Plumbing success!
Ted L.
plumbing project without any collateral damage and without having to
call in a plumber. My task is to replace a 35-year faucet set in the
guest bathroom. Without having to resort to a hacksaw or a blowtorch I
was completely successful in removing the two faucet handles, the faucet
itself, and the sink drain, all of which are to be replaced by new.
I'm guessing it took me about 12 hours. (It should take almost no time
at all to put the new ones in ... at least in comparison!)
--
Ted L.
Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.
jimbo
> I'm guessing it took me about 12 hours. (It should take almost no time
> at all to put the new ones in ... at least in comparison!)
If you were a plumber you would starve to death.
Jim
SandyG
:-)
--
- Sandy
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of
the light." - Dylan Thomas
F.H.
Did you curse during this project?
Sharx35
"F.H." <connec...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Isn't that a given?
mikewestvale
I wonder how many nomine Dominis it took to complete the job?
Chronocidal Charlie
Well, *just* go on 'nd blow yer *horn* Ted. Yob vell dun. Kinda dispels
that Woe-Be-Gone myth that Only Minnesota Wimmen is strong, and the men
jest gud looken, but all 'nd kids above average. Shows that sum
Minnesota Men is *useful* 'nd skilled at other than... Well, what ever
*real* *men* 'n Minnesota duz when they wind up with time on their hands
like when they get *retired* and pastured. ;-)
Don't let that Kanukistani Honker get yer goat. Doubt he could pour piss
out of a boot with the instructions on the heel.
I didn't fare quite so well on my latest DIY *computer* *upgrade*
though. Took a little longer than I expected. I'd stated that the manual
that came with the new mobo was concise. BS, half of it was printed
upside down and backward and the gnu mobo turned out to have a layout
that was *totally* unconventional compared to anything in my past
experience. I like to have worn the damn thing out installing it. Get it
all installed and no boot. Take it apart and double check everything,
substitute in old components to trouble shoot, etc. Damn near 30 hours
of non-stop fighting with it. Burned up the SKYPE VOIP lines between
here and Utah a crying on my Linux Sponsors shoulder, seeking
suggestions, etc. He fired up his *search* abilities and burned up the
WWW, for info relating to prollem I was having. Finally yesterday
morning early, I'd decided to can the project and back shelve it in the
closet for later date instead of going the route of getting a RMA and
going through all the shit of returning the board. Sponsor man and I
talked about it and I tole em, "Well, I don't wanna send it back yet and
completely give up in exasperation, 'cause I gots gut level feeling it
something *damn* *simple* that I ain't seeing." We talked little longer
and he sed about two words, being, "blah, blah...this fellow sed...
'front panel connections up right beside the Auxiliary Power for
Graphics (PWR3)...blah, blah, serial connector...blah blah.."
"Holy Shit!" thought I, and picked up the board, looked up by the PWR3
connector and, screamed.... "I can see the light!"
I'd been fighting the son of a bitch for two days trying to get it to
work with my front panel switches, pwr, reset, etc. connected to the
mobo aux serial pins that are, on this board, in just exactly the place
where in the past, with every mobo I've *ever* worked on,, the front
panel conections. Same identical pin and plug layout also. ... "Doh!"
Rung off with *sponsor* *man* and tore the son of a bitch apart again,
reassembled it *right* this time, put power to it, hit the switch, 'nd
YeeeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
My first ever *quad* core computer *roared* to life and booted with
*four* mind you, *FOUR* Lil Fat Linux Penguins a sitten on top of the
*boot* screen to show that all four core was a raren to go to work.
I just finished installing the *latest* 'nd *greatest* Mandriva 2010 OS
on it along side Win 7 and I guess as soon as I hit send on this, I
gonna reboot back into it and tweak it. May as well, I flopped on couch
late yesterday afternoon after I ascertained that the computer was going
to work and died until about two this morning. Done went and satiated my
sleep deprivation problem, got fresh pot of coffee brewed, some
breakfast in my belly and...
Kid of mine done wore down 'bout ever excuse I was able to come up with,
so I gotta go fishing this weekend or next. He even researched out and
found that this month for a promotional, Tejas is allowing fishing
without a license in all our state parks and lakes. Weather stays 'long
lines it has lately, it gonna be nice for it.
Life's good.
CC
S.LaRocca
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>
> If you were a plumber you would starve to death.
> Jim
Killjoy bastid.
