I Made A Plumber's Tool...

[OnOff]

Needs a few H&S tweaks!

 

[Lurch]

If that works I'm making one. Be interested to see how much springs out the top, or is there a lid/top for it?

 

[OnOff]

If that works I'm making one. Be interested to see how much springs out the top, or is there a lid/top for it?

Posted elsewhere on a building forum too (cheers ProDave) but interesting to get another perspective.

I've seen some with a "Maltese Cross" shaped heavy board, others with like an under bonnet strut brace. Some have the centre post come right up high and others something you can slide down the centre post and lock to keep the board in place. Others, like mine have nothing (yet). Even debating something with a tension spring (bungee?) to pull such a board down.

Bricking myself tbh as never in my life laid UFH pipe. Seen it done though and they're quick at it too. Got Pex-Al-Pex pipe btw. This is my bathroom layout:



Learning lots over on ebuild tbh. This bathroom refit is like a test bed for the rest of the house. The lounge / diner when knocked through will be 4 - 5 times the size of this one.

 

[Blue Duck]

makita dk1800?

Nice work onoff :Salute

 

[OnOff]

makita dk1800?

Nice work onoff :Salute

Eyes like a hawk duck!

Nope, HR2420 for coring the wastes and a BHP451 in the bigger box.

Today's job...cover this in pipe    :

 

[Blue Duck]

ahh must be the bhp451 which came with an impact driver in the dk1800 set in s box with a silly lid!



I need to sleep more....

Happy new year!

 

[Lurch]

I've seen some with a "Maltese Cross" shaped heavy board, others with like an under bonnet strut brace. Some have the centre post come right up high and others something you can slide down the centre post and lock to keep the board in place. Others, like mine have nothing (yet). Even debating something with a tension spring (bungee?) to pull such a board down.

I was thinking some sort of disc of ply, possibly weighted, or maybe make it a slightly larger diameter than the uprights and thread the ends so you can screw it on. It should only really need to stop it coming over the top.

Bricking myself tbh as never in my life laid UFH pipe. Seen it done though and they're quick at it too. Got Pex-Al-Pex pipe btw. This is my bathroom layout:

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Learning lots over on ebuild tbh. This bathroom refit is like a test bed for the rest of the house. The lounge / diner when knocked through will be 4 - 5 times the size of this one.

It's not as hard as it looks, just throw it down and pressure test it then screed it. Job done. I haven't got one of those hydraulic testers, I made a filling loop with gauges/valves etc out of some random bits of stuff and fill it with water to mains pressure then top it up via the compressor to 6+ bar and then leave it there until the screed has dried.

 

[OnOff]

I was thinking some sort of disc of ply, possibly weighted, or maybe make it a slightly larger diameter than the uprights and thread the ends so you can screw it on. It should only really need to stop it coming over the top.

It's not as hard as it looks, just throw it down and pressure test it then screed it. Job done. I haven't got one of those hydraulic testers, I made a filling loop with gauges/valves etc out of some random bits of stuff and fill it with water to mains pressure then top it up via the compressor to 6+ bar and then leave it there until the screed has dried.

Cheers. Someone on another forum reckons to just shift the prongs to the inside and I should be good to go. Less chance of it springing off as it's PEX rather than Pert.

As I've not even got a manifold yet I was thinking on the same lines for testing i.e. lash something up. In fact for a good while it won't be even connected, manifold or not as I'm having to leave 10' tails where it comes out the door as the room it goes across isn't trenched yet to get to where the manifold's going.

 

[OnOff]

Yep, that works:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/122042403@N05/23811360670/

 

[kerching]

I commend your ingenuity

10/10. v.g. Tick

 

[Lurch]

I like. Nearly got it laid out as per the drawing as well!

 

[OnOff]

I like. Nearly got it laid out as per the drawing as well!

Ta. Same as post #3 isn't it?

+

Where'd I go wrong?

 

[Lurch]

It is now!

 

[OnOff]

It is now!

Do me a favour if you get 5 and sketch your DIY filling loop...........or explain how as in that a simpleton can follow!  :lol:

Think I've an 11 bar water gauge kicking around for starters.

 

[Lurch]

It's somewhere where I won't be until next week. Last time I saw it someone had nicked a couple of bits from it so I will try and get it re-assembled.

I did start to try and do some ASCII art and a description but it's more complicated than it sounds once you start writing it down! Basically it's a few valves and fittings, it's largely made up as I go along depending on the site (amount of loops, manifold available etc).

 

[Evans Electric]

I like the invention .

I presume that sort of pipe leaps out like a great clock spring when released .

Get it on the market ...like I should have done with my cable spooler .

 

[Lurch]

I presume that sort of pipe leaps out like a great clock spring when released .

It certainly does! I did a job a while back and took a 50m roll of 22mm plastic pipe into a customers house. We nearly never made it back out!

 

[Andy™]

imagine a plumbit trying to make something like that?!

 

[kerching]

Many years ago we put some ducting in for BT

In my infinite wisdom i bought a load of 20mm egatube in 50m coils....no joins,,no bends RESULT

WOFT or what.....?like a giant slinky/spring. It was middle,of winter, we put it in a drum of hot water,,,,softened it a treat.....took it out of drum....went solid in seconds

Gave it a Council burial

I got a furking for buying it

Whoops

 

[OnOff]

I like the invention .

I presume that sort of pipe leaps out like a great clock spring when released .

Get it on the market ...like I should have done with my cable spooler .

Market it? Nah, it's only my take on something commercial already out there.

Tbh my chippie mate looked at it and said "Why didn't you make it out of ply?". Horses for courses! If I did it out of timber I'd be thinking broom handle for the centre "shaft" and an old microwave turntable ring for the bearing.....or two opposing faces routed with a half round cutter and some of the kid's marbles ball bearings. 

I'd pretty much finished it when it dawned I could have made it 3 legged instead of 4!

Was trying to make it Meccano style, i.e. as simple as from whatever I had. Cost as usual is £0.00!

A few (never to be done) "to dos":

- The Unistrut needs end caps for safety.

- The flat plates were meant for the bigger M12 slot size Unistrut and all this is M10 so doesn't quite line up.

- The top "cross" members need to be upped from 21x41 to 41x41 as the 21mm height impedes the sliding of the 4 curved "prongs". That's why I put the 22mm lagging over the tubes to fill up the inner diameter of the coil. Also need smaller, less sharp, square washers.



- There's an argument for having the prongs height adjustable to cop with different size coils. So telescopic etc.

- Maybe a second bearing on that top plate to reduce wobble but it's workable as it is.

- Need to stick the centre shaft in the lathe and tidy up then I can lose the black plastic cap (salvaged from a Mars Milk / Galaxy)

- A few washers needed plus changing some nuts to nylocs etc

Whatever, did I mention it works?