To: metesky
I was a helper on a project in Mass years ago, cast iron DWV. If there had been another foot of head when we did the pressure test on the stink pipe all of the lead joints would have blown out.
60 posted on
08/23/2007 4:02:44 PM PDT by
Little Bill
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To: Little Bill
Lead joints, Bill? Now we're giving away our age, man.
One of my first jobs was laying water mains back before slip joints. Stuff the joint with oakum, heat lead bars in a portable rig, apply melted lead rigorously.
How are you, lad?
63 posted on
08/23/2007 5:45:36 PM PDT by
metesky
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