--
*************************************************************************
A fartin' horse is ready to retire....A fartin' man's the one to hire.
jimbo
> Killjoy bastid.
I'd rather set myself on fire than spend 12 hours to remove a tap
set. We should save his nerves by chipping in a buying him a basin
wrench.
Jim
Mark Warner
>
> I'd been fighting the son of a bitch for two days trying to get it to
> work with my front panel switches, pwr, reset, etc. connected to the
> mobo aux serial pins that are, on this board, in just exactly the place
> where in the past, with every mobo I've *ever* worked on,, the front
> panel conections. Same identical pin and plug layout also. ... "Doh!"
Best similar thing I ever did was plug the extra 4-pin plug for the main
ATX 20+4 connection into the 4-pin socket on the board that powers the
CPU. Was amazed that there wasn't a smoke leak, and that everything
worked when I got it straightened out.
--
Mark Warner
...lose .inhibitions when replying
Chronocidal Charlie
I am constantly amazed at how much punishment just about any solid state
devices and components can take, physically and electrically all way
from static to over voltages or reversed polarity, particularly today's
modern motherboards. My hands being about as dexterous, gentle and
precise as a horse shelling peas. During probably eight installation and
removals in this case, the only thing that really suffered was one of
the expandable tits on the new processor fan mounts and it was
fortunately on the old one. I believe a dab of superglue with let it go
one more round.
Wait a minute? What hell am I doing talking to you, a lowly single core
user? What are my new found friends going to think?
CC
Charlie M. 1958
Leave it to you two geeks to turn a plumbing thread into a computer thread.
Chronocidal Charlie
We'll get to the plumbing in a bit Charlie. Gotta get the electrical
shit out of the way. HVAC comes next. Would you suggest I use rigid of
flex copper to run from my water main to my processor cooling tower heat
sink? I'd thought about tapping into the refrigerated water supply from
the complex cooling system, but it gets switched over sometime on really
cold winter days to hot water and that might be lil disastrous for my
processor, so I decided to stick to the normal cold water supply. Unless
I can get my medical oxygen supplier to install me a LOX storage tank
and evaporator/condenser system. ;-)
You still doing that fancy woodsmithing stuff you do with them boxen,
cabinetry and stuff you used to sometime post some pictures of?
CC
Charlie M. 1958
> We'll get to the plumbing in a bit Charlie. Gotta get the electrical
> shit out of the way. HVAC comes next. Would you suggest I use rigid of
> flex copper to run from my water main to my processor cooling tower heat
> sink? I'd thought about tapping into the refrigerated water supply from
> the complex cooling system, but it gets switched over sometime on really
> cold winter days to hot water and that might be lil disastrous for my
> processor, so I decided to stick to the normal cold water supply.
Damn those single pipe systems.
Unless
> I can get my medical oxygen supplier to install me a LOX storage tank
> and evaporator/condenser system. ;-)
Now you're talkin'!
>
> You still doing that fancy woodsmithing stuff you do with them boxen,
> cabinetry and stuff you used to sometime post some pictures of?
>
Not only that, but I've still got all ten fingers, too.
Charlie M. 1958
> Chronocidal Charlie wrote:
>>
>> You still doing that fancy woodsmithing stuff you do with them boxen,
>> cabinetry and stuff you used to sometime post some pictures of?
>>
>
> Not only that, but I've still got all ten fingers, too.
And since you asked, I don't remember if I posted this one I made for a
friend's home group to keep their chips in:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2593/4081015140_912c7b489f_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2645/4080255111_236013a1f8_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2506/4080255141_4670f7f480_o.jpg
CW
>
> Not only that, but I've still got all ten fingers, too.
Fsckin' braggart....
F.H.
Damn nice. Also could pass for a prototype/mini-model coffin for a
famous checkers player. <g>
Ken P
Damn, that is some nice work! Get any satisfaction out of doing
an excellent project? :-)
--
Ken P
Charlie M. 1958
I was trying to capture the spirit of black and white thinking. :-)
Charlie M. 1958
>
> Damn, that is some nice work! Get any satisfaction out of doing
> an excellent project? :-)
>
Woodworking is a continuous lesson in patience, and I need all the help
I can get in that area. ;-)
Chronocidal Charlie
How that fer turning a Plumbing thread into an AA thread. ;-)
CC
Tara Green
Yeah, but it doesn't count if they're webbed ;-)
Charlie M. 1958
Webbed? Nah... the only problem is a lot of hair on my palms. But we all
know what caused /that/ .
