22-11-2016, 05:19 PM
Ordure! Ordure! As the speaker of the House of Commons often says. Quite appropriate really when referring the "dense, rigid, insoluble objects" that populate that place. Anyway, enough of politics and cyncism. Back to drains, much more sanitary.
@Valvebloke, I can do better than that. I was drilling a 20mm hole in my plastic soil stack to take the condensate drain from my new boiler. Wasn't too worried about a small bit of plastic going down the drain but the holesaw was slightly loose in the chuck. The holesaw, complete with arbor, went down the stack. I rodded through the whole system and never found it so I can only assume it landed up in the public sewer. In retrospect I should have used a stepped drill like this http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catal..._11970.jpg though I'm not sure if I had any at the time. The photo shows the 20mm to soil connection.
I'll have a think about how to avoid a lump of cast iron going down the drain. Might be able to devise something to fit instead of the pilot drill once the hole is well started. Possibly something made from a bit of wire coathanger. Or even a powerful little magnet.
Off out soon to the Wood Awards bash at the Carpenters Hall. Well where else? My partner is one of the judges so I'm just going for fun as whatever the male counterpart of a WAG is. http://woodawards.com/
@Valvebloke, I can do better than that. I was drilling a 20mm hole in my plastic soil stack to take the condensate drain from my new boiler. Wasn't too worried about a small bit of plastic going down the drain but the holesaw was slightly loose in the chuck. The holesaw, complete with arbor, went down the stack. I rodded through the whole system and never found it so I can only assume it landed up in the public sewer. In retrospect I should have used a stepped drill like this http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catal..._11970.jpg though I'm not sure if I had any at the time. The photo shows the 20mm to soil connection.
I'll have a think about how to avoid a lump of cast iron going down the drain. Might be able to devise something to fit instead of the pilot drill once the hole is well started. Possibly something made from a bit of wire coathanger. Or even a powerful little magnet.
Off out soon to the Wood Awards bash at the Carpenters Hall. Well where else? My partner is one of the judges so I'm just going for fun as whatever the male counterpart of a WAG is. http://woodawards.com/
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