bandman

I fixed my toilet!!!

You may think this is a joke, but I am the most mechanically inept person on earth. My flush valve on my American Standard Toilet with a 10-year “worries free” warranty stopped working after just over a year. American Standard sent me a new part based upon my description of what was happening, but told me I would either have to put it on myself, or hire a plumber to do it for me.

Now folks, give me a musical instrument and I’ll fix it. Give me a saw and ask me to build it and I’ll do a pretty good job. Give me an electronic device and I have about a 95% chance of getting it right. DON’T EVER LET ME NEAR PLUMBING OR UNDER THE HOOD OF A CAR.

This actually involved taking the entire tank off, replacing the part, and then replacing the tank. A plumber told me it would cost $125 for him to do it. I had the part, said “what the heck. Let’s give it a try”.

Sorry if this all sounds a little silly, but if I don’t spring a leak in the next hour or so I’m taking my wife and daughter out to dinner at a nice restaurant with the money I saved!!!

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Manny Laureano

Thomas Crapper would be proud!

http://www.theplumber.com/crapper.html

ML

trumpet blower88

Just think, you could have saved yourself the hassle by hireing a plumber and taking your family to TacoBell!

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-David Jacques

bandman

1) I love Taco Bell
2) I really am proud of actually getting this done without flooding my house!
3) My sister-in-law had emergency surgery tonight. We spent the last couple hours at the hospital. She is fine, but the dinner out will have to wait for another evening! I might have to see if the family will buy into that Taco Bell idea!

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Solar Bell

I hope the surgery was not on HER plumbing!

...and you did not attempt it!

-cw-

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Chuck Willard
The Willard of Oz

"Don't be afraid to see what you see."
Ronald Reagan

bandman

Just got the call that she is now in a room and all is fine. She had to have her appendix removed before they burst. Went to the hospital with a pain in the side. When the bills come in the pain will be somewhere else.

My sister-in-law is a great gal -- just as close to me as if she was my sister! I know that having and appendix removed is not a real serious surgery, but any surgery is seriousl when it is someone you love!

Just curious -- why do we have an appendix? Does it serve a purpose?

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Tootsall

Congrats on replacing the tank gasket (or was it the flapper valve?). But just you wait....until the day that someone drops a toothbrush "down the hole" and it gets caught just "around the bend"!!!!

You will then have to remove the entire toilet, drag it out to the back yard... hose it down thoroughly and then hope like heck you can drag the toothbrush out "one way or the other". Failing that, guess what a new toilet can cost?

"Been there, done that".

(One time it was a plastic "Superman" toy!)

bandman

Hey -- no flapper valve here. We have one of those new American Standard Champion Toilets. It has a new type of flush tower, which is what I had to replace today.

From their advertisement; "The Champion handles it all - 29 golf balls, 47 wads of toilet paper, or 16 cloth napkins - and with just one swift flush!"

They actually took this thing on the road for a tour called "flush fest"!

http://www.americanstandard-us.com/p...sp?p=flushfest

I can't believe that I actually started a thread about toilets!

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Solar Bell

Forget all the stupid parts.
We use a toilet that employs compressed air. It uses less than 6 quarts of water per flush and flushes in about 2 seconds.

It is really amazing.

www.chicagofaucets.com/pf2/pf2_how.php

A toilet thread on the trumpet site. GREAT Dave!

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Chuck Willard
The Willard of Oz

"Don't be afraid to see what you see."
Ronald Reagan

trumpet blower88

I'm always amazed with the toilets in most hotel rooms. It's not like my toilet where it fills with water and then drains down in a whirlpoll motion, it just sucks it straight down in a second or two. It always freaks me out the first time... Haha.

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-David Jacques