filtered water, new tubing, and don't have to use the needle nosed vice grips as a handle, hahaha Thanks for all your help Lenny.
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Lenny McHugh wrote: > Great job! the most important thing is that you now have filtered water. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 10:06 PM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] finally, the faucet is in > > > Hi folks; > I happen to be blessed with in laws that are most likely to say "I'll do > it for you." > When I struggle, (which I do not mind unless it seems like my worthiness > is gauged upon the sighted time scale) they say "let me do it, it will go > so much faster." > Then if I am not grateful at that point it breaks down into "then why are > you asking me? I won't help next time." > > So when find a great storm door for $500 they can get it for $195. When i > find a faucet on her for $21 they would say "but t's plastic crap." > Years and years of it have at times made me bitter; but now I can just > anticipate it. > So, when I couldn't find GI, I was told it was $49 at Low's. When Lenny > found it at Home Depot I was told it was junk. > I did ask bro in law to look at it and pick it up if it would work as I > didn't have much money and still have to be very careful. > The kid at Home Depot couldn't find it, but bro in law left the paper at > home and didn't have all the info Lenny gave me. > > Then the Ebay happy sis in law, (man, let's not go there, yum!) > found it on Ebay. > She set up a $20 bidding on it and that was half of the time i thought bro > in law was avoiding the facing of facts that he could have succeeded if he > took the Home Depot numbers with him and could get the thing if he did. > It arrived, it's chrome. > It's a water fall type. It had all the hardware, mounting plates, rubber > gaskets, washers, and heavy nut. It was ready to take the 4 ft of water > line tubing that came sealed with it. > So I got my kid and wife in line to do the "I yell to you, you yell to the > one at the shut off". > First I put new springs and seats in my Delta which was dripping. Then I > moved over to the filtered water faucet at that kitchen sink. > Getting it lose was a bit of a challenge as 18 years can make things stay. > But that came down after the tubing was free. I assured the new faucet > function by hooking to the old tubing and dispensing into a bucket, in > case I ran into trouble. > The old faucet came out, and the new one went in. > I took a chance that the new gromets bro in law provided would hold the > new tubing to the water filter. So I took the old after-tubing off > entirely. Tricky as it took much to secure that bit of tube. > Then the tube went up to the underside of the new faucet, and voila! > Both jobs were done in 2 hours. > It would have burned me if it were perceived that I couldn't do it upon > the insertion of some unexpected event. I worded that carefully. > So big thanks, especially to you Lenny! as I am thinking that sis in law > thought of looking on Ebay when bro in law said "i have to go back to Home > Depot with those numbers and hope they can find it this time; but I got > all I needed last time." (You know how that goes. > Thanks for all the stuff I read on here, thanks for the deeper detail when > i don't get something. > It's been a while since I made an improvement. It's done. > It's Done. > > > ------------------------------------ > > Send any questions regarding list management to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 > 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 > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following > address for more information: > http://www.jaws-users.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list > just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links > > > > > __________ NOD32 3383 (20080824) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > >
