Found a stash in a radiator
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Bryant 245-8, 430k btu, 2-pipe steam in a 1930s 6-unit 1-story apt building in the NM mountains. 26 radiators 3800sqf
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And no smell of melted plastic????LOL0
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They've been there since 93" so probably not.
The lack of maintenance on this place is shameful... Amazing there was still heat.Bryant 245-8, 430k btu, 2-pipe steam in a 1930s 6-unit 1-story apt building in the NM mountains. 26 radiators 3800sqf
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Child! Where have all of your toys gone!!??
Yours, Larry2 -
Vindictive sibling no doubt
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They were trapped.
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Banned?
Bryant 245-8, 430k btu, 2-pipe steam in a 1930s 6-unit 1-story apt building in the NM mountains. 26 radiators 3800sqf
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Better there than in the toilet😳Bob "hot rod" Rohr
trainer for Caleffi NA
Living the hydronic dream
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Someone thinks steam heating is child's play.8.33 lbs./gal. x 60 min./hr. x 20°ΔT = 10,000 BTU's/hour
Two btu per sq ft for degree difference for a slab3 -
Very clever puns...I remember doing stuff like that...don't know why..But my older sister became concerned when her Barbie dolls and Raggedy Ann doll went M.I.A.
Apparently, I "disappeared" em! Years later when disassembling the Pool Table to make room for Older Brother Bart's Man Cave bedroom, my father Bart II called everyone down to show us something. The big heavy bases of the pool 🎱 table were hollowed out and I had deposited the dolls down inside them after I crawled underneath and found this hidden black hole. I also lost 4 G.I. Joe's and 1 Action Jackson (remember him) and 1 Johnny West figure on my roof in Howard Beach Queens. They all had homemade parachutes that I had made and threw up there! Finding the gutters stopped up, he found them all. It was like Christmas 🎄 all over again. My M.I.A.s dolls were back in my hands. Me and my older Brother Bart who should have known better, used to melt crayons 🖍 on the radiators...we loved the smell!! Ha ha. Great memories that brought back. Thanks. Mad Dog 🐕
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@Mad Dog_2 GERONIMO ! I remember those homemade parachutes .. I don't remember them working to well... unless you made them big ! Thanks.. for the trip down memory laneOne way to get familiar something you know nothing about is to ask a really smart person a really stupid question1
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All those great toys, reminds me of this story. https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1702214#Comment_1702214
Edward Young Retired
After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?
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When I was an apprentice, we did a remodel of a high school building and replaced all of the IDU/ fan coil/ CUH units in the building. My job as the low man was mostly demo, which also included scrapping and separating the ferrous from non-ferrous which was then divided amongst the crew (the good old days before the boss took it all), so I was pretty intimate with every unit that was removed. Never in my life have I seen so many pencils. By the time it was over, I had almost a whole 55 gallon trash can full of pencils along with several 5 gallon buckets of gum and wrappers.
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I went on a service call for a clogged toilet. I couldn’t get the auger through so I had to pull the bowl. The little boy said Elmo was down there… I pulled out Elmo and reset the bowl, but it was still clogged. The boy looked at me and said “That’s Grover, not Elmo”…
I pulled the bowl again and retrieved Elmo.
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You're lucky it wasn't...Big Bird.2
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One of Dan's stories tells a good tale of what wonderful things kids do. They found a wall convector that was not heating. After carving through many layers of paint to get the screws off, they found a deck of cards strewn all over the fins. It seems one of the siblings decided to play ATM.2
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I wonder if there is any value in those collectable toys?
Last week, one of my friends told a story about a co-worker calling in, their cat had dropped a remote control down the toilet...3 -
I wonder if that is where all of my lost socks have gone. Please check all radiators for me.3
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I once ran across an envelope under a dresser with at least $2K in it. I was going to hand it over to the customer and suggest a better hiding place, but decided to just leave it where I found it and not mention it at all.
