What did you do today?

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I never thought of drilling the fittings.
I just measure one of my fittings and it's 3/16 of an inch.
I think I need to upgrade my fittings in my hose. What I have works with my brad nailer and my quarter inch senco stapler....... but wow, that's an awakening.
Thats like using a 40 foot, 16 gauge cord on my edger sander.

My Makita compressor has locations for two hair chucks
I need to upgrade mine and switch one of them to a larger diameter.

 

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And I've never heard of a high flow fitting. Damn, I like this place. Much appreciated.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

Roofers on my house used 4 small (maybe 1/4”)highly flexible hoses on a junky gas Rollie compressor for their nailers, blasting 8 nails per shingle. I have an Edco ALR 5 chisel scaler that needs @ 8 cfm. When I used it years ago the rental center didn’t have one that size. Now they do. My scabblers (3/4” hoses)need 160 cfm 140psi minimum, a tow behind compressor. Avoiding lack of pressure and volume is why we don’t want to get underpowered compressors, $$$ is suppressing my goals.

drilling fitting thinning the wall of piping could be dangerous if the fitting splits apart propelling across a room. I have 1/2 “ hoses that are difficult to find fittings for.

 

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It would be neat if somebody made a shut off valve that you can connect to your compressor. When it senses super high volume like a hose disconnect it would immediately shut off the flow.
They have stuff like that for water systems in homes. Water in homes causes leaks and damage but an air hose whipping around the room at 500 ft per second could actually hurt somebody.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

Yeah I bought some toilet water supply lines like that a couple years ago. Not sure if Lowe’s still carries them.

 

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Ones that shut off water flow?

 

[C.J.]

Ones that shut off water flow?

Yep. We had some for our washing machine. We also had one on the dishwasher but that made it not work properly. The repair man came out and switched the supply line to a regular one and told us that the dishwasher pulls too much water too fast and the supply line thought is was a leak and kept shutting the flow off.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

Yes, I’ll check my trailer to see if I have 1 left. I looked around for supply lines that don’t have a plastic connector to tank, a no brained to make them of metal but couldn’t find any. One lady thought someone was pressure washing their house late at night only to find the house flooded out when she got up. It had cracked. If there’s too much side pressure when connecting due to length that’s just one reason they break.

 

[C.J.]

Some new houses now have moisture sensors they strategically place, behind a toilet or dishwasher, and if they sense moisture they shut off the flow of water to the whole house. Kinda smart.

 

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Some new houses now have moisture sensors they strategically place, behind a toilet or dishwasher, and if they sense moisture they shut off the flow of water to the whole house. Kinda smart.

If I was building a new house I'd probably go off a deep end and have a sheet metal outfit make a metal pan that will fit on the floor underneath the sink and the dishwasher. The money it is cost people and insurance companies over the years because of a simple leak that couldn't be seen could be easily prevented. Same thing if you had a closet with a washer and dryer. Leave out the underlayment and install a metal pan the same thickness under the appliances.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

I prefer floor drains everywhere.

 

[C.J.]

They have flood pans for dishwashers, washing machines and hot water heaters. They are great for drips and slow leaks. If a supply line goes they will likely be over whelmed.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

Here it is. I only use them for people I like.

 

[zannej]

My brain isn't processing most of the discussion. I saw something about aluminium melting and it had me wondering at what temperature aluminium would sublimate (go directly from solid to gas).

Feeling tired. Since post office was only open between 10am to noon I had to go in to get mail early. Walked through the door with arms full of packages. Cat jumped on top of the packages, slipped, started to fall, and then was hanging from one of the boxes while I tried to shake him loose. I need to go to the grocery store but am not feeling it. The heat sucks and I feel tired.

My train of thought just derailed. LOL.

 

[havasu]

The flood safe hoses don't work with front load washers. First surge of water, they shut off. I returned mine to the big box store, saying it was defective.

 

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Here it is. I only use them for people I like.

That's interesting I've never heard of one of those.
.... I stand corrected I just heard of one.

 

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They don't make commercials like this anymore but I wish they did.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

Some washer hoses have dates on them, near 10 years old I put on my paperwork and verbally tell customers to replace. Sometimes I do it voluntarily. Whenever something isn’t quite right it’s on paperwork.

I’m really tired of rickety crap, dryer vent ducts, broken toilet flanges, valves that don’t shut.

 

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Some washer hoses have dates on them, near 10 years old I put on my paperwork and verbally tell customers to replace. Sometimes I do it voluntarily. Whenever something isn’t quite right it’s on paperwork.

I’m really tired of rickety crap, dryer vent ducts, broken toilet flanges, valves that don’t shut.

The same way here, if I see something the customer knows about it even if it has nothing related to floor covering. I know a lot of people of electrical outlets that are loose. Sometimes a ground plug will hold something into a loose plug and make it feel tight. When I plug in one of my tools into a plug-in and it will hardly stay there I try to scare them to death with visions of fire and flames. Poured a heart for my wood stove and that night the heater would not come on. Over the next few days I'd taken the brains out of my forced air furnace and took it to a local heating shop. They said it tested out fine.
I needed to get some heat in the living room so I put a space heater on my new hearth, and the side of the safest place to plug it in would be my old range.... Remember the ones that had the plug-in built into the upper half of the range where the knobs were? Anyway I figured this was the safest place to plug it into. Half an hour later for some stupid reason I reached over and checked out the plug to be sure it was tight and it was hot. I pulled the plug out of the outlet and the plastic was so soft that I can squeeze it and make the metal plugs wiggle back and forth.
After it cooled off I plugged it into the outlet that was directly behind where my wood stove was going to go. Half hour later switched on high it was ever so slightly warm.
Anyway when I see an outlet that has a loose connection, I promptly let the homeowner know not to hook a space heater up to that outlet and explain why. We notice those things and sometimes because we're the new guys in the house. The homeowner is either used to this or it's on a place they never look like you mentioned, with the washing machine hoses and the dryer vents. They never see that stuff.
I went up to visit my mother in Vancouver at Christmas time many many years ago and we decided to do some weatherization stuff inside. Cold air was coming up through the cavity in the wall with the fawcetts to the washer. When I took a peek back to look at it one of the hoses had a bubble about the size of a dime. I don't think it would have lasted another week if not just a day.
It's a benefit to us too because what a homeowner sees you bring up stuff like that they know that you care about their home. It's a win-win.

 

[Floorist]

Was putting underlayment and vinyl in a kitchen, When I unplugged the electric stove, fire shout out of the outlet. Tenant was in a wheelchair, so I did not plug it back in. I explained it to her and she was grateful. Not so, the landlord. She refused to pay me. She said I should have plugged it back in anyway. The electrician who fixed it did not get paid either.