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What causes the sound of a dripping tap—and how do you stop it?
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| 22 June 2018
Posted on 06/23/2018 9:15:31 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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Try a washerless faucet, or wrap a towel around it.
Call a plumber.
If I was any dumber, I could have been a plumber! (Apologies to my plumber S I L)
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:15:31 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
“What causes the sound of a dripping tapand how do you stop it?”
It makes an excellent means of torture. Democrats would object though.
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:18:16 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Most faucets have cartridges that are fairly easy to replace. Your faucet cartridges is leaking.
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:19:28 AM PDT
by
deadrock
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:20:50 AM PDT
by
Ciaphas Cain
("Progressivism" is as every kind of evil: it can never create, only corrupt and destroy.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
BTW, depending on the make of your faucet it may be problematic.
Fischer is the worst...there Chinese cartridges change all the time so you may not be able to find a replacement.
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:21:20 AM PDT
by
deadrock
To: deadrock
Glacier Bay too. Cheap stuff.
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:24:33 AM PDT
by
patro
To: DUMBGRUNT
Uh, you replace the washer.
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:26:44 AM PDT
by
dinodino
To: DUMBGRUNT
It takes a government grant and years of study followed by another government grand and more years of study.
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:28:16 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: DUMBGRUNT
I must be a simpleton. Thinking the sound was from the drop hitting the bottom of the sink, or something in the sink, was sufficient for me.
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:28:16 AM PDT
by
TheZMan
(I am a secessionist.)
I wonder how much grant money Cambridge sucked up to figure that out?
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:28:26 AM PDT
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
To: bgill
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:28:48 AM PDT
by
TheZMan
(I am a secessionist.)
To: dinodino
Uh, unless its washerless like 90% of modern fixtures.
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:28:55 AM PDT
by
antidisestablishment
( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:29:29 AM PDT
by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
To: DUMBGRUNT
If you need to stop the sound of a drip from driving you crazy but you can’t get it fixed right away, letting it drop into a Chore Boy scouring pad will silence it.
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:30:29 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: DUMBGRUNT
Self-sufficient men fix it by replacing the cartridge or washer. Liberals fix it by calling a plumber.
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:31:15 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Did ANYONE read the article?
To: DUMBGRUNT
Ahhhh...the topic I’ve waited years for - since 1998 - on Free Republic...the mystery of the dripping faucet.
Now I’m considered “edumacated”....;^D
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:33:39 AM PDT
by
FrankR
( Winners NEVER cheat, and Cheaters NEVER win.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Call your congressman. Chew his ass. It won’t fix it along with anything else they do but atleast you can berate an idiot.
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:34:06 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
The scientists were not trying to fix a faucet. They were simply trying to find the mechanism that results in the sound of dripping water.
And they found it. Is that useful information? Probably not but you never know. That just how science works. The scientists discover a phenomenon and the engineers find a way to use it to build useful gadgets.
So enough of the snarky one liners that I personally just skip over. Way too much of that on FR these Days.
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:35:54 AM PDT
by
InterceptPoint
(Ted, you finally endorsed. About time)
To: Vermont Lt
Did ANYONE read the article?
Shirley you jest.
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posted on
06/23/2018 9:36:30 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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