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What was the best MacGuyver moment you actually saw on a job site?

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  • JHUNT
    JHUNT Member Posts: 1
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    Installed in 2018!

  • DCContrarian
    DCContrarian Member Posts: 1,124

    Needed to crimp a pex pipe in a ceiling. The pipe was so close to the subfloor that the crimper handles wouldn't fit between the joists. I didn't have my block crimper with me. So I took the handles off and used a C-clamp to close the jaws.

    Checked it with the Go/NoGo gauge.

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    heatheadPC7060
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 17,845

    We had a job cutting in 4 flanged tees into some welded piping on a high rise. Had to be drained and refilled and operational in two days weekend shut down long days. We used flanged tees because we had to install butterfly valve on the two tee connections.

    I had to make sure we had everything for the shutdown. Two welding machines, welding rod, torches, 4 tees 12 flanges, 4 blind flanges, gaskets and all the bolts and nuts , scaffolding etc and everything needed to fill and drain capture the glycol and refill.

    Well we had everything except for 1 problem. The 8" flanges were made in India, The flanged tees were Taiwan and the butterfly valves made by CRANE were China.

    All bought from F W Webb.

    We got everything together with 3 tees in and 5 of the 6 valves in and the last valve would not fit. Try as we might the bolts didn't line up.

    I guess one of the flanges from India was drilled a little off. Sunday night no supply houses open. The valves bolted in with 3/4" cap screws. and 2 of them would not fit. I had some 1/2" threaded rod in the truck so we cut some and pushed it through the flange, butterfly valve and the second flange and put nuts on each end. It worked

  • PC7060
    PC7060 Member Posts: 1,647
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    Did you have to come back later to drill and rebolt the joints?

  • DrPepper
    DrPepper Member Posts: 30

    I was a B&G Rep way back… did a radiant heating design (Heatway) for a contractor. Heat worked fine. But, the hot tub was supposed to be filled with 250+ gal of 105F water. The "Mega-Store" water heater selected by a supply house failed to see that water heaters work on G/HOUR not G/Min. Since it was "My boiler" could I fix it? After some thought, I designed an "Undersized" brazed plate HX and simple controls / pump to increase cold city water to a warm temperature. The Mega-Store did the rest. Contractor told me customer was thrilled and had plenty of hot water from then on.

  • Intplm.
    Intplm. Member Posts: 2,643

    Years ago, out in the middle of nowhere on a farm with no water. Couldn't troubleshoot a submersible pump's electric motor deep in a well. We needed to take a continuity reading, but the glass fuse on the lead of the old amprobe meter had blown, and we didn't have a replacement. Back then, almost everyone had a pack of cigarettes. Stripped a small piece of foil from the pack and wrapped it from top to bottom of the blown fuse, fooling the meter with that little bypass. Continuity taken.

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