Re: Today, the kitchen faucett fix...was: Re: To SRC regulars....



On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Russell.Martin@xxxxxxx wrote:

Straydog wrote:
And, reply to Russell, see below...

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Russell.Martin@xxxxxxx wrote:

Straydog wrote:
On Tue, 27 Feb 2006, Russell.Martin@xxxxxxx wrote:

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Another one, made for TV, was "Max Headroom" all about a guy who got
captured inside a computer (don't ask how that is possible, but parallels,
I guess, with "Tron") but it had a lot of sardonic parallels with the
foibles and failures of modern society, too.


I loved "Max Headroom".

So did I.

Too bad it didn't have a longer
run,

A lot of the stuff wife & I watch (PBS stuff)...whenever we find something
we like, it seems like the take it off the program after only a few runs.
tsk, tsk.

along with "Dinosaurs".

Cheers,
Russell



Today, I'm fixing the leaky faucett in the kitchen. Don't buy Pfister
("Pforever"), the stuff is crap.

Thanks for the warning.

The lifetime leakproof faucett started
leaking after one year.

I bought a new Delta faucet for the kitchen in my
previous house, and there were brass shavings from
the milling process that prevented installing the
aerator properly.

Any idea where the stuff is made (I alsway look at that)? China, Mexico? Some of the stuff is OK, other stuff from those places is crap.

But the company shipped me
new parts.

You can't get those complicated expensiive inserts
at the hardware store where they have all the other complicateed expensive
inserts. And, the plumber who installed all this stuff put pipe joint
compound (I still can't believe it) on all kinds of surfaces that are not
supposed to get this stuff (the only places you use pipe joint compound
are on threads on iron pipe [or you use that teflon tape]). All the
interfaces (plastic) on what we have are handled by compression
fittings, "O" rings, or special washers. The sink drain started leaking a
year ago, and he put pipe joint compound between two metal surfaces
without threads! Should have been a rubber washer. Where did he put the
rubber washer? At the interface between the under the sink flange and the
big nut that screws up from the underside on the neck of the "funnel." It
did not make sense.

Don't get me started on plumbing repairs. Remember I was
taking a break from one of those jobs the day we met for
lunch.

Yah you needed a dryer or washer, and I had a dryer in my garage you could have had for free (just blow the dust off it). :-)

I'm back from the plumbing supply house, just now. Little dumb plastic things are 1.75 each, look like they could be made in the USA for a dime, Mexico for a penny, or a peso.

Cheers,
Russell


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