On 2/24/2014 5:00 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:18:14 -0500, KC wrote:


Averted a disaster the other night... Went down stairs about 10 pm to do
a load of laundry and noticed a seal had blown on the pressure guage on
my water system in the basement and was pouring what must have been a
gallon every couple minutes.. I must have found it less than ten minutes
in and capped it off before my basement flooded.. it was just one of
those things. If I had not done laundry that night, my house would be
****ed right now...


I have been fighting a new Hayward filter for my spa. This thing seems
to have some oversized 1.5" NPT hubs on it and you can't get a regular
male adapter to seal.
I have cut the plumbing open and replaced it about 5 times so far.
Last time I went with schedule 80 pipe nipples with 1/4" cut off the
end that I could run in a little farther than a regular fitting with
a shoulder on it and that seems to be working.



This stuff in a pinch is absolutly the most valuable tool in my plumbing
pouch. I keep one in the truck one in the camper.. etc.. the stuff will
work in any conditions, any time, any place, and I have a couple repairs
I did in Essex nearly 10 years ago that haven't dropped a drop till last
summer when I took the lengths of pipe out and replaced them....

http://www.lowes.com/pd_26668-66601-...ductId=1076397

Just get a pack next time you are out, it's like having a cool glue in
your drawer, it WILL come in handy someday...

On 2/24/2014 6:20 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:32:48 -0500, KC wrote:

On 2/24/2014 5:00 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:18:14 -0500, KC wrote:


Averted a disaster the other night... Went down stairs about 10 pm to do
a load of laundry and noticed a seal had blown on the pressure guage on
my water system in the basement and was pouring what must have been a
gallon every couple minutes.. I must have found it less than ten minutes
in and capped it off before my basement flooded.. it was just one of
those things. If I had not done laundry that night, my house would be
****ed right now...


I have been fighting a new Hayward filter for my spa. This thing seems
to have some oversized 1.5" NPT hubs on it and you can't get a regular
male adapter to seal.
I have cut the plumbing open and replaced it about 5 times so far.
Last time I went with schedule 80 pipe nipples with 1/4" cut off the
end that I could run in a little farther than a regular fitting with
a shoulder on it and that seems to be working.



This stuff in a pinch is absolutly the most valuable tool in my plumbing
pouch. I keep one in the truck one in the camper.. etc.. the stuff will
work in any conditions, any time, any place, and I have a couple repairs
I did in Essex nearly 10 years ago that haven't dropped a drop till last
summer when I took the lengths of pipe out and replaced them....

http://www.lowes.com/pd_26668-66601-...ductId=1076397

Just get a pack next time you are out, it's like having a cool glue in
your drawer, it WILL come in handy someday...

Since the leak was at the joint up against the filter housing, I am
not sure how tape would fix it.

I really wanted to fix it right anyway.


This stuff will mold around anything... just spend a couple bucks next
time you are in Lowes or similar and check it out. Open the pack and
play with it, you will see.

It's main capability is to form itself into one solid (seemingly) chunk
of patch as it sticks to itself and becomes part of itself as you wrap
it. It's also very stretchy so you can cross back and fourth and cover
even broken joints of different size tubing, etc...