Tara Green
;-)
Chronocidal Charlie
Well, it din't take that long to drop frum plumbing to lineage to sex
did it? Sharx should show up any minute now. Or someone commenting on
which hand, *left* or *right* is *might* 'nd which is best fer wielding
a hammer or spear. ;-)
CC
S.LaRocca
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>
> I'd rather set myself on fire than spend 12 hours to remove a tap
> set. We should save his nerves by chipping in a buying him a basin
> wrench.
> Jim
>
I'm such a train wreck I refuse to even change my own oil, or replace
headlights.
Mark Warner
>
> And since you asked, I don't remember if I posted this one I made for a
> friend's home group to keep their chips in:
>
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2593/4081015140_912c7b489f_o.jpg
>
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2645/4080255111_236013a1f8_o.jpg
>
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2506/4080255141_4670f7f480_o.jpg
Charlie --
Is everything you do one-off custom jobs, or would you be interested in
doing short quantity runs of less elegant stuff?
I'm serious. I occasionally need suppliers to make custom packages for
our products in quantities that are lower than what most of the
commercial vendors I work with want to mess with.
markwarner1954 AT att DOT net
Charlie M. 1958
mikewestvale
Hey that would be a dandy box to put my ashes in, n someone kin haul
them here n there and that way I kin get my ashes hauled.
mikewestvale
See you didn't have to wait for Sharx to get to the sex part.
Mark Warner
>
> Wait a minute? What hell am I doing talking to you, a lowly single core
> user? What are my new found friends going to think?
Isn't there something in the literature about associating with lower
types or something like that?
--
Mark Warner
MEPIS Linux
Registered Linux User #415318
...lose .inhibitions when replying
mgh
"Charlie M. 1958" <alw...@impatient.com> wrote in message
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Sweet! Of course you do mean poker chips. :)
peace
mgh
Ted H
Before I went back to school, I cooked for a living. My usual job
was the saute station. One night I dropped a floured trout into a
pan that was a *lot* hotter than I expected, and the oil shot out
onto the back of my other hand. Got a hell of a burn, and had
bandaging around the palm to hold the dressing on the back. When
people saw the bandages and asked me what happened, I usually told
them I had cut myself shaving. Not too many got the joke.
--
Ted H.
Charlie M. 1958
:-)
mgh
"Ted H" <th...@heise.nu> wrote in message
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Hahahahahaha.....
Not funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5BKX3QCjk0
;)
peace
mgh
Sharx35
"Chronocidal Charlie" <c...@chronocidal-charlie.me> wrote in message
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You mean those 4 penguins?
Sharx35
"mikewestvale" <mikewe...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Sounds like YOU need to have YOUR ashes hauled!!!
mikewestvale
> "mikewestvale" <mikewestv...@gmail.com> wrote in message
You sure are predictable.
Sharx35
Consistency is part of being sober: being erratic goes with drunkenness.
Ted L.
"F.H." <connec...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Ted L. wrote:
> > I really have to boast. I accomplished the hardest part of my latest
> > plumbing project without any collateral damage and without having to
> > call in a plumber. My task is to replace a 35-year faucet set in the
> > guest bathroom. Without having to resort to a hacksaw or a blowtorch I
> > was completely successful in removing the two faucet handles, the faucet
> > itself, and the sink drain, all of which are to be replaced by new.
> > I'm guessing it took me about 12 hours. (It should take almost no time
> > at all to put the new ones in ... at least in comparison!)
> >
>
> Did you curse during this project?
Actually, no. I was so convinced that I couldn't do it that when I
found myself making steady progress, even if very slowly, I was quite
joyful. While of course I was ecstatic when I turned the water on and
ran a whole sinkful down the drain and nothing leaked, I still think the
high point was when I had to take the faucet itself out. After
disconnecting the water lines there was still one nut holding it in
place. Unfortunately, it was in such a confined space (maybe 1/4"
clearance) that even the basin wrench wouldn't fit (yes, I did have a
basin wrench.) Too tight to get any other kind of wrench in and the
stem of the faucet stuck out enough a socket wrench wouldn't fit either
... but then on a hunch or just dumb luck I tried a sparkplug socket --
it turned out to be exactly the right size and the extended depth was
just right to clear the stem. I think I did cry "Eureka" when it fit
perfectly and came loose without much strain at all.
--
Ted L.
Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.
F.H.
Congrats Ted. It /is/ good to win one. You are adapting to retirement
well.