Actually Max I doubt you would have had a flood. More likely it would fill to the overflow stem pipe and run down through the pipe and on out through the toilet bowl. It is odd though that the plastic ball would have cracked like that. You would have wasted a lot of water too and in the country that probably means a well and pressure pump and stress on the septic bed.
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Max Robinson To: Blind Handyman Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 5:28 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Toilet Blowout. Yesterday I was moving some tools and a tool chest from the house to my new shop. I came back in after moving the chest and heard a roaring sound from the bathroom. It was like the toilet filling up but louder. I took the top off the tank and found the water level was almost to the top and rising fast. I flushed the toilet and investigated where the water was coming in. The plastic float valve had cracked and there was no stopping the water. There isn't a shut off valve on the toilet. I got the meter shut off tool, flushed the toilet again and ran out to turn off the water. Sue was at the radio station answering phones for their fund drive. I called her and told her we had an emergency and she needed to come home. While she was on the way home I bailed out the tank, a turkey baster comes in handy for that, and took the old valve out. We made a trip to the hardware store, me in my t-shirt and sweat band. We got exactly what we needed, a new float valve, made of plastic of course, and costing 10 dollars, took it back home and installed it. Today no leaks have shown up and it's working fine. It must have blown out only a few seconds before I came back into the house. Much longer and we would have had a major flood in our bathroom. This time luck was on our side. Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
