On Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 7:49:34 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 19:08:32 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03
wrote:
On Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 9:44:10 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 18:05:39 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03
wrote:
On Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 8:24:15 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On 3/6/2021 7:47 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 11:31:58 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03
wrote:
Since I'm sprucing up the bathroom, I figured I might as well get a nice new
supply line for the toilet.
Remember when a half gallon of ice cream suddenly shrunk to 1.75 qts and even 1.5 qts for some brands? Apparently the plumbing industry took notice.
Here's my old 12" supply line compared to the new 12" supply line.
https://i.imgur.com/QYEh8I9.jpg
Guess how much more supply line I need to tighten up the connection?
Seems to be consumer fraud to me.
Dumb question: what are the actual measurements. I suspect the total
length of the new one is 12" and the old one is 12" between the connectors.
Wrong on both counts. :-)
The total length of the old one in 12.75". The total length of the new one is 12.25".
Neither of them are 12" between the connectors, but since the connectors are the
same size (~.75" and ~.5") the length of the braided portion is different by the
same .5" as the overall length.
So it is like the 2x4.
Amazon carries a 12" fill tube where the specified product length is 12.75". I almost
ordered it, but I wanted the toilet back in operation today. I just got back from Lowe's.
The 16" fill tube works (and looks) just fine.
I didn't measure it before installation, so don't ask. ;-)
You wouldn't be the only one to make this mistake.
Well, in this case it wasn't a mistake. If the old 12" supply line fit, and the new one was
only short by a 1/2", I was pretty sure that whatever actual length the 16" fill tube was,
it would fit.
I meant the 12". I sure wouldn't have measured the fill line, though
may have noticed that it was pretty tight.
I guess it was pretty tight...it didn't leak. ;-)
I installed it 20+ years ago. No way I remember if I was concerned about the length
back then. For all I remember, maybe it was the one from the original toilet I replaced
when I was rebuilding the bathroom back then. An errant sledge hammer swing while
taking out a wall sent that one to the landfill.
This time, I just figured a 12" fill line was a 12" fill line, so I bought a 12" fill line.
Who'd a thunk there is no standard for a 12" fill line.
If I had more time, I would have hired an engineer to draw up a set of fully dimensioned
plans and provide 27 eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and
a paragraph on the back back of each one explaining what each one was to be used
for, but I really wanted to get the toilet back in service today.
Use Sketchup! ;-)
Or you could have just put it out for government contract.
I was getting tired of the alternative.
https://i.imgur.com/B8b5MX7.jpg
Isn't the woodcraft catalog a little "scratchy"?
Woodsmith magazine.
I only read it for the centerfold...err...umm...I mean the articles.