tools from yesteryear

[Hybrid]

My swaging tool is actually an old artillery shell lol! Raised a few eye brows!

 

[REDSAW]

My swaging tool is actually an old artillery shell lol! Raised a few eye brows!

dont like it up em cpt mannering do they?.

 

[ecowarm]

dont like it up em cpt mannering do they?.

Fuzzy wuzzies

 

[Dannypipe]

You good old boys really knew how to do plumbing proper.

An inside out mole, and a lump of steel (that you clump with a hammer) was all you needed to create works of such quality, they've lasted decades.

Of course, I'm very handy with a pushfit coupling and a few flexi hoses.....but then I was born in the late 70's, not plumbing during them.

 

[mrlennie]

Of course, I'm very handy with a pushfit coupling and a few flexi hoses...

Why use pushfits at all when you can just link flexis!

 

[johnnyplumb]

Them flexi's come in 1.5m length now. used 2 a few days ago when turning a bath round. saved me 3m of pipe , 2 bath adapters & 2 straights. came in pushfit as well. No skint knuckles nowadays. Easy game this plumbing .

 

[WHPES]

Came to look at a property which had been empty for a year and the new occupant tried to turn the water on and whoosh! Flexis eveywhere including to the radiators, and all plastic. Mice and rats had been very busy (with the electrics also!) and what they hadn't ruined, the frost had finished off so decided to rip out all and replace.

 

[Best]

When you take a good look at most scrap flexis, they are scary quality - not much different than a shower hose. The crimped end isnt up to much & frost just pulls it apart.

 

[johnnyplumb]

Came to look at a property which had been empty for a year and the new occupant tried to turn the water on and whoosh! Flexis eveywhere including to the radiators, and all plastic. Mice and rats had been very busy (with the electrics also!) and what they hadn't ruined, the frost had finished off so decided to rip out all and replace.

Great things mice Newtons law = plastic pipe + mice = £ . made my fortune out of mice. ps it's cats i dont like.

 

[kirkgas]

i can see the benefit of plastic for certain jobs, and have used it myself, but flexis??????? NEVER, and i mean NEVER would i lower myself to fit a flexi pipe on plumbing, i think the quality is rank and a finished job with them anywhere looks mince