New garage time!

[yanmars]

$4 a foot. Wow.

 

[fatjay]

$4 a foot. Wow.

If you have a source for cheap romex, i'm all ears.

 

[EddieWalker]

You can pack the pipe with white bread to stop the water from coming out while soldering. They also sell a dissolvable foam type product that does the same thing as bread.

I keep a length of clear tubing in my soldering toolbox that fits inside half inch copper pipe. I either syphon the water out of the pipe, or I put the tubing as far in as I can, then plug the end of the tubing with my finger and pull the water out in the tubing.

If I'm lucky, they house I'm working on has an outside spicket that's lower than the water level and I can drain it that way.

 

[fatjay]

You can pack the pipe with white bread to stop the water from coming out while soldering. They also sell a dissolvable foam type product that does the same thing as bread.

I keep a length of clear tubing in my soldering toolbox that fits inside half inch copper pipe. I either syphon the water out of the pipe, or I put the tubing as far in as I can, then plug the end of the tubing with my finger and pull the water out in the tubing.

If I'm lucky, they house I'm working on has an outside spicket that's lower than the water level and I can drain it that way.

How do you get hte white bread out after you're done?

I ended up dropping the brackets that hold it up and draining it that way. The whole length of the tube between shutoff's was only about 20' and linear.

 

[EddieWalker]

The bread dissolves. Never use the crust, just the white bread. You have a window of time to get the soldering done, but if you take too long, you have to add more bread.

I've only done the bread trick once. After that I found the foam stuff at Lowes and used it for years. But now I just use the tubing. Most of the time I'm sweating for water valves in bathrooms, and the water doesn't have anywhere lower to go then where I cut the copper. I just need to lower the water enough so I can get the copper hot.

 

[fatjay]

Ok so it's not "packed" with bread, just kind of stuffed in there lightly.

 

[airbiscuit]

 

[EddieWalker]

Ok so it's not "packed" with bread, just kind of stuffed in there lightly.

I'm not sure what the difference is? You use the white bread to stop the water from flowing, so you have to force as much as possible in there to stop the water.

 

[airbiscuit]

You can pack the pipe with white bread to stop the water from coming out while soldering. They also sell a dissolvable foam type product that does the same thing as bread.

I keep a length of clear tubing in my soldering toolbox that fits inside half inch copper pipe. I either syphon the water out of the pipe, or I put the tubing as far in as I can, then plug the end of the tubing with my finger and pull the water out in the tubing.

If I'm lucky, they house I'm working on has an outside spicket that's lower than the water level and I can drain it that way.

What is that dissolvable foam?

 

[EddieWalker]

What is that dissolvable foam?

I just did a search on Lowes.com and Amazon.com for what I thought it was called, but didn't find it. I haven't bought it in years, but when I did, it was from Lowes.

It was white, flat and about a foot square. There might of been a couple sheets of it. I think it was about half an inch thick. It lasted quite a while. I probably bought it twice in ten years.

It wasn't something I used all the time, and eventually I think I just threw it away because I switched to the plastic tube for getting water out of the lines.

 

[fatjay]

Heat pump is online. It's heating water and using about 600w of electric. At start up it did take a chunk of power for about an hour but it's settled down now.

I guess it's time to start cleaning.

 

[murphy1244]

Heat pump is online. It's heating water and using about 600w of electric. At start up it did take a chunk of power for about an hour but it's settled down now.

I guess it's time to start cleaning.

Impressive room. Is the all that electronics protected from lightning strikes? That would worry me.

 

[fatjay]

Impressive room. Is the all that electronics protected from lightning strikes? That would worry me.

No, but lightning rod's are on my list, particularly for the garage. But everything is properly grounded, and there's a lot of tree's that are higher than the house.

 

[fatjay]

From a height perspective, that room is the basement of the far left side of the house.:

 

[fatjay]

New washer and dryer arrived today. I need to get the old ones out and put them in the front garage. But the bobcat is in the front garage, so that needed to move. The bobcat, with no engine.

I jacked the bucket on hte bobcat up and blocked it. Then I backed the kubota's pallet forks under the bucket and raised them. And I was greeted with a stream of hydraulic fluid from the front hose. So I stuck c clamps on the pallet forks and went to drag it. I promptly broke both c clamps in half. So I got a 10k lb rachet strap and wrapped it around the bucket and pallet fork frame to drag it. And that did work, only I had no steering as the front wheels were barely making contact with the ground. Gradually I drug it, slowly, to the back. It's not where I want it but it's out of the way for now.

So basically almost killed my kubota trying to move the bocat.

 

[airbiscuit]

If I'm ever in a Rube Goldberg competition, I want you on my team!

 

[EddieWalker]

I've learned that a big part of every project, is doing half a dozen small projects so I can get started on the project I really want to do.

 

[fatjay]

The washer is still in the basement. Apparently I can't drag a 300lb appliance up a flight of stairs. I got the dyer out, but it's much lighter. I'm going to have to put my thinking cap on.

 

[hayden]

You can pack the pipe with white bread to stop the water from coming out while soldering. They also sell a dissolvable foam type product that does the same thing as bread.

I keep a length of clear tubing in my soldering toolbox that fits inside half inch copper pipe. I either syphon the water out of the pipe, or I put the tubing as far in as I can, then plug the end of the tubing with my finger and pull the water out in the tubing.

If I'm lucky, they house I'm working on has an outside spicket that's lower than the water level and I can drain it that way.

I like the siphon idea. It sure is a pain when water keeps reappearing....

 

[airbiscuit]

The washer is still in the basement. Apparently I can't drag a 300lb appliance up a flight of stairs. I got the dyer out, but it's much lighter. I'm going to have to put my thinking cap on.

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