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Old thread, but useful info for me as my Drake's handle failed in the same way as all the others. I've put a dab of grease in the pocket and it is working for now. I tried to buy a replacement off Amazon, but I would up with the wrong part. I'll track a plastic replacement one down at Home...

Even when the water is not flowing through the U/V sterilizer, there is a continuous column of water for the bacteria to move around in. Giardia and cryptosporidium actually actively swim. Bacteria will move around by diffusion. This can put live baddies on the clean side of the sterilizer...

So a bit more research reveals that these pumps are made of a plastic called Acetal, also known as Delrin. Aside from various laudable properties, it cannot be solvent welded. It can be glued with epoxy and PU. Neither of which I would consider ideal. I can't believe that there are no...

I am plumbing the priming system for my cottage pump. I have a "guzzler" style Chinese knock-off diaphragm pump. I will need to go from the pump inlet fitting to the rest if the plumbing, and from the outlet to a vinyl discharge hose. The fittings look to be 3/4 gray PVC. It seems like a 3/4...

It looks like 3 tap-con screws holding down the brass ring. This is a totally amateur opinion: I would say that you could loosen up the tap-con screws, and carefully bend back the lead enough to free up the brass ring. Then shim the brass ring up to be level, or closer to level, and fill the...

That looks like a lead bend to me. Is it poured right into the slab so you can't access from underneath at all?

Thanks all. My pump does have a foot valve, so once it's primed it will stay primed week after week, even with intermittent -- 1 hour a week -- running. The issue is priming it when it loses its prime -- yearly at least and sometimes if it sits for a long time or when the foot valve gets some...

I posted some of the details about my jet pump installation in another thread. It is set up to draw from a lake and pump sits only about 4 ft above lake level. Even so, priming is a PITA. I have been thinking a bit about simplifying priming it. My scheme is to plumb in one of those cheap...

I have a 3/4 HP jet pump installed in a seasonal cottage. It pulls water from a lake via a 1-1/4 polyethylene hose. The pickup hose has to be disconnected and removed from the lake each winter due to freezing and ice movement. At the moment, the poly hose is connected via a steel hose barb...

Does this pan need more than just a mortar bed to support it, like you would put under a bathtub?

HJ, you gotta get some glasses. That's copper. It does not look at all like freeze damage. Freeze damage bursts the pipe outwards.

Nice. Doug Fir makes beautiful floors, 'specially the tight-grained old-growth. I am envious.

I'm curious what's off to the right in your first picture. Is there another fixture or something that might me more amenable to the DW drain? You might find a suitable drain saddle tap that could be fitted in a more convenient location on a standard tailpiece. The ones I've seen are for R-O...

Heck they used lead acetate as a SWEETENER in cooking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%28II%29_acetate

I think you want to avoid using a regular outside fit flange and a repair coupling as they will not fit as closely as you need. A 3-inch street flange (one that is fits into a 3-inch hub and is the same O/D as the 3-inch pipe) in a 3-inch repair coupling will give you an extra-tall outside-fit...

Did you unscrew the aerators and clean all the crap off the screens? Blocked aerators is pretty common after a plumbing change.

I do not believe it is a given that the lead bend has to be replaced. If it is sound, the brass ring can be re-attached after the floor is built. It is also reasonable to simply peen over the lead -- it does not have to be soldered, and may not originally have been soldered. If you keep your...

This help?

I realise you're getting mixed signals on that score. My opinion (and do not confuse this with advice) is that a total tear-out is not warranted. Most of the copper drain that is accessible here is vent, and I doubt very much that anything is likely to go wrong with it, even in another 50...

The only thing I would recommend is ensuring you have a good serviceable trap adapter on that drain before you close anything in. The present trap arm is soldered onto the copper and you will find it very difficult to adjust it when it come to fitting a new sink. Cut it off now and fit a new...