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Hi! I live in New York City, which may be relevant to this situation because of the laws regarding old water mains made of lead. Here's what's happening: The NYC Water Dept was inspecting my water meter-- which was fine-- but the inspector noticed a tiny leak in the water main before the water...

voletl says, "Oh it may taste like a sour cream donut but it is not a true Dunkin Donuts sour cream donut but a piece of crap Half Baked imposter that just won't get the job done so please be wary that if you go and try to get these succulent treats always know that some people will pass off...

Diehard says to me, "LOL Wow! You're really pushing your luck by making this a public question to the forum after the beating you took the last time." Diehard, when people spew vitriol and mockery at you without even knowing you, it says nothing about you and everything about them. So I...

Hi! I'm the one who roiled the forum in early September by asking how I might stop a tiny water leak near the boiler in my gravity (no pump) hot water heating system. I'd already done some preliminary research and made several phone calls to manufacturers, and I was inclined to use J-B Weld...

Hi! As I'm about to tackle the repair that some around here insist upon calling a **** fix, I have a few details I want to clarify, mainly about the roughening of the surface of the metal so that it bonds well with the epoxy. I bought a high-carbon-steel wire brush, and I experimented with it...

I want to thank everyone for their contributions, even frodo, who says about me, "I do not care what the op wants to do to because they are cheap and lazy". Yikes! frodo, I guess I admit to being a little cheap (though I prefer to consider myself sensibly frugal) but lazy????? No, not at all...

Thank you for your input, Diehard! You say, "I must also assume that there is no easy way to take it apart and redo it." Well, given that I had a little trouble taking apart my Tinker Toys when I was a child, there's definitely no easy way for ME to take the pipes apart and redo it! You say...

Hi! I have what I initially thought was a very SIMPLE problem, but... Here's the situation: I have a tiny leak but it's in a pipe that does NOT carry water under pressure. It's in my hot-water HEATING system, and I have the old-fashioned kind of hot-water system-- without a pump to...