What are my options for fixing this chewed up drip irrigation setup?
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:15:16 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D."
wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:31:16 -0500, Natural - Smoking Gun - Girl wrote:
those glued pvc sections come apart after being exposed to the weather
elements day after day.
Hmmm... they're not supposed to.
I've had one fail. Fixing 3/4" PVC the end cap blew off. I can only
guess that ~500 gallons of water flooded the back yard that night. It
was still dirt from construction before lawn turf was installed. It
took a couple weeks for the mud hole to dry out.
Lesson learned. With fast set cement, insert the pipe into the
fitting, give it a quarter turn twist and hold for ~ 10-15 seconds.
Works for me and no more fitting failures.
Slow set cement; it is easy for the them to fail.
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