Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefox,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Totally OT (includes passing reference to AI): long wave Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 07:01:51 +0100 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <107jcgc$osjk$1@paganini.bofh.team> <107jf5u$6pf8$1@dont-email.me> <107jkoo$7d6l$1@dont-email.me> <107kie9$f61o$1@dont-email.me> <107lmre$oeik$1@dont-email.me> <107n749$13m45$1@dont-email.me> <107p82h$1hp41$1@dont-email.me> <107q6hc$1n0cg$2@dont-email.me> <107r1kq$1viji$1@dont-email.me> <107sm6u$1n0cg$13@dont-email.me> <107t49e$29skn$2@dont-email.me> <107tdnl$2ismm$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net iTQ4OPInaW2TfVVN94fG/Q2Ttv4zG0v5jCZNgdcN9x8xrKdm+5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:WBDE3/Cx+BkSRXJ8khEcEbFPQtE= sha256:WvcvsdgP0yfaio6V/80cmeNVY7xtmH4ygbLfxv27mL4= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <107tdnl$2ismm$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.firefox:14536 alt.comp.os.windows-11:22436 alt.comp.os.windows-10:186821 Paul wrote: > The previous furnace had mostly black pipe, > and it had one section of copper leading to the furnace, and it took > three tries, two guys with a big spanner each, to get enough compressive > pressure to make it so the copper connection point did not leak. So solder it? Gas mains in the street were replaced here last year (something like 3" plastic inserted inside the 1970s 4" cast iron). As built, the houses transitioned to black iron somewhere outside the front door, which then went under the solid concrete floors to the meter. In the intervening years many front-porches and garages had been built over the transition point, they refused to leave my meter in the same location. Some houses had ugly meter boxes fitted on (not within) external walls, others had yards and yards of external pipe snaked around their house also ugly). I got them to dig* and divert the incoming pipe a couple of metres, so all that's visible is an external vertical riser about 18". The rest is 22mm soldered copper, neat enough and will get boxed inside a cupboard "soon". [*] i knew there was concrete under the block paved drive, but they didn't ask, I suspect it was biting-off more than they expected!