On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Ben Okopnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 07:03:52AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > > > My last boat had pvc sanitation plumbing, I thought it worked great. I > had no > > problems with it, Is there a reason it's not used in boats? > > PVC shatters when stressed - say, by having a heavy object drop on it > (a.k.a. "catastrophic failure", a.k.a. "your entire water supply in your > bilge".) Hose doesn't shatter - but it can be punctured or cut > relatively easily. PEX has the advantages of both (i.e., it is both > flexible like hose and allows you to use elbows, etc., like PVC) while > not having the disadvantages of either (won't shatter, very hard to > damage accidentally.) > > Now that PEX is available at the average hardware store, I can't see any > reason to ever use anything else on a boat. Manufacturers should have > been doing it for the past 20 years. > > > Ben Pex sanitation??? Sounds great - but I'm not going to take out what I have put in :{)) Meanwhile, as to shattering on impact, I invite you to go purchase a couple of couplings and a stick of 1.5" pipe, make up the joints, and then take a hammer (sledge, too, if you want) to it and report the progress :{)) (or, at least, my attempts to prove the fragility of S40, let alone S80, 1.5" pipe, have worn me out without success) L8R Skip, wishing all a Merry Christmas, whether ashore or at sea -- Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog The Society for the Preservation of Tithesis commends your ebriated and scrutible use of delible and defatigable, which are gainly, sipid and couth. We are gruntled and consolate that you have the ertia and eptitude to choose such putably pensible tithesis, which we parage. >>Stamp out Sesquipedalianism<<
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