Plumbing tools

[stihl saws]

Found these in a bucket in my building in VA, forgot I had them. For when pipes were actually metal...

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All real plumbing is still metal. Just gotta have us old guys that can work on it.

 

[Al Smith]

I worked for a small plumbing and heating contractor when I was in high school .That was in the days of cast iron drain lines .During the mid 60's they thought copper waste -drain -vent was the answer ,it wasn't .The hard water here in the giant corn field ate right through it in about 20 years .

 

[junkman]

I bet stihl sawing worked on plumbing back when they bored out tree logs for pipes ,downtown seattle still has some old cedar pipes in use i believe .

 

[cantgitright]

I bet stihl sawing worked on plumbing back when they bored out tree logs for pipes ,downtown seattle still has some old cedar pipes in use i believe .

well they certainly didn't have plastic back then, did they @stihl sawing ?

 

[stihl sawing]

 

[stihl saws]

Who here knows (besides stihl sawing) what oakum is, without googling?

 

[Termitebuffet]

Who here knows (besides stihl sawing) what oakum is, without googling?

For leaded joints

 

[stihl saws]

I worked for a small plumbing and heating contractor when I was in high school .That was in the days of cast iron drain lines .During the mid 60's they thought copper waste -drain -vent was the answer ,it wasn't .The hard water here in the giant corn field ate right through it in about 20 years .

I have trouble in my area with the hot water eating copper from the inside. Cold water always seems fine.

 

[Guido Salvage]

For leaded joints

On cast iron drain pipes. I have packed a joint or two...

 

[Termitebuffet]

On cast iron drain pipes. I have packed a joint or two...

Yes ....I left out cast iron , I've leaded a few myself

Zoo City Sawz

 

[Al Smith]

I replaced the entire copper lines under my house a few years back with cpvc. The house was built in '73 and about 1978 they drilled an oil well about a mile away as the crow flies .In doing so they polluted all the deep wells in the area with hydrogen sulfide gas --skunk water .It ate out the lines .I called a well driller and sunk another well. Above the limestone at 117 feet ,no sulfer . The other well is 200,sulfer.

Now here's how geology works .I was using the sulfer well for my geothermal heat pump .Something happened ,the well appeared to "sand in" .I let it sit unpumped all summer then blew it out with a big air compressor and installed a super k sand trap .
The sand was blue clay slurry and evidently sealed off the aquafer that carried the sulfer,it's gone .

 

[stihl sawing]

Rigid pipe cutter.

 

[stihl sawing]

A Rigid toilet unstopper thingy.

 

[cantgitright]

whas dat do...unclog yer crapper?

looks painful..........

 

[stihl sawing]

whas dat do...unclog yer crapper?

looks painful..........

Could be a bung hole borer.

 

[cantgitright]

 

[czar800]

Had to dig out a few things for the swimming pool... So I took a few pictures

 

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