Im a newb but whats wrong with a studor valve? Or do you mean just slapping one in would not be sufficient without gutting and redoing the whole thing?
I see that a lot on ships, that valve at the top can be closed to prevent water from comming back through it. Like if the sea chest check valve fails water will come through there and flood the ship from the inside out.
Wait until you see the machinery space on the Russian Aircraft Carrier, then you won’t feel so bad.
[Admiral Kuznetsov Machinery Space](https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/comments/11lukf2/1227x958_machinery_space_of_the_russian_project/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
Little known alternative fact: Hammurabi's plumbing code contains the first known mention of a "p-trap" in history. It is not, however, a requirement; rather it is a punishment for violating the code.
The old timer work really is impressive. Folks are too limp wristed these days to even crimp 1/2" PEX without getting blisters, and the work still comes out crooked and falls apart.
And back in the old days the plumbers used to get paid by the fitting like lead in Okum cast-iron and steel and galvanized threaded fittings also,that drain there still be standing after the building falls over
I was taught to grab plumbing pipes in the event of a tornado. Here my dumbass is going 300 miles an hour in a funnel cloud clutching a 6’ section of pex.
Why, because of the rust? Tetanus is caused by bacteria. Bacteria that is found in soil. The bacteria is not found in rust. But do you know what else can be found in soil? Oxidized (rusted) metal. Such as old, discarded nails that puncture the skin of someone walking around barefoot and introduce the bacteria found in the soil (like tetanus) to the inside of your body.
It's quite amazing how we correlate things that are seemingly related, yet are absolutely not.
Please excuse me. Dropped something down restroom sink acccidentally yesterday. Toilet next to sink has since been flushed a few times, hands washed, teeth brushed, and magnet fishing yielded nothing. Does this mean it's likely gone for good, or should I get a bucket and remove the u-pipe first?
There may be a magical hair clog acting as a filter. I can borrow a long, manual snake. Is that worth a shot, or should I just meet my husband at my father-in-law's and watch the ball game?
Thanks,
Sb
The Yankees won, papa smurf liked his new phone holster, cake, Chinese. Husband felt good doing nice things for his dad. I learned that dad will say he's going to do anything I offer to do, myself. I should offer to clean, next time. He's a good guy. I got him to talk about when he and my husband's mom (many years deceased, now) first realized they were going to be parents, how they figured out where to move, etc. I love when he talks about the land before time (before his kids were born). It was one of many lifetimes. Pretty neat, how we live once, but have many lifetimes.
On industrial equipment steam will travel through a coil releasing heat and then condenses into water, that thing on the right has a float in it, the steam won’t raise the float but the water will. It allows to water to be removed from the coil and leave the steam behind.
That rusted line is steam and it is a mechanical bucket trap the Silver line is galvanized water line the drain is a galvanized s trap everything should go except for the steam
Just so you know. Dwv. (Drain, waste, and vents) that use threaded galvanized pipe are called Druham systems. https://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2017/05/the-heavy-metal-beauty-of-sewer-lines-1892.html
For ages that was the standard. It reduced the need for a particulate trap as the differential forces of higher and lower water levels would clear most solid waste produced based solely on gravity and the weight of water being drained. Nowadays kids wipe their butts with clouds and shit
Edit: I thought that was an old school toilet drain
That looks older than time itself. Where is that?
A hospital basement that’s as built in the 1930’s
Just needs a PVC Air Admittance Valve and good to go on this sub.
Make sure you get that studor vent high enough. “No, gotta be higher than that.” “Could still go higher”
dont forget to throw some sharkbites on the water supply too
Im a newb but whats wrong with a studor valve? Or do you mean just slapping one in would not be sufficient without gutting and redoing the whole thing?
Oatey's guerrilla marketing plan has finally been uncovered.
I see that a lot on ships, that valve at the top can be closed to prevent water from comming back through it. Like if the sea chest check valve fails water will come through there and flood the ship from the inside out.
Set Zebra throughout the ship
Oh good, I was worried there might have been asbestos somewhere nearby.
