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Old 10-02-2012, 12:19 AM   #6
BigV
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Then the elbow, then the long pipe.


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Then, trouble. Instruction number three reads "Tighten pipe to ANSI standards." Yeah, right. Who knows what that means. As I got the long pipe on, it acted as a long lever and gravity loosened the tee/nipple/elbow connection. Now this was my second biggest worry abou this installation. I'd feared that the install would require me to turn an elbow to a specific direction and tightness, but that those two qualities would not both be acceptable at the same time. In this case, I turned the elbow until it was (kinda) tight, not over tight, but so it was pointing in the right direction. I then found out that THAT particular rotation was not tight enough.


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So, it had to be taken apart and turned another 300 degrees to make it line up properly again and be another turn *tighter*.


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I put the bracket back on so I could put some real torque on the long pipe.
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