On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:46:18 -0500, "Steve Barker"
wrote:

Not to mention the little buggers are 10 semolians each! A "T" and 12" of
pipe are a lot better.

I wanted to build it myself, but it would have been really difficult
to install in this application.

I've never known them to become waterlogged as
others here have suggested.

I've heard that happens. I'm too young for it to have happened to me.


Hmmm, even the webpage you gave,
http://www.plumbingsupply.com/waterhammerarresters.html

gives a picture of an arrester with a piston inside.

I don't think they would do all the things they do -- this is just one
method -- to keep the water separated from the air if the air didn't
get absorbed by the water.

Hmmm. For the laundry mini-rester, which is a lot like I have, they
now want 20 dollars each. I wonder if my retirement account allows
for inflation!



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