Hall of hacks & pikers Photo's please.

[Wet_Boots]

You can always delete the photos, and add a boot shot, or even some onion rings.

[Darryl G]

Yeah, I could but it's good for amusement in any forum I think, lol.

[grassman177]

Originally Posted by WalkGood

If you have to cut a manifold to make repairs, you are working on an idiot's creation. Glued manifolds are made by sissy pikers with no future thought about repairs. Glue? What.... are you working in a nail salon? Threaded connections are how men make MANifolds. It's called a MANifold, not a girlyfold.



And who pays for you deciding to do extra work by splitting up manifolds into separate valve boxes?

i agree, i have a few manifolds that are easy to repair that are threaded and ihave made jsut a select few myself with that in mind!!

who pays, the customer of course. ihave to cut it apart anyhow, it is easier and makes more sense to split it up a bit and put in separate boxes! duH!

i have never had a customer think that was a "bad" idea, they are always thankful when i expalin it to them(if they are there)

[grassman177]

i wonder if the chairs where hard to sit it in?!!!!

[Wet_Boots]

Piker winterizing with a dinky compressor. Remove the end riser's nozzle to speed up the operation.

[DanaMac]

Originally Posted by Wet_Boots

Piker winterizing with a dinky compressor. Remove the end riser's nozzle to speed up the operation.

On some systems I will remove the last nozzle on the zone. Primarily zones that are on the narrow parkway strip between the sidewalk and street. A lot of these heads tend to be 5', 8', or 10' nozzles. And they take quite a while to allow the water through due to gpm design. So removing the last nozzle speeds up operation.

[greenmonster304]

Originally Posted by DanaMac

On some systems I will remove the last nozzle on the zone. Primarily zones that are on the narrow parkway strip between the sidewalk and street. A lot of these heads tend to be 5', 8', or 10' nozzles. And they take quite a while to allow the water through due to gpm design. So removing the last nozzle speeds up operation.

I do the same thing when I can
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[Wet_Boots]

I'm too lazy to do it unless it really saves time. Usually you can just push down a popup head and let the flow-by do the work.

[WalkGood]

Originally Posted by Wet_Boots

Someday, I want to connect the air to a water heater's drain valve.....

I actually thought about doing just that very thing before I figured to use the outside hose bibb pumping air through the inside copper system. But, I didn't want to muck up their hot water supply. Plus, with my luck the drain valve would probably leak after I touched it!

[FIMCO-MEISTER]

Originally Posted by Wet_Boots

I'm too lazy to do it unless it really saves time. Usually you can just push down a popup head and let the flow-by do the work.

That isn't just lazy it's d@mn lazy.