Tuesday randomness
- Up before 0700hrs (”What does the Oh stand for? Oh God it’s early!”) as Puggle was restless so he may as well be fed breakfast and not wake anyone else up.
- After breakfast, turn off the water, replace washer in tap (it had been wasting water, annoying me, and annoying me during the night). Again. Need to find better washers or a better seating tool. Or a new tap.
- Turn on the water, discover that with the mains tap on almost full the bathroom tap outputs water faster than the bathroom sink can drain. Puggle is attempting to turn off the bathroom tap, somehow it reminds me of The Sorceror’s Apprentice.
- Discover that the bathroom lacks a floor drain (or someone installed a barrier between the main floor and the shower drain). Either way, mopping is necessitated to contain the flood to the bathroom. Tap now only drips minimally. Turn mains tap down 5 turns or so.
- Puggle wants to put his AppleWorks clip art creations on a blog for other people to see. And write music. His ‘typing of search terms’ skill has been translated from YouTube to the AppleWorks on-line clip art library, which is kind of cool.
- Inspired by the early morning productivity, catch the bus to work, with a nice walk from the Hospital in a continued attempt to up my energy expenditure for the week.
- SF@Pub. Meet new folks. Eat black pudding (not bad) for the first time. Have dinner with a snake, for the first time.
Tags: appleworks, black_pudding, clip_art, good_morning_vietnam, plumbing, Puggle, snake
February 27th, 2008 at 6:27 am
I have a tap reseating tool you can borrow - the catch is that using one is tricky, you need to be very careful, or you’ll make the surface rougher (or worse, cut down through all of the seating surface so you need to replace the tap).
As for washers, the ones I use are the O-ring ones - they are mostly brass, including the face, with an O-ring set into a groove on the face of the washer. There’s a tiny hole with a channel to let water inside the washer body to the back of the O-ring, so the pressure keeps it pressed to the seating surface.
February 27th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Thanks, is your reseating tool one that fits in a power drill?
Have tried both the nylon washers and the brass ones with o-rings, although I’m not sure the ones I’ve currently got have the hole in the face. Will get some for next time as it probably won’t be long
February 27th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
A power drill? God no, that sounds pretty vicious. It’s a hand tool, you screw the surround into the tap, then there’s a central insert with a handle that you turn to scrape the tap seat, with a depth limit that you (very gradually) advance until you’ve taken off a clean layer all around. The depth limit keeps the tool level, and allows for a smooth finish.
February 27th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Ah, the plumber uses one that fits on a power drill
My one has a little sandpaper disc on one end, which gets wet and wears out pretty quickly. Others at Bunnings have solid metal ends that look like turrets with triangular ‘teeth’ by the looks of them, which might be a bit more robust.
Maybe I should just encourage Puggle not to keep turing on and off the tap.