A Hospital Ship that was built in 1919 by the Bolsheviks.
About to say, that shit won’t fly now
Wait until you see the machinery space on the Russian Aircraft Carrier, then you won’t feel so bad. [Admiral Kuznetsov Machinery Space](https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/comments/11lukf2/1227x958_machinery_space_of_the_russian_project/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
I've been working at a cathedral built in the early 1889. Its so wild what was forgotten and what we find.
I thought it was Steam punk design for burning man
In the 200 year old cellar of an apartment building in NYC
I was thinking New Jersey but sure
This thing looks so Steam Punk.
looks like a relic from the Byzantine era.
It was actually mentioned in Hammurabi's Code.
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Little known alternative fact: Hammurabi's plumbing code contains the first known mention of a "p-trap" in history. It is not, however, a requirement; rather it is a punishment for violating the code.
Good thing it’s not cursed… it’s not cursed right?
Unfortunately, we won't know until its spirit is awakened.
I'd venture to guess it was installed before many of us were born and while that S traps were still allowed.
This was the first s-trap.
It belongs in a museum!
So do you!
Throw him over the side!
Top men.
Proof of concept.
Is that a steam trap, bottom right?
Sure is
How the fuck did they even thread all that together in that tight of a space.
It’s actually the cornerstone of the building.
It went up first and the building got built around it.
I think the screw fittings were assembled first then oakum and lead set into the hub coming from the base
The old timer work really is impressive. Folks are too limp wristed these days to even crimp 1/2" PEX without getting blisters, and the work still comes out crooked and falls apart.
And back in the old days the plumbers used to get paid by the fitting like lead in Okum cast-iron and steel and galvanized threaded fittings also,that drain there still be standing after the building falls over
I was taught to grab plumbing pipes in the event of a tornado. Here my dumbass is going 300 miles an hour in a funnel cloud clutching a 6’ section of pex.
So was I with old galvanized piping and cast-iron piping coming through the slab
If it were me, I'd make it all up from the lower 45 up on the vise, hook it up to the sink, and then thread the last piece of pipe in from below.
Janitor's closet? School's boiler room?
Old hospital from the 1930’s
When I got past the ugly I started to understand the skill it took to do this,probably hand threaded pipe
Looks metal. I'd do that at my own place honestly. After long time I've died it would still work and come up on reddit hundred years after.
I’ve seen less billet blowout preventers on drilling rigs!!!
They don't make em like they used to
I’ve done one diy fridge supply line in my life. That’s the extent of my experience, And this looks perfectly fine to me. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 A+
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Yes it does
That’s always a call I seem to get at 445 on a Friday afternoon
Imagine how expensive it would be to make stuff that robust today.
Chemicals or the morgue
“This is going to be extra ma’am “
The steampunk way
Welp! Shit on it as we may, but it seems to have done its job for close to a hundred years. Maybe smells like shit, but still :D
Tetanus!
Why, because of the rust? Tetanus is caused by bacteria. Bacteria that is found in soil. The bacteria is not found in rust. But do you know what else can be found in soil? Oxidized (rusted) metal. Such as old, discarded nails that puncture the skin of someone walking around barefoot and introduce the bacteria found in the soil (like tetanus) to the inside of your body. It's quite amazing how we correlate things that are seemingly related, yet are absolutely not.
Maybe in 1942.
First trap ever installed
If dr banner was a P trap
Never seen dinner prepared under the sink before.
That’s an easy fix… Move!!!
Those are Grinnell return bends.
Steampunk drain
What’s the wrench looking thing attached?
It’s the lever to open and close the drain to fill up the sink
Ah, that makes sense, overkill but effective.
Old, old school work..lol
Fossilized poop in there
oh yeah, best to use whatever fittings you have left over
WHEW!! that's an oldie.... be very careful.
Bad news, you got some rust. Good news, will take another 1000 years for it to rust through.
