With the tubing expanded, I have a few seconds to push it onto the elbow fitting in the wall. I couldn't see if I was hitting the prongs of the fitting to be sure I had it on all the way, but it was stopping, so I think it was good.

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I stuck my phone in the wall and took a picture so I could hopefully see if the tubing was on the elbow fitting all the way. Looks like it was. The white ring is touching those prongs. I'm sure with more experience, I would just know by feel that it was fine.

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So I did the same thing with the hot water side, and I'm holding the fitting in place for a moment while the pex tubing contracts and clamps down tight on the fitting.

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And this was the upstairs sink all done. From the time stamps on the photos, this took me 25 minutes, but a lot of that was going down to the basement to get tools I had forgotten, and I wasn't rushing at all.

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Yes, a Sawzall is most valuable and can be use to make milkshakes or martinis in the slow times. ;)

This is one of the reasons I live in an apartment. I've played This Old House before it's not that fun.

It was fun when I could do the prep work at my own pace. Yesterday wasn't so much fun.

Way to close the deal man! It was a pain but you did it without getting ripped off by a plumbing company. Somebody needs to give you a pat on the back.

Rock and Roll !!!!!!

"I replumbed the house"

#veryimpressed

#flairforunderstatement

Point of interest, my plumber buddy says Lowe's has the best selection of plumbing parts he's ever seen. They even have stuff in stock, the plumbing supply houses have to order.

I'm slowly removing the old pipe to get it out of the way. This is a short segment of vertical section about three feet above the shut off valve, right where the water enters the house. 3/4 inch diameter. I'm holding it over a flashlight so you can see the insides well.

Crazy huh?
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There may be gold in those deposits. ;)

*shudder*

My house is 19 years old - does my plumbing look like that, too? If it does, I'm going to have to start showering with bottled water. :(

Did you hear about The Fatberg?

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...sewer-blockage

These pipes are 70 years old. Your 19 year old pipes are perfectly fine.

The fatberg is disgusting.

And just for completeness's sake, this is after.
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:eek:

After? Or just the new pipe? Did you clean all that gunk out yourself?

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Sorry. That blue pipe is a brand new pipe.

Fatberg was the result of clueless people who feel when it leaves their sight, it's not their problem anymore.

glatts pipe looks yucky, but it's just rust and dirt that blocks flow and migrates until it gets to fixture workings or strainers. But it's not germ and disease bearing like sewage, and you could swallow it without killing yourself. Usually it's the stuff you can't see that's harmful.

A little rust never hurt nobody. Ask any 70s Chevy pick-up.

Zing! :D

:jig:

Am I nesting? Even I question the need to do this, but I replaced the garbage disposal gasket. The old one was cracked in 4 or 5 places. My wife had mentioned that it was too bad a new garbage disposal was a little bit expensive and it wasn't worth getting a new one just because the gasket was getting nasty. So I knew you could just replace the gasket. And it was only about half the work of installing a whole new disposal because you can leave the dishwasher and electric still connected as you replace the gasket.
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Heh... when's your second one going off to college?

Remember Years Ago When We Thought Our Commutes Would Be Interesting to Someone?
 

I have a vague memory from possibly seven or eight years back that some of us thought it would be interesting if we shot stills or even video of our daily commutes. Apparently, we felt it might share a little bit of our daily realities. Why we ever thought this was a good idea escapes me, but I remember it was the case.

Well, technology has advanced and gotten cheaper since then, and so I am now able to bring you this: a 360 degree spherical 4k video of my commute home from work yesterday. You're welcome. Do not attempt to enjoy unless you have unlimited and pretty snappy bandwidth.

Hmm. The 360 wrapping doesn't work, at least on my iPhone.

Odd...now I have to try it on mine...it certainly is displaying as 360 when I play it via this link or directly on YouTube.

I was able to play it properly via the YouTube app on my iPhone. Pull up that app and Search "elspode". It should be available there.

Or don't waste your time. It is a novelty at best. :D

Works for me in youtube. Cool!

