Chris Lewis wrote:
According to Alan Smithee :
I've been ripping out a lot of old plumbing in the last little while
and now I've got a couple of dozen elbows with various lengths of
pipe in them. What should I do with this stuff? I've thought of
trying to reclaim the elbows by sweating the pieces apart but it
seems like a lot of work. I can't bear the thought of sending it to
the landfill. And I don't know if it would pay for the gas required
to drive it to a scrapyard either, but maybe that's the way to go.
Any ideas or projects that use old copper plumbing? Thx.

Sculpture, especially water fountains ;-)

[Our house was custom built by a plumber for himself. He obviously
had lots of extra bits and pieces, the antenna mast and all the
closet rods are copper pipe. So far our closet renovations have
practically paid for themselves in liberated copper pipe ;-)]

Scrapyards may pay as much as a buck a pound or so for copper. Some
"architectural scrap dealers" may pay more for useable fittings.

I've liberated modest amounts of more normal sized copper, and that
gets pulled apart, and slowly gets reused in new projects.

That gave me a great idea. I've always wanted an "outdoor" shower I can go
crazy and put in a bunch of extra spouts. A bit late in the year but why not
get it ready for spring. I've even got the shower fixture valve. Thanks