Originally Posted by
Joe Angrisani
Kent.... My local Orange Borg will cut and thread pipe for free. Ask the guy in the black pipe aisle next time you're at yours.
Joe - yeah, that I knew - 25+ pony pipe clamp sets and 40+ pieces of pipe, and they've happily cut + threaded them all. On the air supply piping, though...you're giving me way too much credit for detailed advance planning. With the copper, in my water supply plumbing, the approach is "just solder the darn pipe in place, and cut it to length when you get to where you're going" is how I do it. Plus - I make good use - too much use - of the ability of the soldered fittings [45*, 90*, Tee] to make directional changes to correct alignment deviations from the previous joint. I'd never make a living as a plumber, but I've never had a soldered joint leak or fail, plus - I just get a certain satisfaction from attacking stuff with flames.
I feel a whole lot more like I do now, than I did a little while ago.
My plan is to live forever. So far, so good.