There is no way to swamp out the PVC pipe. The solar panels are 20 by 2 feet, and the solar panels bleed into the PVC pipe. The Panels are either glued or melted to the PVC pipe with a series of holes so they circulate the water through the panels. I'll have to get someone other than my wife to have a look at the PVC pipe where the panels meet the pipe to make sure I'm correct. ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. Terblanche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 10:43 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] solar heater
> None that I know of. Replace the pipes, it's easey enough. cut them > where the cracs stop, and use two pvc joins, a little sleave that fits > around the pipe, and pvc cement or pvc glue, adding two peaces of new > pipes for the cracked part. Leave for about 12 hours before allowing > water to flow through again. > Matthys > > Brice Mijares wrote: >> Yesterday I hooked up my solar heater for my swimming pool as the day >> time >> temps have been in the 80's out here. After hooking it up and turning >> the >> pump on I heard water leaking. So I called my wife out to see where it >> was >> leaking. At the top end of the panels there is a piece of PVC pipe, >> being >> that I have to panels, I have 2 PVC pipe joined together by a thick piece >> of >> rubber hose with hose clamps on them. Any way, both pieces of PVC pipe >> have >> a crack in them. I guess I didn't get the water out of them before >> winter >> set in and the water must have froze and expanded and crack the PVC pipe >> along the length. How long the cracks are I didn't ask at the time. My >> question to the list members is as follows. Is there any kind of epoxy >> that >> I can put over the crack that will hold under pressure? If so, please >> state >> the name of the epoxy. Thank you >> >> >> >> >> To listen to the show archives go to link >> http://acbradio.org/handyman.html >> or >> ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ >> >> The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. >> http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday >> >> The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. >> http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml >> >> Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various >> List Members At The Following address: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ >> >> Visit the new archives page at the following address >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man >> list just send a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/lOt0.A/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/86xolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
