waiting at merchants

[fuzzy]

I HAVE FITTED LARGE BORE COPPER - OR SO I THOUGHT! 108mm! goodness me, why copper? ive fitted and welded and screwed and other techniques on steel and galvo but not copper.
did they do a spring for it?

 

[ocentric]

My merchant only serves trade customers - Williams on the south coast. I used to go mad standing behind a DIYer at Grahams...

 

[REDSAW]

i dont, i think its a good laugh for the day listening to people who havnt a clue, then go home and try and fix what they had bought. if only i was a fly on the wall.

reminds me of the story on here before xmas,

the old boy at b&q, got to the counter with some bits that he forgot to buy the day before, he was saying to the tillier he bought a inderect cylinder yesterday to replace his 35 year old one and took him over 2 hours to remove the foam packaging.............

 

[quality]

i dont, i think its a good laugh for the day listening to people who havnt a clue, then go home and try and fix what they had bought. if only i was a fly on the wall.

reminds me of the story on here before xmas,

the old boy at b&q, got to the counter with some bits that he forgot to buy the day before, he was saying to the tillier he bought a inderect cylinder yesterday to replace his 35 year old one and took him over 2 hours to remove the foam packaging.............

good one that

 

[oldplumber]

my main merchant has a great system, if theres a load of sheep at the counter, pop round the counter and see your rep at his desk for service and coffee, the great british public dont like it but they have not got accounts so have to pay at a till lol

Screwfix have also got it right, some stores have their own plumbfix counter for the trade and you dont have to mix with the flock of sheep. Better still lol at those plumbers/builders who havent got the nouse to ask for a plumbfix account standing in line with the rest of the flock.

 

[Plouasne]

I HAVE FITTED LARGE BORE COPPER - OR SO I THOUGHT! 108mm! goodness me, why copper? ive fitted and welded and screwed and other techniques on steel and galvo but not copper.
did they do a spring for it?

Believe it or not a soil stack in my house I was building, I wanted a corner branch to pick up 2 W/C's, and Grahams in Liskeard wanted the best part of 40 quid for just one branch, "special order and its got to be made, 3 months wait", they only stocked Key Terrain

It was sight easier to buy a 6 mtr length of 108 mm table X, I think the hard thinner walled tube, think that it cost around £45 / £50, only took a couple of hours to knock up the two 108 branches, plus quarter of an hour to knock up each 42 mm branch

I have seen a 108 mm/4" spring used, stupid burr gers did not anneal the copper tube first and they used a hydraulic bender, in one go so the bend came out rippled to hell and back

Glaxo's at Barnard Castle laboratories was all copper wastes, hand knocked up and hard soldered, the Barbican used a fair bit of copper, so did the luxuary block of flats next to Madam Tausauds, this was all copper, soils, wastes, rainwater plus the services, with 150 mm headers for the cold water tanks, the Old Bailey had 108 mm copper tube with lose flanges the internal part of the flange was Spelter braized