On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:11:25 GMT, "Carl Byrns"
wrote:
"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
...

Oh, yeah. I should tell you about what I'm doing this weekend: snaking out
the tub drain, which is cast iron (yes, cast iron, not the welded-seam
galvanized steel stuff). Not fun. And then I have to hope the cast bronze
J-trap ($40 now for a direct replacement -- and the joint is a tapered,
machined joint that won't mate with anything else) fits back in properly.

I'd rather be ice fishing.


Ah, yes. Old house plumbing. I remember it well. A big part of why I sold my
1856 brick house 12 years ago. The nightmares have diminished over time.

-Carl (don't even ask about the 1949 Fairbanks- Morse oil furnace. I am the
world's leading authority on that alleged heating appliance)

This is why you have to know when an item is past the repairable
stage - time to give up, rip the whole mess out, and start over.

For furnaces, you patch it one last time to get to spring, then rip
the ******* out after the weather warms up a little.

-- Bruce --