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I'm Gonna Kill Santa Claus
5 years ago
Friday, April 11, 2014
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Monday, April 07, 2014
Toilet 2.0
The aquarium seal worked, on one side. The hacked tank bolts are complicating this, and the other side leaked a little. It gets re-sealed, packed like a bearing, and retested after 48 hours, when it has time to cure.
I also ended up replacing virtually every other part, basically rebuilding the POS toilet from the ground up, and had just that one tank bolt leak. I'd call that progress.
I could call a plumber - easily affordable. I could just go buy a new toilet, no doubt a better one. But that isn't the point...
As an aside, I don't quite understand why my earlier post about rebuilding a toilet got so many hits.
I also ended up replacing virtually every other part, basically rebuilding the POS toilet from the ground up, and had just that one tank bolt leak. I'd call that progress.
I could call a plumber - easily affordable. I could just go buy a new toilet, no doubt a better one. But that isn't the point...
As an aside, I don't quite understand why my earlier post about rebuilding a toilet got so many hits.
Sunday, April 06, 2014
Saturday, April 05, 2014
Annoying
One of the toilets broke the other day. Tank bolts rusted through, because they were iron. Stupid. So the toilets are non-standard, and I can't find replacement parts at Lowe's or Home Despot, or even online, because the mfg ate shit during the financial crisis, etc. I can just find brass "Universal fit" stuff that ain't right, so I run with that.
Doesn't fit, doesn't seal. WTF to do? Hrm.. Aquarium sealer! $10 at PetSmart. Fucking magic!
Given one of the Universal brass fitting kits, and a toilet tank it doesn't seal:
1) After removing the old hardware, scrub, scrub, scrub. The bottom of the tank has to be as clean as you can get it.
2) Let it dry, or the aquarium seal isn't going to adhere
3) Seal
4) After maybe 30 minutes, go in and pat it into the porcelain
5) 48 hour curing time to let the silicon set
6) Crap in peace, because the combination of brass hardware and silicon seals mean that tank is better than what you had when you bought the house
Doesn't fit, doesn't seal. WTF to do? Hrm.. Aquarium sealer! $10 at PetSmart. Fucking magic!
Given one of the Universal brass fitting kits, and a toilet tank it doesn't seal:
1) After removing the old hardware, scrub, scrub, scrub. The bottom of the tank has to be as clean as you can get it.
2) Let it dry, or the aquarium seal isn't going to adhere
3) Seal
4) After maybe 30 minutes, go in and pat it into the porcelain
5) 48 hour curing time to let the silicon set
6) Crap in peace, because the combination of brass hardware and silicon seals mean that tank is better than what you had when you bought the house
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