Must be a tapatalk thing.

Both here, and on youtube, I have to use the direction arrows in the circle at the upper left hand corner to move the direction of the camera. Sure is flat.

I live in rural PA. We wouldn't want high speed internet, apparently.

I've been researching rural "broadband" for my son, who lives in the sprawling metropolis of Rich Hill, MO. Despite living within 100' of a major North/South Interstate highway, his options are shitty, shittier, and shittiest. At best, he can get a 25mbps satellite pipe at $80/month with a 12gb monthly data cap, which gets throttled to 1 mbps if you go over it. Cost? $85 after taxes. Sucks. Every other option is slower and more expensive and requires a phone line because it is all DSL.

So you are't seeing it as a spherical video? Just as the whole thing spread out like a mercator projection?

Yes, I have to swivel the camera like Google street view on Verizon Fios 80Mb.

Still confused. I mean, you *do* have to swivel the camera view, either using the directional "pad" in the upper left, or by clicking and holding in the field of the picture, and dragging the view around. That's the normal way it works...

Apparently, I need a video of you trying to view the video...:blush:

Works for me, too. Click, hold, 'n' drag. Really cool, 'Spode.

I like.

I wonder, if'n I save the vid, would the 360 degree part work on a PS3?

Vid plays, but, ya can't drag the vid around to see 360 in WinMediaPlayer. The hood is split in half, onto opposing sides of the screen, and you're watching where ya been.

Yup...gotta be a codec issue, then. I had to download Hero's GoPro 3D software (free) to be able to play the videos locally on my PC outside of the software used to create the videos in the first place. Of course, this doesn't explain why Bruce isn't seeing it when played on YouTube, cuz Youtube is supposed to handle that external to your computer.

Or...maybe not, because I played it on my TV via the built in YouTube app that is part of the Google Fiber TV box software, and it wouldn't do 360 on the TV as it was doing it on my laptop in YouTube. Bottom line: I don't know how this shit works in the first place. I suspect Black Magic, but clearly I need to learn more if am to exploit this device.

When I open it in youtube on my iPhone it's cool because it does that thing where if you move you phone around and up and down you see different parts of the video, but the really unuasal thing is that when you first start the video, you are facing backwards. To see where you are driving, you have to turn around. I wonder if your camera has a "front" and "back" you are supposed to pay attention to when you start it?

Also, you should have mounted it to the center of your hood so we can watch you drive.

Not sure why it defaults to the rear hemisphere on start up. I may have missed a setting when processing. The feature of having it move when you tilt your phone is useful if you have a VR viewer, because you can pull the field out with a reverse screen pinch so that it fills the field (becomes no longer circular), and you can stick the phone in the viewer and then turn your bod to see the immersion effect.

I'm researching clampable mounts for this reason. Well, not for this exact reason, but for greater ability to mount in interesting situations. For this, I stuck it on the end of my selfie stick, extended it out of the sunroof (that much is probably obvious), and squeezed it tight in the gap by closing the glass down on it. Held it pretty stable.

Yes, exactly. I was expecting to see 360 on the screen but I have to move it.
Great porn frontiers ahead. :thumb:

for me, in youtube, I can click/hold/grab the screen anywhere and drag it around in all directions, no clicking arrows required.

That's how it is supposed to work, so that's a good thing.

Yes, that works too, but I didn't discover that until after the arrows.
I didn't know I could do that in Google street view.:smack:

This is sort of a poor man's version of Street View...without the correlation to geocoordinates. Yet.

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Out of the box last night:

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This morning, after proofing overnight:
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Out of oven:
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They don't look half bad!

They were really good. As good as any from a bakery.

Seems like an opportunity to get your household hooked on Great British Bake-off. You will reap what you sow. :)

But the French do it better. :haha:

Trader Joe's stuff is pretty good, stuffed peppers are great

I like the Chicken Teriyaki stir fry served over a bed of jasmine rice, personally. Love Trader Joe's, but not very convenient to me and a tad pricey.