lol........maybe :0~
I've never done the above before but I can work with copper and brass real well. I've made faucets that have no extension kits available for granite, work with the use of those two components and a little time.
How was Indy up there today with all the hoop la and the colts? I have a cousin up there that is the head of the DEA and is the lead man in security for the Colts whereever they go.
Here's something I do on occaision when a piping scheme is all fittings and hardly no pipe:
Old OLD copper pipe systems with a million stop valves and the like....
Remove the entire valve assembly, remove the packing nut which is always quite large on the old ones, sand the brass completely clean in the area where the stem bore was and clean the outside top of a 1/2" or 3/4" copper cap.
Solder the two together and now you've built a cap for an existing valve that would be too much trouble to remove and involved, you gain the flow you was losing when the stem assembly was in. It works I promise. I have numerous old buildings I do consistent work in and I always check to make sure they are holding.
A good solder connection of those two materials is usually rock solid.
On another note,
Got 18 service calls whiz through my office today, I pushed 6 to tomorrow and wednesday.
Going to replace a sump pump @ 10 tonight and tomorrow I have to run a new copper line that froze and bust above the floor in a 4 unit building.
I did another job today where the fire department turned the water off to the entire house at the main. Couldn't get the damn valve to turn so I unscrewed the incoming side of the meter and wah lah! Ice and I'm sure the entire home is froze solid.
I don't own one of those thawers......I'd like to but not at $580. I did however think that it would of been a good one for the call I'm talking about but what are the chances that low current can have an adverse effect on something in the home?
I've been told they are great for outside water services but I've never heard of it's use inside.
My truck parked on the street was worth more than the house I was working at, literally. Didn't want to invest too much time there and that waiting game would suck.
I did get the main to blow out ice and run...but I'm sure it froze back up in ten minutes flat.
These are the days when I wish that my repeat customers DIDN'T call me when I get this busy. I'm too old for this cold weather crap and it's murder on my hands.
Is it really worth it to buy a dethawer without entangling yourself into a spider's web? Plastic pipe intermixed kills that use completely.
Someone told me one of those small arc welders with the amperage turned down to 5 amps does the same thing. Or was that the trick to shock a pond and bring the fish up to do a head count?