[AT] OT, one of those days, a Monday

[Steve W.]

Cecil Bearden wrote:
> The refrigerator is in my Dad's old manuf home.  We are using it while  
> I get the polybutylene plumbing changed over from our home I built in 
> 85.  I did not get in on the class action suit  that awarded 10K for 
> each household.  The pipe does not go bad, it is the fittings.  I have 
> had 3 fitting breaks,  the first one I did not realize it was a problem 
> with the fittings.   After reading the reports on the studies done on 
> the fittings which are acetyl, Chlorine leaches the binder out of the 
> acetyl and the fittings gets very brittle.   The fittings I have 
> replaced are white inside instead of grey like PVC conduit when they are 
> installed.  I have adapted the short runs under cabinets over to PEX 
> with brass adapter fittings.  However, each run in the wall behind a 
> fixture has to have the wall cut out and either repaired or an access 
> plate installed.  I still have to replumb the laundry room, a toilet and 
> sink in the garage, and the run to the icemaker in the kitchen.  Then I 
> have 4 elbows in my mechanical room where everything comes together to 
> replace.
> 
> The refrigerator is one that my wife's grandmother bought in about 1984 
> and replaced the 12 year old one in Dad's home.  The problem is where it 
> sits is in the kitchen passageway to the back door and washer dryer 
> bathroom and everything.  Pulling it out requires a lot of help, and 
> removing it is even worse.  It has to go out the front door.  I will 
> keep the refrig at 36deg or lower. I think the defroster heater element 
> shorted out and stuck the timer or the thermostat switch.  I removed the 
> upper panel in the refrig and did not find the timer.  The pressure of 
> trying to repair it and save whatever is in the refrigerator/freezer and 
> the tight access just makes it a pain to work on.  Especially when I 
> have a 5 hour repair on the New Holland.  I am waiting on the sun to get 
> behind the shade tree so I can finish it....
> Farming is easy, it is the other distractions that make it a problem...
> Cecil
> 

The trailer I'm in has that same plumbing, Only saving grace is we have 
well water with no chlorine, but I'm planning on doing a replumb of it 
with PEX anyway.

-- 
Steve W.