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My Cuban mother law is like that. She's in apt1 and cash is stashed everywhere, no bank accounts.MaxMercy said:I once ran across an envelope under a dresser with at least $2K in it. I was going to hand it over to the customer and suggest a better hiding place, but decided to just leave it where I found it and not mention it at all.Bryant 245-8, 430k btu, 2-pipe steam in a 1930s 6-unit 1-story apt building in the NM mountains. 26 radiators 3800sqf
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MaxMercy said:I once ran across an envelope under a dresser with at least $2K in it. I was going to hand it over to the customer and suggest a better hiding place, but decided to just leave it where I found it and not mention it at all.guzzinerd said:
My Cuban mother law is like that. She's in apt1 and cash is stashed everywhere, no bank accounts.
What is her address?
Edward Young Retired
After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?
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I suppose this story is worth a repeat from a few years ago.
There were 3 workers from the same office living in a rental house.
Wc was slow and nearly run over with each flush.
The WC auger produced a well rinsed toothbrush.
I threw it away and went to their office and said the problem was solved... and announced "Oh, by the way I put that toothbrush back into the holder with the others."
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I could ✍ pen a small book on things I've retrieved from the 🚻 Loo....some too saucy to mention here. Taken one too many toilets out on the front lawn for exploratory surgery. Mad Dog.1
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Many decades ago I had just gotten home from my Tour in Korea and was living with my mother and brother. I came home from wor, changed clothes and took a leak, when I flushed to toilet almost over flowed. I tried the plunger but nop dice so I tried using a wire fuish tape but it wouldn't go through the trap. My brother in law lived just over the bridge so I called for help, he had 3 kids so he brought a wax seal with him just in case, he was well versed in what gat mistakenly end up in a toilet..
We tried a couple of things to unclog it but ended up pulling it off the floor. I brought it out on the back lawn and could tell something was lodged it it. Using a hose i finally got it to go back up and discovered it was broken aftershave bottle.
Turns out my brother was getting ready for a date and dropped the aftershave that hit the sink and bounced into the toilet. He fished out a couple of broken pieces and didn't realize there was one large piece left which I got to fight with.Smith G8-3 with EZ Gas @ 90,000 BTU, Single pipe steam
Vaporstat with a 12oz cut-out and 4oz cut-in
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Plumber told the story of a medical building that needed the women's WC's to be augared regularly.
He would find an ink pen caught crosswise in the trap.
He noticed all the nurses carried a pen in the pocket of their top scrubs.
When they leaned to flush the pen would fall out into the WC, of course it was flushed down.
I don't know how he cured the problem, maybe never, paid well for an easy job.
IIWM today, I would carry the wet pen to the nurse station and lay it on the counter.
It would turn into a biohazard situation and might have solved the loose pen problem.3 -
Had a no heat call at a day care center on a 90+ furnace. Would not make the pressure switch. Pulled the air intake off and at least 20 yellow tennis balls rolled out. The lady said she wondered where they all went.3
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My two oldest sons are 18 months apart. When the older one had to use the toilet, he didn't flush it. My wife didn't hear it flush and told him to flush it. He said, "But Mom" more than once. She said, "FLUSH IT!" He did then started crying. She asked him why he was crying. He said, "I just flushed a diaper down the toilet."
That was before paper diapers! Needless to say, my wife flushed the toilet a few times, and never repeated the escapade!
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We had a call to find out why a retrofit hot air system was not working after the ducts were cleaned. As I drove the remote controlled camera through the ducts I was glad that it had tracks instead of wheels because of all the plastic toys in the way. The registers just dropped into the floor and apparently some little one had discovered that they were easy to lift out of the way so toys could adventure below the floors.
Oh, why didn't the system work? Because a riser had been disconnected inside of a brick chase.
I still wonder how the installer had made the connection in the first place. They had no space to get tools in the chase so I guess it was just jammed together. I guess the cleaner had pushed the joint apart
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Someone brought a TV set into the shop where I used to work back in the 70s. They said it didn't work. I pushed the reset button and plugged it in, and it tripped the circuit breaker on my bench outlet box before I even turned it on. So I took the back off and looked at the chassis and saw that some coins had been dropped through the venting slots in the back of the set and shorted out some of the power supply terminals. After removing all the coins I tested the set, but, unfortunately, they had managed to fry some of the circuitry before they dropped the coin that killed the power. So I called the customer and asked them if they had kids. They said they did, so I told them they must have been trying to invent pay-TV.
Just another DIYer | King of Prussia, PA
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Certianly woudln't have been the first person to put some s cleats on the end of a duct and shove and hope for the best.
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