Good day, wherever you may be...
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Ben Okopnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 06:00:25PM -0500, Skip Gundlach wrote:
> > :{))═ So do soda bottles when they have way too much pressure.═ What's
> your
> > point? :{))
>
> *Poor choice for comparison, Skip. The fluid in the soda bottles may fly
> in all directions; the polyethylene - what the bottle itself is made of
> - just expands out from the point of failure. PVC actually shatters, and
> the pieces fly in all directions. Given their mass, they can do, and
> have done, serious damage and harm.
>
> *That's* my point. :)
> *
> Gotcha - just funnin', of course. The dry ice bombs that middle school
> pscience teachers do is fun, though!
>
> > Seriously, though, if there were Pex for sanitation (meet up with 1.5"
> > connections), it sounds pretty cool.
>
> First thing off Google:
>
>
> http://www.pexsupply.com/Wirsbo-Uponor-F1061500-1-1-2-AQUAPEX-100-ft-coil-4786000-p
>
> You probably don't need a 100' coil of it, but at ~$3/foot, that's not
> bad.
>
Indeed - at about half the price of the expensive hose.
>
> > As it's cuttable with a knife, how resistant is it to puncture?═
>
> [laugh] Give it a shot. Unless you're using a serrated knife, you'll
> still be at it next week. Even if you use a serrated knife, and you try
> it on that 1.5" pipe, you'll _still_ be there next week - it'll just
> slide off. The only hand tool that works reasonably well is one of those
> small, very sharp saws. Otherwise, PEX is a PITA to cut - which makes
> it awesome for protecting other stuff from chafe.
>
> If you've never actually played with PEX, take a look at it next time
> you're at Home Depot or whatever. It's one of those things that, if
> you're a liveaboard, will make your brain light up and seethe with all
> sorts of project ideas and "a-ha!" solutions and all kinds of future
> plans. :)
>
> I have, actually, in that the PVCish stuff which came with the boat wasn't
available any more (actually, not at all PVC but don't know what sort of
vinyl it is/was); it's what I've used with all the replacements I did for
supplies (and all-new for the salt water runs to both ends of the boat and
the kitchen (oops - galley!) sink pressure stuff.
> (clip)
>
> I'm not saying that you made a horrible choice and that "Flying Pig"
> will sink instanter unless you replace all your plumbing. :) I am saying
> that, if I ever had to do up a plumbing system, I don't see anything
> that even comes close (e.g., the "Sharkbite" fittings take a couple of
> seconds to install, require no glue, and there's pretty much no way that
> they'll leak.)
>
> Are the fittings you refer to sharkbite due to the anti-slip collar, or
are there different fittings of which I'm not aware for that pipe (didn't
see an exploded view on that website)? I don't think I'll pull out the
sanitation PVC just yet, but I have lots of fittings - and rather much pipe
- aboard for the 3/8 stuff which runs fresh and salt water throughout the
boat. The pipe is pex (or, at least, I THINK it is); the fittings are the
same as used on the original stuff aboard, and while not brass (they're
some sort of plastic), look about like this -
http://www.pexsupply.com/HydroPEX-450PX03-1-2-PEX-x-1-2-PEX-Brass-Compression-Coupling-13686000-p
-
and the compression end, if you don't put the hose through it, looks about
like a mushroom once mounted.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, or any of the other holiday greetings, if
this one doesn't fit.
L8R
Skip and crew, sweating in S. FL
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