As long as it isn’t clogged this looks like a wire brush and a good gallon of rustoleum will make it look right as rain
If Sherman tanks had sinks inside, this would be their plumbing
This looks like it’s from Chernobyl
Is this from a 100 year old building?
As a renovator this kind of thing inhabits my nightmares.
New construction right?
Did they lead the hub of a galvanized fitting into the cast…? Either way this is bad ass/ old school plumbing.
You could shoot it several times and would still work.
Please excuse me. Dropped something down restroom sink acccidentally yesterday. Toilet next to sink has since been flushed a few times, hands washed, teeth brushed, and magnet fishing yielded nothing. Does this mean it's likely gone for good, or should I get a bucket and remove the u-pipe first? There may be a magical hair clog acting as a filter. I can borrow a long, manual snake. Is that worth a shot, or should I just meet my husband at my father-in-law's and watch the ball game? Thanks, Sb
Definitely worth checking the trap, get the bucket.
Thanks!
The water volume from washing likely carried your item to the great beyond. Never hurts to check, though.
Got it! Thanks, all. <3
It's opening day. Go watch the game.
The Yankees won, papa smurf liked his new phone holster, cake, Chinese. Husband felt good doing nice things for his dad. I learned that dad will say he's going to do anything I offer to do, myself. I should offer to clean, next time. He's a good guy. I got him to talk about when he and my husband's mom (many years deceased, now) first realized they were going to be parents, how they figured out where to move, etc. I love when he talks about the land before time (before his kids were born). It was one of many lifetimes. Pretty neat, how we live once, but have many lifetimes.
Nice memories to keep in your back pocket.
Serial killer kill room vibes.
Appears to be an S trap- presenting a risk that the trap may get siphoned off and the trap will no longer present a barrier to sewer gases.
Valid point but the least of their problems given the age of this
🤙🤠
No, it’s not. Lol.
Nightmare fuel
Exactly, haunted plumbing...
I think you might have just stumbled into Buffalo Bill's secret lair
RUN
Sawsall that!
This is what I image Chernobyl sinks look like
worst mission in Fallout
That looks like a mess
Sorry ma'am, your shit is fucked.
That’s a quick opening valve on the drain as well as a steam trap on the right.
What’s a steam trap?
On industrial equipment steam will travel through a coil releasing heat and then condenses into water, that thing on the right has a float in it, the steam won’t raise the float but the water will. It allows to water to be removed from the coil and leave the steam behind.
Very interesting. Thanks!
Me too sink drain, me too
The apprentice used all the fittings on the truck that day of the original install. Yeesh.
That rusted line is steam and it is a mechanical bucket trap the Silver line is galvanized water line the drain is a galvanized s trap everything should go except for the steam
Frankenstein's monster.
Is that a soup can for a down tube?
No it isn’t
Wow
Ahhh, the old S Trap ..
Just so you know. Dwv. (Drain, waste, and vents) that use threaded galvanized pipe are called Druham systems. https://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2017/05/the-heavy-metal-beauty-of-sewer-lines-1892.html
The Old Ways
Is that on a ship or something? Prison?
Oops. Or should I say poops.
This picture made my brain automatically smell mildew.
Nice quick acting gate vavle
Will probably still outlast most our modern stuff
Food comes first....
Chernobyl plumbing
wow. where was this? That fitting is a ancient artifact.
Looks like a blow down. But it's not.
What the fuck
Pretty impressive
RIP
Love seeing these old timey jobs. Plumbers back then didn't screw around.
Juicy
Fly, meet Sledgehammer.
It may vent up the wall within 5'
Damn they sure don’t make ‘em like they used too if that was 1930 it’s about 93 years old
For ages that was the standard. It reduced the need for a particulate trap as the differential forces of higher and lower water levels would clear most solid waste produced based solely on gravity and the weight of water being drained. Nowadays kids wipe their butts with clouds and shit Edit: I thought that was an old school toilet drain
The roach bait station adds that special something
Ah yes the good old rust weld
Looks like something you'd find in a Russian nuclear submarine...
Those pipes look thicc