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by loveoldtrux
Fri Mar 08, 2019 8:36 am
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: Bathroom tub diverter spigot inlet size?
Replies: 1
Views: 20342

Bathroom tub diverter spigot inlet size?

Hi all - the diverter part of the tub spigot quit; thus no showers; only baths. I unscrewed it and took to Home Depot to attempt to get a quick handy replacement; no need to keep old one (I thought) so I threw it out several months ago. Went to Depot and was assured it was an "exact fit" t...
by loveoldtrux
Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:21 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: Would this be too heavy for my floor - 1988 double wide?...
Replies: 3
Views: 27721

Re: Would this be too heavy for my floor - 1988 double wide?...

Thanks, Greg - does anybody else have LARGE organs in their mobile home? I'm restoring this one - it's a 1927 Skinner from the Ritz Theater in New York.

I'll build a pier under where this organ will be going - should weigh around 500 pounds maybe?.....

God Bless,
Mark
by loveoldtrux
Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:34 am
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: Would this be too heavy for my floor - 1988 double wide?...
Replies: 3
Views: 27721

Would this be too heavy for my floor - 1988 double wide?...

Rather large..... would I have to prop up the floor from below? The floor joists are 2 X pretty big :-)..
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by loveoldtrux
Thu Mar 12, 2015 7:28 am
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: Plumbing Help needed for elbow at water heater
Replies: 13
Views: 12468

Re: Plumbing Help needed for elbow at water heater

Thanks for the replies everybody - normally can't log in during the week... gotta get ready and GO to work!! Hot water was fine before repairing the leak at the tank. Water isn't leaking anymore and I have hot water everywhere BUT the kitchen sink ( I installed an aftermarket faucet about 10 years a...
by loveoldtrux
Sun Mar 08, 2015 4:58 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: Plumbing Help needed for elbow at water heater
Replies: 13
Views: 12468

Re: elbow at water heater; FIXED it!

Well.. good news and bad news. Fixed the leak by getting a sharkbite converter from the polybutelene pipe installed 27 years ago - jury rigged it to some CPVC elbows and some sections from 2' of CPVC 3/4" pipe. Used a brass 3/4" to cpvc convertor at the water heater and glued it all togeth...
by loveoldtrux
Wed Mar 04, 2015 6:37 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: Plumbing Help needed for elbow at water heater
Replies: 13
Views: 12468

Re: Plumbing Help needed for elbow at water heater

Thank you all for your feedback and ideas!! I guess it's off to Home Depot this Saturday for these transition kits before I come home to a flooded home one day!!

Mark
by loveoldtrux
Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:19 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: Plumbing Help needed for elbow at water heater
Replies: 13
Views: 12468

Re: Plumbing Help needed for elbow at water heater

Thanks for the feedback, Greg - found some of these over at https://www.plumbingsupply.com/polyb.html
by loveoldtrux
Sun Mar 01, 2015 2:09 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: Plumbing Help needed for elbow at water heater
Replies: 13
Views: 12468

Plumbing Help needed for elbow at water heater

HI gang! Snooped around the water leak to find the water leak in my home is NOT due to a rain cap on the furnace flue - there is a drip at this thing..... http://www.onmyfacebeforehim.com/split%20in%20pipe.jpg In the picture, the work "SPLIT" got cropped out a little - I did pretty good ge...
by loveoldtrux
Mon Dec 08, 2014 11:47 am
Forum: Service & Repair of Other Brands
Topic: 1988 Intertherm heatright propane furnace "rain cap"
Replies: 4
Views: 20793

Re: 1988 Intertherm heatright propane furnace "rain cap"

Excellent Greg - thanks for the link and roof jack info!!

Merry Christmas,
Mark
by loveoldtrux
Sun Dec 07, 2014 7:12 pm
Forum: Service & Repair of Other Brands
Topic: 1988 Intertherm heatright propane furnace "rain cap"
Replies: 4
Views: 20793

Re: 1988 Intertherm heatright propane furnace "rain cap"

Thanks for the reply, Greg; by roof jack you're talking about the roofing under the cap? I guess the cap unscrews.... just remove on a sunny day and cart off to Home Depot for a fit with a new replacement.

Thanks ---- Mark
by loveoldtrux
Sun Dec 07, 2014 12:47 pm
Forum: Service & Repair of Other Brands
Topic: 1988 Intertherm heatright propane furnace "rain cap"
Replies: 4
Views: 20793

1988 Intertherm heatright propane furnace "rain cap"

Hello Gang, Back again after a lot of major events in life!! Still in the same HOME that I purchased 26 years ago - just 2 1/2 years to go and it's paid off!! <yipppeeee> It'll be paid off with a sagging floor that I'll need to repair after fixing the leak (most important); I know how to fix the flo...
by loveoldtrux
Wed Mar 06, 2013 5:47 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: floor ruined - furnace cap leaking water in!!
Replies: 3
Views: 2574

Re: floor ruined - furnace cap leaking water in!!

JD - thanks. Got the black goop for this weekend.
-Mark
by loveoldtrux
Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:30 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: drip DRIP D-R-I-P! Water heater pressure valve
Replies: 2
Views: 2049

Re: drip DRIP D-R-I-P! Water heater pressure valve

Thanks JP. Yes, in ways I've been blessed - the tank is 25 years old and the water pump 260 feet down is the original one!! Let's pray the threads don't give way when I try and wrench it out next weekend. I've still got my 36" socket prybar from my mechanic days in the 60's. That'll either dest...
by loveoldtrux
Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:03 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: floor ruined - furnace cap leaking water in!!
Replies: 3
Views: 2574

floor ruined - furnace cap leaking water in!!

Noticed after some rains the floor in the laundry room is sagging. Oh my stars. I thought water might have been coming in through the back door and getting under the linoleum make the floor warp. Thanks to my cat, Jane, she was snooping at the real problem - after a bad rain she was nosing around th...
by loveoldtrux
Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:35 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: drip DRIP D-R-I-P! Water heater pressure valve
Replies: 2
Views: 2049

drip DRIP D-R-I-P! Water heater pressure valve

Been hearing a dripping under the home. Finally got the nerve to get under the house in 40 degree weather with a runny nose and waller around in mud. Well... thank goodness no mud, but I did see what the dripping was all about. A white drain pipe ... water dripping into a pool of water collecting un...