Mundane News

[Illaveago]

I've been under the kitchen sink for most of the day removing the broken kitchen tap. Standardisation ! Huh! . I had to go and buy a new one as they don't sell that model in this country any more. We are getting refund.
It is a strange break ! It looks like it was a soldered joint until you look inside it and see that it was a copper tube. The joint is further down at the base.
I had to go and buy some extra fittings so that I could connect up the new one.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Probably brazed together.

 

[Lullabelle]

I was at the doctors today to get a prescription for meds for an ear infection

The surgery employs 2 ex-paramedics who deal with stuff that doesn't require a doctor, great idea as more people are seen although a doctor has to sign the prescription, only had to wait a couple of miutes.

 

[Illaveago]

The corrosion had gone all the way round as if it had been joined there. There was no sign of a joint on the inside of the tube so why it corroded in that way is very odd.
I will have to take the new one off and swap it round as the hot and cold are the wrong way round.

 

[Andy in Germany]

The surface of the tables for our meeting were chipboard, sanded and varnished.

It looked like they were made of porridge.

 

[classic33]

The corrosion had gone all the way round as if it had been joined there. There was no sign of a joint on the inside of the tube so why it corroded in that way is very odd.
I will have to take the new one off and swap it round as the hot and cold are the wrong way round.

Cold on the right-hand side?

 

[MikeG]

I've been under the kitchen sink for most of the day removing the broken kitchen tap. Standardisation ! Huh! . I had to go and buy a new one as they don't sell that model in this country any more. We are getting refund.
It is a strange break ! It looks like it was a soldered joint until you look inside it and see that it was a copper tube. The joint is further down at the base.
I had to go and buy some extra fittings so that I could connect up the new one.

Hmmmmm.

Copper is soldered. Has it broken in the casting of the tap itself (in which case what you are thinking is copper is going to actually be brass), or is it the pipes leading to the tap which are broken (in which case they will be copper)?

 

[Katherine]

I was at the doctors today to get a prescription for meds for an ear infection

The surgery employs 2 ex-paramedics who deal with stuff that doesn't require a doctor, great idea as more people are seen although a doctor has to sign the prescription, only had to wait a couple of miutes.

Hope you feel lots better soon.

 

[Lullabelle]

Hope you feel lots better soon.

Thank you, the fever has subsided, the spray is working so the itching is calming down, just want the smell to go away

 

[colly]

I'm trying to concentrate on work and writing a my dissertation, while my home country (admittedly viewed from half a continent way so vision is a bit blurred) seems to be having a nervous breakdown.

It is a very odd feeling.

Storm in a teacup. BIG teacup mind.

 

[classic33]

Storm in a teacup. BIG teacup mind.

How big?

 

[Andy in Germany]

How big?

Huge, in fact: Titanic...

 

[classic33]

Huge, in fact: Titanic...

Ordinary Mars bar used for scale.

 

[Illaveago]

Cold on the right-hand side?

Yes it looks that way from the outside looking in.

 

[classic33]

Yes it looks that way from the outside looking in.

Inside out?