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I hate plumbing!!!! #1
sheckwall Bill Stovall Klamath Falls,OR, USA 1979 MG MGB "Little Car"	Posted: October 09, 2006 06:42PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 762

AAAARRRRGGGG.....saturday night a pipe breaks under the kitchen floor...no crawlspace, it's on a slab. Had to tear out my base cabinets, jackhammer up the slab, and find the leak. Took today off to do it and thought that I was finished at about 2 o'clock....yippee!!! Turn on the water a little.....no leak!! a little more....no leak from where I made my repair.....but now one somewhere between the kitchen and laundry room.......I think that I could probably chew through the rest of the slab.....

Luckily the new leak is in the hot water feed....so at least we now can flush toilets and such.

Thank God for my B though.....It's amazing what a 15-20 drive can do for your spirits!!!

Oh well back to busting concrete.....

1979 MGB, 62,000 miles, 32/36 weber, patriot header, everything else stock

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Re: I hate plumbing!!!! #2
Naomi Naomi C Between Greensboro and Roanoke, USA 1964 MG MGB "Kirby" 1979 MG MGB "Bandit" 1980 MG MGB "Robbie" 1995 Mazda Miata Special Edition 2003 Jaguar S-Type	Posted: October 10, 2006 08:02AM Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 13,324

The hubby hates plumbing work so bad that he calls people he doesn't like "plumbers". They don't understand our little joke---opps until now smiling smiley

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"1980 MGB" (Robbie) Even though it's a RB it does have overdrive, a Weber Carb, and is my favorite MGB. We have logged thousands of happy miles together ~~

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Re: I hate plumbing!!!! #3
golf bernard lanigan montgomery al, USA 1976 MG MGB "The B"	Posted: October 10, 2006 03:44PM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 5,079

to me plumbing is not too bad compared with painting and woodwork,alse oi would rather rebuild an engine than do body work of any kind including waxing

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Re: I hate plumbing!!!! #4
NitroRustlerDriver Andrew Bird Bend, Oregon, USA 1970 MG MGB GT "Giget"	Posted: October 11, 2006 03:17PM Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 2,664

Digging is FAR worse then any other job. Try trenching 19" deep through volcanic rock and dirt in 90º weather. sad smiley

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Re: I hate plumbing!!!! #5
sheckwall Bill Stovall Klamath Falls,OR, USA 1979 MG MGB "Little Car"	Posted: October 11, 2006 11:31PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 762

I've been there Andrew....same type of soil down here as you have in Bend....I grew up thinking that a sledge hammer was a tool that everyone used when digging a ditch....

1979 MGB, 62,000 miles, 32/36 weber, patriot header, everything else stock

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Re: I hate plumbing!!!! #6
The Wiz Mike The Wiz Barnes STL, MO, USA 1969 MG MGB GT 1971 MG MGB GT "Blueberry" 1979 MG MGB "PopTop" 2000 Ford Ranger SC4x4 2001 Mercedes-Benz SLK 230 Kompressor	Posted: October 12, 2006 07:26AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 8,082

I'm plumbing at the moment too, installing a new radiator in the kitchen, messing with 80 year old iron pipe is not fun, it takes a 30" pipe wrench to get it apart!

Nulla tenaci invia est via

1971 MGBGT, overdrive, Limey relay and fuse kits, Rick Ingram struts all round, Jeff Schlemmer points distributor, mgccars.com alternator, Basil Adams camshaft and side cover, Eurospec tail lights, 1976 dashboard and console, 1999 Chevy cavalier seats, GM heater motor and fan with Ford 3 speed controller, Ford Merkur/Sierra parcel shelf, cruise control.

1979 B, Olds 215 engine with 1996 Landrover heads, Carter AFB, Camaro T5 gearbox, Limey relay kit, Rick Ingram struts all round, mgccars alternator, Jeff Schlemmer distributor with Petronix, Eurospec tail lights, cruise control, 99 Pontiac Sunfire seats.

1969 MGBGT, Miata seats, late centre console, apart from that it's stock!

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Re: I hate plumbing!!!! #7
sheckwall Bill Stovall Klamath Falls,OR, USA 1979 MG MGB "Little Car"	Posted: October 12, 2006 11:50PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 762

My stuffs about 60 yrs old but the plumber that put it in was nice enough to put everything really close together,some of it is even laying over each other.......don't have enough room between hot and cold to work on one without messing with the other.....enough to drive me crazy..

1979 MGB, 62,000 miles, 32/36 weber, patriot header, everything else stock

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Re: I hate plumbing!!!! #8
Jim K James A. Krasnansky Liberty, KY, USA 1970 MG MGB GT "Chloe" 1971 MG MGB GT "Roscoe" 1972 MG MGB "Camilla"	Posted: October 13, 2006 06:10AM Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 8,005

Hey! That's nothing! I went to the hardware and bought some pipe. Took it to Pete at the check-out.
"Know what this is?"
"Black ABS."
"Yup - know what it's for?"
"Uh-huh. Oh - Sorry..."

Jim K is a grease-stained wretch

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Re: I hate plumbing!!!! #9
JackMG Jack Lindler Greenville,SC, USA	Posted: October 13, 2006 08:28AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 14,904

I'd rather do ANYTHING around the house over plumbing. The screwed joints always leak when I think I'm finished. Sweated joints are fine (actually fun to me), it hose danged screwed connections.

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The Wiz Mike The Wiz Barnes STL, MO, USA 1969 MG MGB GT 1971 MG MGB GT "Blueberry" 1979 MG MGB "PopTop" 2000 Ford Ranger SC4x4 2001 Mercedes-Benz SLK 230 Kompressor	Posted: October 13, 2006 11:35PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 8,082

Compression fittings are the worst, I can never get the suckers to seal first time!

Nulla tenaci invia est via

1971 MGBGT, overdrive, Limey relay and fuse kits, Rick Ingram struts all round, Jeff Schlemmer points distributor, mgccars.com alternator, Basil Adams camshaft and side cover, Eurospec tail lights, 1976 dashboard and console, 1999 Chevy cavalier seats, GM heater motor and fan with Ford 3 speed controller, Ford Merkur/Sierra parcel shelf, cruise control.

1979 B, Olds 215 engine with 1996 Landrover heads, Carter AFB, Camaro T5 gearbox, Limey relay kit, Rick Ingram struts all round, mgccars alternator, Jeff Schlemmer distributor with Petronix, Eurospec tail lights, cruise control, 99 Pontiac Sunfire seats.

1969 MGBGT, Miata seats, late centre console, apart from that it's stock!

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Re: I hate plumbing!!!! #11
Jim K James A. Krasnansky Liberty, KY, USA 1970 MG MGB GT "Chloe" 1971 MG MGB GT "Roscoe" 1972 MG MGB "Camilla"	Posted: October 14, 2006 07:05AM Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 8,005

The Wiz Wrote:

Quote: Compression fittings are the worst, I can never get the suckers to seal first time!

I think flare fittings suck.

Jim K is a grease-stained wretch

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Re: I hate plumbing!!!! #12
sheckwall Bill Stovall Klamath Falls,OR, USA 1979 MG MGB "Little Car"	Posted: October 15, 2006 10:12PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 762

Finally got the thing fixed and after some hard thinking I think that the wife and I are going to pretty up this house and put it on the market.....we have never really liked this house and we are looking at putting a manufactured home on a lot with (my favorite part) a shop for me. I would prefer to build a house but that would be cost prohibitive.

Hope it all works out.....I would rather do improvements to a newer property than chase problems in an old one.

1979 MGB, 62,000 miles, 32/36 weber, patriot header, everything else stock

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