A HOT day threading pipe

Mark Hunt

Care to join me?!?!?!

Peace to you David. I hope you got a chuckle!

Mark H

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Gene_2

Learning old school !!!

It is nice having my son working with me and much easier on my back. He said he wants to get strong arms and I said I have just the exercise for you. Nothing like cutting and threading 2" black pipe to give a nice workout on your own pipes. Mark was doing a good job "supervising". We were doing a steamer but I had to leave before I could get some pics of the install. Mark is skimming the boiler as I post this.

Darin

J.C.A._3

Hunt's such a cheap @%$^&amp;

I HIGHLY suggest he invest in a nice Rems Amigo 2 . Knowing him, he'd rather use the slave labor!

Go ahead Mark, tell him what WE all heard breaking into the field...."It builds character"!) Chris

Gene_2

Somehow I "forgot" the Ridgid 700. But remember "chicks dig strong pipes".

Darin

David Sutton_6

Phew !!!!

Oh man not the old multi head......Man i spent some hours cranking on that thing...Grunt...Strong as bull...dumb as cow....
Used to do all my steam systems with that puppy...
yup builds chariture all right ;-) hehe

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Steve Paul_4

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK

Seeing a new youngster breaking in with the old methods reminds me of the first time, many years ago that I learned how to use a 2-handled stock and die. The mechanic showed me how to start the dies onto the pipe and while standing in front of the pipe end, how to pull the top handle down and then push the handle the rest of the way. Natually I got confused. I stood on the left side facing while facing the pipe end and pushed the top handle away from me. OF COURSE THE BOTTOM HANDLE CAME UP AND NEARLY MADE A EUNICH OUT OF ME. That NEVER happened again!

Mike T., Swampeast MO

At least his shirt isn't adhered to his back...

The smoke leaning against that beautiful stone foundation is a nice touch.

Steamhead (in transit)

Good point, Swampy

I don't see ANYONE sweating in those pics! Can't be that hot that far north...... ;-)

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Frenchie

Smoke

Sorry, I can't resist, but did you check the CO production of that cigarette? I'll bet it's putting out more than my oil fired boiler!!!!

Wayco Wayne_2

Does my heart good

to see the young man doing some honest work. A plumber/friend of mine told me his teenage daughter started a new job at a diner and quit after one night because her feet hurt. He was aghast. My whole body hurts at the end of the day, he sez. I can only nod. Yup. World going to hell by God. BTW my son uses the electric threader. What a sissy boy. :P WW

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Mark Hunt

HEY!


I prefer to be called "frugal"!!!

We found that old pipe threader at the salvage yard along with a perfectly good tri-stand vise. Darin and I figger that some old plumber became a "dead man" and his kidz had no idea what that stuff was for much less worth. It is in fantantastic condition.

Darin didn't get pics of me burning his son with my smoke yelling "FASTER...FASTER!!!!!" What a hoot!

Young Anthony is a solar powered pipe threader! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Seriously.......this was a job that came to us via The Wall. The customer was convinced that he had to completely remove his existing steam system because all of the other "pros" told him so. They could not "fix" it. Thanks to "The Lost Art of Steam Heating", I can and did. Never met a steam system yet that can't be fixed.

Mr. and Mrs. are delighted that they get to keep the original system complete with those cast iron rads. Part of the reason they bought the place to begin with.

"Give me your clanging, your banging, your clogged air vents yearning to breathe free, the wretched radiators of years gone by. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

I may have gone insane.

Mark H

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Mark Hunt

Yah


Which number do you want, air free or diluted?

I'll show you mine if you show me yours!

I would not have been able to resist either!

Cheers!

Mark H

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David Sutton_6

Mark...you may !! have gone insane ??

LOL....David

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ScottMP

Strong like bull

Good for him. And he gets to work while Hunt watchs him .... Just Like Dad !

One of my guys asked for the Rems threader and he was doing 1/2" .... I had to laugh. I remember the days of the ol' 2" mutli head. I had to jump on that thing to make the last couple of threads.

Scott

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Gene_2

Most of that area of old Albany

is actually gravity hot water. There have been places with 6" screwed pipe in the rafters. You know someone threaded that by hand.
Those were the dead men that that could grab someone by their throat and lift them off the ground with one arm!!

Darin

S Ebels

Ah Yes.......the good ol' days

> It is nice having my son working with me and much

> easier on my back. He said he wants to get strong

> arms and I said I have just the exercise for you.

> Nothing like cutting and threading 2" black pipe

> to give a nice workout on your own pipes. Mark

> was doing a good job "supervising". We were doing

> a steamer but I had to leave before I could get

> some pics of the install. Mark is skimming the

> boiler as I post this.

>

> Darin

S Ebels

Ah Yes.......the good ol' days

I remember threading pipe by hand in the back room of our hardware store when I was a wee laddie. I was probably 10-11 years old and maybe weighed all of 90# soaking wet. Dad and Gramps were both busy with other customers when an old farmer brought in a piece of 2" that needed a thread. I had never done anything over 1" before but he helped me get the length into the pipe vise we had mounted on a post in the back room. After finding the old two handled die head I commenced to spin a thread on the 2" for him. After about 3-4 turns I found that I could literally hang on the handle with my feet off the ground whilst the die refused to turn. The old farmer laughed and told me I had to eat more "taters". I'll never forget it. Maybe that's the reason I've been trying to gain weight ever since.......................:)

Shortly after that, dad bought a brand new 535 Ridgid at the hardware show in Ft Wayne Indiana. I think it cost around $1,100 back then. Those were the days when Ridge was still doing business with hardware stores instead of Home Despot.

David Sutton_6

Hey Mark...

I have a suite over looking the empty pool LOL...David

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frank_25

I broke in with that ole 65R stock back in the 60's. Great tool if ya know how to make a crooked thread. That's when there were a lot of galvanized waste and vents going on, and good ole STEAM boilers. Now @ 16, my son has worked during Summer recess for the second year with me, and he likes this trade. Some of us got it, and some don't. Knowledge to do this stuff is what I'm talking about. But what do I know? I'm just a plumber.