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Everyday uses for PVC water pipe

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Re: Everyday uses for PVC water pipe

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Post by tobr »

supportengineer wrote: post #51
whartung wrote: post #21

Folks on YouTube cut, heat, and flatten PVC and then scratch build scale models out of it. This working excavator is rather extraordinary. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qam0DmWq_No&pp=ygUTcHZjIHBpcGU...

This is astounding. What I want to know is, how does one have that much free time?

Is it “free time” though when they post multiple videos per month and regularly have several million views?

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Post by bboygravity »

amluto wrote: post #9

Interestingly, plumbing your house with PVC water pipe is not a fantastic idea and is not allowed under most plumbing codes. The specific issue is that PVC loses strength at higher temperatures, so performance at household water pressures with household hot water is somewhat marginal. Manufacturers don’t rate their pipe at all above 140 degrees F. Having your pipe burst when you run hot water through it is undesirabl…

Copper is toxic to microbes, plastics are not.

Relevant for salmonella for example. This alone would be reason for me to just use copper.

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Post by jpm_sd »

whartung wrote: post #21

Folks on YouTube cut, heat, and flatten PVC and then scratch build scale models out of it. This working excavator is rather extraordinary. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qam0DmWq_No&pp=ygUTcHZjIHBpcGU...

This might be the craziest thing I have ever seen. How is this even possible? He doesn't measure or mark anything?? How can it fit together? How are the repeated parts so perfectly identical?

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Post by amelius »

whartung wrote: post #21

Folks on YouTube cut, heat, and flatten PVC and then scratch build scale models out of it. This working excavator is rather extraordinary. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qam0DmWq_No&pp=ygUTcHZjIHBpcGU...

Cool video except they left out all the steps necessary to reach the incredible precision.

This is not how engineers work.

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Post by VBprogrammer »

bboygravity wrote: post #63
amluto wrote: post #9

Interestingly, plumbing your house with PVC water pipe is not a fantastic idea and is not allowed under most plumbing codes. The specific issue is that PVC loses strength at higher temperatures, so performance at household water pressures with household hot water is somewhat marginal. Manufacturers don’t rate their pipe at all above 140 degrees F. Having your pipe burst when you run hot water through it is undesirabl…

Copper is toxic to microbes, plastics are not. Relevant for salmonella for example. This alone would be reason for me to just use copper.

This seems like borderline paranoia. Water travels potentially dozens of miles from the place where it is cleaned and treated with chlorine to kill bugs. The vast majority of that in non-copper pipes. The last few feet inside your house seems unlikely to change anything.

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Post by salawat »

syndicatedjelly wrote: post #5

My math teacher put a pvc pipe in a pool noodle and would slam it on student’s desks when they were caught dozing off Hope someone else remembers who that was too

History teacher preferred either iron pipe on the floor or hammers on his metal desk.

The spatially adjacent classrooms never failed to detect when someone was dozing.

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