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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 26, 2011 - 11:31pm PT
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Nice work folks!
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kennyt
Sport climber
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Aug 26, 2011 - 11:35pm PT
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That's some mean pussy
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john hansen
climber
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Aug 26, 2011 - 11:40pm PT
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This slab just seems to keep getting bigger. Next pour on monday will finish this one off,, Then one more building to go.
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Aug 27, 2011 - 01:00am PT
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An early Stug IV Assault Gun with zimmerit anti-magnetic mine paste from an Imperial Series kit by Dragon Models:
Stugs knocked out 20,000 Soviet tanks on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945.
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Bill Mc Kirgan
Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Any ideas on how to break a 2-inch lead pipe threaded into galvanized steel?
The lead has a -WRENCH or hex- end near the steel, but as I crank on it with a 2-foot long plumbing wrench it's collapsing the lead.
Do I heat one or the other, or both?
HELP!!!1111!1!
---edit to reply to Brandon, just down thread.
Thanks! Having never worked with lead pipe I was concerned about applying heat, but it was a moot point anyway.
I did the hazmat bit and set up a bucket and plastic and brushed and sprayed water until all the dust was gone from the threaded joint and then hosed it down with WD40.
The pipe is an old vent pipe for the kitchen sink, and where it went through the wall it was 2" lead. I wrapped this in duct tape to keep the lead chips confined and cranked on it again with the big wrench, and had a second wrench as counter-force. The pipe broke at the threaded joint and made it easy to do the next bit...apply some heat and break the galvanized steel elbow.
I just removed it and will replace with a new fitting.
Lead pipe is gone, and this was actually much more simple than I was thinking it would be.
Now I don't feel bad for the person who asked how to dry their rope on another thread. This is the same kinda thing.
Thanks Brandon for your common-sense advice and lack of sarcasm.
Plumbing demo is complete. The kitchen project can move forward.
Sometimes I hate my 100-year-old house, but it is a charming home.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Lube it up, heat it up, and put a pipe wrench on the opposing side.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Metallic lead isn't hazardous unless kinetically applied.
It's the oxides that are worrisome.
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rich sims
Social climber
co
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I have also been playing around with acid stains
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Sep 10, 2011 - 11:59am PT
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Onto the next project, here's the play structure. I love it, hope you do too.
Edit; the rebar railing system is a story unto itself.
Double Edit; the scribe work on the logs is to within a 64'th. I can't claim all of it, the best work was done by my co-worker, who is a true professional when it comes to logs and timberframing.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 10, 2011 - 01:18pm PT
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Nice work, Brandon. Thank heavens for rich people, eh?
Check out Bob the Crazy Hippy's work in Frisco, CO. He should write a book about
his battles with the zoning and building dept nazis.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Sep 12, 2011 - 12:09pm PT
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Reilly, not all rich folks are good clients, but these are! The log arbor upthread is at their home, and I'm now remodeling the kitchen in their 'buffer house'.
Swear to god, that's what they call it. It keeps the riffraff away from them and their minature donkeys, apparently.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 12, 2011 - 12:17pm PT
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I hear ya Brandon but them rich folk is the only ones buyin' these days.
Here's a kitchen I did for a guy's Pool House. You gotta bear in mind that
you needs a good kitchen in the Pool House when it is a 100 yard hike to the
main house. You could perish on the march, to paraphrase Gen Sherman.
The last cabinet is a fake. It hides a duct!
The last shot is the proper color.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Sep 12, 2011 - 01:13pm PT
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Geez Reilly, I got rid of my shaper years ago, scared the hell out of me.
To hide a duct or expose a duct, that is the question.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Sep 12, 2011 - 01:21pm PT
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Shaper?
I'm sure Reilly picked up all that stuff at the home depot.
;)
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2011 - 02:22pm PT
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Wow, I can't believe this started with a few adobes......
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mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Sep 12, 2011 - 02:42pm PT
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ric sims,
cool stains what type are you using?
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