Aloha Shane, Congratulations and thank you for letting us know the rest of the story! Betsy At 05:42 PM 5/27/2007, you wrote:
>First, let me thank those of you who provided feedback. It was appreciated. >Now to the fun part. >This afternoon, I decided to implement the suggestion of using a baloon to >check for a gas leak at the point where a gas line was capped off. So I go >over to the house and think this should be easy, I can reach the cap from >the blower closet. That would be where the furnace/ac blower and evaporator >coil are. I get in the closet and sure shootin I can't reach the cap. It's >just barely out of my reach, about 2 inches back from a 90 degree turn in >the pipe. I really wanted to get this done, so time for a little >exploration. >The attic door is in the garage. A buddy of mine was with me, so after >moving a couple things out of the way, I get the door and stairs down. I go >into the attic and at first it looks easy. There's some plywood decking, so >I figure this should be straight forward. Decking runs out where the garage >ends and the house begins, so it's now time to balance on the beams. It took >me a while but with the assistance of my buddy talking to me in the closet, >I get there and put the baloon over the cap. He's got the duck (or is it >duct) tape so he secures the baloon after I get it completely over the cap. >He then goes back to the garage and talks to me so I can get back to the >opening. >I tell you, I didn't realize how quickly you can get hot. It's 75 degrees >outside and I still sweat like a pig up there. Hey, no need for exercise, >just crawl around in the attic for a while and you'll loose some weight. >Anyway, got back down and went outside to turn on the gas. Easy enough. Went >back in and checked the baloon. It didn't inflate as far as we could see. >Time for the next item, light the water heater. >I bought me one of those Bick lighters, the one where you hold down the >button and pull a trigger. Kinda looks like a little gun. The first few >times I tried lighting the pilot on the water heater, it didn't light. Don't >know how much time went by, but I finally got the thing to light. I found >out because I got a little too close to the poker and it was hot. Yeah, I >think it's lit now. Turn the heater to on and the burner fires up. Now, it >gets interesting. For a while there, the flame was jumping out about 6 >inches outside the heater. It would jump out, then go back in, jump out, go >back in. Every time it jumped out, you could hear a change in the sound. >Come to find out that air in the gas line was causing it to do this. After a >bit, it became stable. Since I'm not yet in the house, I put the heater on >pilot so as not to waste gas. Went back in for another check of the baloon, >still no change. Go to church and come back an hour or so later for another >check. Still no change. I'm guessing there's no gas leak. The baloon is >still up there. I'll probably take it down later. I'm not sure what's going >to be more fun, me telling my family what I did or letting them find the >baloon up there and the water heater lit and wondering how it came to pass. >My mother and her husband probably won't care, but if her husband's dad >found out, he'd probably give me an hour lecture on why I shouldn't have >done it. If they ask me, I thought about pulling a Bill Engvall here's your >sign on them, but might rethink that. What would you do? >Thought you would like to know how this came out. I know the message is >long, but had to post this. Hopefully someone else will get some benefit >from this. Let me know what you think. Later. > >Shane > > 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 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/
