Thanks xoB for the praise. The thought of "short cuts" on this job kinda gives me the heebie jeebies Just... hell no thank you.
Got the curly bulb, check. As for the channel locks, yeah, channel locks. Except for the part where I needed to turn one pipe piece against another pipe piece, then I used the pipe wrench too.
The black handled channel locks, they're from Craftsman, I bought it at a junk/thrift store for five bucks. They're brand new, or they were before I christened them. As you might be able to make out in the solo picture, they do say pipe wrench on them. And they have the perpendicular bite like a pipe wrench compared to the channel locks shown here just for comparison. I didn't use the blue handled ones. They're just there for comparison, even the big one. I can't ever seem to get the pipe wrenches to bite where I want them to bite. As you can see from some of the shots, my range of motion for the wrench was often extremely limited.
