What's eating the pipes
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Gary Swart
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I hope you get some answers on this. It looks very strange to me.
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Defective PVC that cannot stand normal day/night thermal cycling or other normal mechanical pipe stress?
Defective PVC that cannot stand normal day/night thermal cycling or other normal mechanical pipe stress?
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Master Plumber Mark
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paint thinnner
I am willing to guess
that is not a very good pic but my guess...
might it be a paint shop>>>????
acetone, laquer thinner, turpentine, gasoline
all will eventually break down PVC pipe...
I am willing to guess
that is not a very good pic but my guess...
might it be a paint shop>>>????
acetone, laquer thinner, turpentine, gasoline
all will eventually break down PVC pipe...
MaintenanceGuy
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irrigation line, buried in very, very sandy soil. No photoshop, I took the picture myself. No exposure to solvents unless that was done before the pipe was installed.
The grooves are completely smooth, no tool marks or scrapes, no sharp spots. Looks like it was slowly eroded away but I can't figure out what would have done that.
The grooves are completely smooth, no tool marks or scrapes, no sharp spots. Looks like it was slowly eroded away but I can't figure out what would have done that.
Shacko
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I can't figure what it is, looks like a bald piece of pipe with a mystery (fitting?) shoved into the bald pipe with another bald pipe shoved into the mystery fitting. I think it is some kind of jerry rig. It may be a reducer that someone forced into the pipe by heating it.
MaintenanceGuy
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The piece is back at the shop and I won't be there again until Tuesday but I believe this is a piece of 2-1/2" pvc reduced to 2" with a standard pvc reducing bushing. If it is some sort of jerry rig, it didn't jump out at me. On first glance, it looked like all the fittings were standard and right for the job. But I was focused on the grooves, not the type of fitting.
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grooves
Those grooves look EXACTLY like the ones caused by water leaking through the joints. That joint does not appear to have EVER been glued together so the leaks would have been all around its circumference.
Those grooves look EXACTLY like the ones caused by water leaking through the joints. That joint does not appear to have EVER been glued together so the leaks would have been all around its circumference.
Cwhyu2
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Kreemoweet
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It's sombody's hack job (literally). There are no pipe fittings designed to go inside the
pipe, as Mr. Hack tried to do there.
pipe, as Mr. Hack tried to do there.
