managed to take a nice photo :)
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It was cold during the dog walk, I spotted some stalactites over the river and I managed to take a nice photo :)
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It was cold during the dog walk, I spotted some stalactites over the river and I managed to take a nice photo :)
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Boss Byproducts: Calthemites Are Man-Made Cave Dwellers https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/boss-byproducts-calthemites-are-man-made-cave-dwellers/ #calciumcarbonate #secondarydeposit #HackadayColumns #chemistryhacks #OriginalArt #calthemite #stalactite #stalagmite #Chemistry #FlowStone #ironoxide #concrete #deposit
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Boss Byproducts: Calthemites Are Man-Made Cave Dwellers https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/boss-byproducts-calthemites-are-man-made-cave-dwellers/ #calciumcarbonate #secondarydeposit #HackadayColumns #chemistryhacks #OriginalArt #calthemite #stalactite #stalagmite #Chemistry #FlowStone #ironoxide #concrete #deposit
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Boss Byproducts: Calthemites Are Man-Made Cave Dwellers https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/boss-byproducts-calthemites-are-man-made-cave-dwellers/ #calciumcarbonate #secondarydeposit #HackadayColumns #chemistryhacks #OriginalArt #calthemite #stalactite #stalagmite #Chemistry #FlowStone #ironoxide #concrete #deposit
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Boss Byproducts: Calthemites Are Man-Made Cave Dwellers - Some lovely orange calthemite flowstone colored so by iron oxide from rusting stee... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/boss-byproducts-calthemites-are-man-made-cave-dwellers/ #calciumcarbonate #secondarydeposit #hackadaycolumns #chemistryhacks #originalart #calthemite #stalactite #stalagmite #chemistry #flowstone #ironoxide #concrete #deposit
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Boss Byproducts: Calthemites Are Man-Made Cave Dwellers - Some lovely orange calthemite flowstone colored so by iron oxide from rusting stee... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/boss-byproducts-calthemites-are-man-made-cave-dwellers/ #calciumcarbonate #secondarydeposit #hackadaycolumns #chemistryhacks #originalart #calthemite #stalactite #stalagmite #chemistry #flowstone #ironoxide #concrete #deposit
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Boss Byproducts: Calthemites Are Man-Made Cave Dwellers - Some lovely orange calthemite flowstone colored so by iron oxide from rusting stee... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/boss-byproducts-calthemites-are-man-made-cave-dwellers/ #calciumcarbonate #secondarydeposit #hackadaycolumns #chemistryhacks #originalart #calthemite #stalactite #stalagmite #chemistry #flowstone #ironoxide #concrete #deposit
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Boss Byproducts: Calthemites Are Man-Made Cave Dwellers - Some lovely orange calthemite flowstone colored so by iron oxide from rusting stee... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/boss-byproducts-calthemites-are-man-made-cave-dwellers/ #calciumcarbonate #secondarydeposit #hackadaycolumns #chemistryhacks #originalart #calthemite #stalactite #stalagmite #chemistry #flowstone #ironoxide #concrete #deposit
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Boss Byproducts: Calthemites Are Man-Made Cave Dwellers - Some lovely orange calthemite flowstone colored so by iron oxide from rusting stee... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/boss-byproducts-calthemites-are-man-made-cave-dwellers/ #calciumcarbonate #secondarydeposit #hackadaycolumns #chemistryhacks #originalart #calthemite #stalactite #stalagmite #chemistry #flowstone #ironoxide #concrete #deposit
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The Postojna cave. Europe’s largest with beautiful formations all kinds of colors.. These caves are millions of years old. It takes 100 years to build 3 cm of a stalactite. #cave #europetravel #cavephotography📸 #stalactite
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The Postojna cave. Europe’s largest with beautiful formations all kinds of colors.. These caves are millions of years old. It takes 100 years to build 3 cm of a stalactite. #cave #europetravel #cavephotography📸 #stalactite
Posted into The Travel Exchange @the-travel-exchange-travelers
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The Postojna cave. Europe’s largest with beautiful formations all kinds of colors.. These caves are millions of years old. It takes 100 years to build 3 cm of a stalactite. #cave #europetravel #cavephotography📸 #stalactite
Posted into The Travel Exchange @the-travel-exchange-travelers
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📷 Postojna Caves
🚩 Postojna, Slovenija
#StandingStoneSunday #Photography #Cave #Stalacmite #Stalactite
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📷 Postojna Caves
🚩 Postojna, Slovenija
#StandingStoneSunday #Photography #Cave #Stalacmite #Stalactite
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📷 Postojna Caves
🚩 Postojna, Slovenija
#StandingStoneSunday #Photography #Cave #Stalacmite #Stalactite
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📷 Postojna Caves
🚩 Postojna, Slovenija
#StandingStoneSunday #Photography #Cave #Stalacmite #Stalactite
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📷 Postojna Caves
🚩 Postojna, Slovenija
#StandingStoneSunday #Photography #Cave #Stalacmite #Stalactite
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Gorgeous Polished #Amethyst #Geode Sphere with #Stalactite Amethyst Slice and one single crystal.
Photo copyright ©️ Moonstruck Crystals
By #GeologyWonders
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer -
Gorgeous Polished #Amethyst #Geode Sphere with #Stalactite Amethyst Slice and one single crystal.
Photo copyright ©️ Moonstruck Crystals
By #GeologyWonders
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer -
Gorgeous Polished #Amethyst #Geode Sphere with #Stalactite Amethyst Slice and one single crystal.
Photo copyright ©️ Moonstruck Crystals
By #GeologyWonders
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer -
Gorgeous Polished #Amethyst #Geode Sphere with #Stalactite Amethyst Slice and one single crystal.
Photo copyright ©️ Moonstruck Crystals
By #GeologyWonders
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer -
Gorgeous Polished #Amethyst #Geode Sphere with #Stalactite Amethyst Slice and one single crystal.
Photo copyright ©️ Moonstruck Crystals
By #GeologyWonders
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer
