[GeoStL] Re: frozen pipes .. fixed!!!

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Bah, Humbug probably says it all!

You could go caching and pickup some hand warmers and wrap those around the
pipe.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn" <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 10:44 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] frozen pipes .. fixed!!!


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> 1) Problem, no diagnostic tools at 0300  to determine if heat tape is
> working. my infraed thermometer has walked off.  this morning I dug up
> pieces of some old indoor/outdoor thermometers and spliced pieces together
> to get the outdoor section working. it didnt measure anything accurately
> but it can tell temp *differences*.  i measured outdoor air then taped the
> sensor to different sections of the pipe. all sections of the pipe was
> warmer than ambient air temp. i put some snow on an exposed part of the
> tape and it melted. so, the heaters are working. the pipe in the water
> hookup hole is exposed again. I stuck a heating pad around the exposed
> part, warmed it up and we now have water again.    :-)   I need to
> re-insulate the water hole section of pipe. fiberglass batting will work
> but i have some old sweatshirts and that will have to do for now.
>
> 2) No bottled water, we use the free stuff, and i got the "uh, sure,
frozen
> pipes....OK." response from work. I  was going to take the plumbers bill,
> then the receipt for new heat tape, but i didnt do either. I guess I
better
> go out and take a picture of me laying in a foot of  snow next to the
house.
>
> 3) SNOW ANGELS!!
>
> i guess i could go to work now. I will have to think on this for a minute.
> (tick, tick, tick ) .... done. I have already missed enough of the day to
> give me a black mark so there is no point in showing up to help.
>
>
> At 09:39 AM 12/25/2002 -0600,
>  > From: Glenn
>  >
>  > the friggin pipes have frozen.  anybody wanting coffee will
>  > just have to
>  > wait.   arrrrg,
>
> What, no bottled/filtered water in the fridge?
>
>  > oh yea,
>  > complements of the season to ya'll again.
>  >
>  > i got the computer another 256meg of memory. it dosnt think
>  > any smarter but
>  > it does it faster now :-)
>
> The hell with heat tape, just set up your computer near those frozen
> pipes. Should melt everything in no time.
>
>  > glenn
>  > mr Christmas fixit.
>  > missing work to call closed hardware places.
>
> I bet work *really* believes your excuse for missing today, huh?
>
> Happy happy!
>
> .:~*~:.:~*~:.:~*~:.:~*~:.
> Glenn
> St. Louis, Mo
>
>
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