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From: Daniel Prince on 5 Oct 2009 21:14
My brother just discovered that one of the Tee fittings on our lawn
sprinkler system is stripped. He says that the new nipple screws in
part way and then just stops. The Tee has glue connections on two
sides with a threaded female fitting on the top where a nipple for a
sprinkler head screws in.

The Tee is about nine inches deep. On one side there is another PVC
pipe less than half an inch away. On the other side, the sidewalk
is about four inches away.

Is there an easy way to repair this Tee without digging up and
replacing the Tee fitting? Replacing the Tee would be difficult
because of the pipe on one side and the sidewalk on the other.

Thank you in advance for all replies.
--
Whenever I hear or think of the song "Great green gobs of greasy
grimey gopher guts" I imagine my cat saying; "That sounds REALLY,
REALLY good. I'll have some of that!"
From: Mike Easter on 5 Oct 2009 21:35
Daniel Prince wrote:
> My brother just discovered that one of the Tee fittings on our lawn
> sprinkler system is stripped. He says that the new nipple screws in
> part way and then just stops. The Tee has glue connections on two
> sides with a threaded female fitting on the top where a nipple for a
> sprinkler head screws in.
>
> The Tee is about nine inches deep. On one side there is another PVC
> pipe less than half an inch away. On the other side, the sidewalk
> is about four inches away.
>
> Is there an easy way to repair this Tee without digging up and
> replacing the Tee fitting? Replacing the Tee would be difficult
> because of the pipe on one side and the sidewalk on the other.
>
> Thank you in advance for all replies.

I recently had to replace the PVC fitting similarly 'underground' and I
didn't want to do a lot of digging.

The situation wasn't as tight or demanding as you are describing, but I
dug a fairly narrow hole to expose the pipe and its fitting. I used a
flexible cable type cutter to cut the pipe, but the old fitting for the
riser was only an L, so that made its replacement easier than your T
situation.

The most common way those threaded risers break off is either down close
to or inside the threads, which can leave a piece of threaded pipe riser
inside.

If the cause of the problem is just that there is a piece of threaded
PVC down inside, there is a tool that you can use to unscrew it. You
need an accurate diagnosis of whether you are dealing with stripped
threads or a piece of pipe down in there. If it is just a piece of
pipe, the tool will unscrew it magically.


--
Mike Easter

From: VanguardLH on 5 Oct 2009 23:50
Daniel Prince wrote:

> My brother just discovered that one of the Tee fittings on our lawn
> sprinkler system is stripped. He says that the new nipple screws in
> part way and then just stops. The Tee has glue connections on two
> sides with a threaded female fitting on the top where a nipple for a
> sprinkler head screws in.
>
> The Tee is about nine inches deep. On one side there is another PVC
> pipe less than half an inch away. On the other side, the sidewalk
> is about four inches away.
>
> Is there an easy way to repair this Tee without digging up and
> replacing the Tee fitting? Replacing the Tee would be difficult
> because of the pipe on one side and the sidewalk on the other.
>
> Thank you in advance for all replies.

Oh, the lawn sprinkler system hooks into the water cooling system in
your computer to make your post on-topic to this newsgroup?
From: Daniel Prince on 6 Oct 2009 00:13
VanguardLH <V(a)nguard.LH> wrote:

>Oh, the lawn sprinkler system hooks into the water cooling system in
>your computer to make your post on-topic to this newsgroup?

I thought I was putting the message in alt.home.repair. I have the
neurological illness Myalgic Encephalomyelitis which causes me to
make stupid mistakes when I am tired. I was tired when I wrote the
message.
--
I don't understand why they make gourmet cat foods. I have
known many cats in my life and none of them were gourmets.
They were all gourmands!
From: Daniel Prince on 6 Oct 2009 14:32
"Mike Easter" <MikeE(a)ster.invalid> wrote:

>Daniel Prince wrote:
>
>> I have the
>> neurological illness Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
>
>CFS is no less controversial (or problematic) no matter what you name
>it.

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is the original name of the illness. It
has a good definition. In 1969 it was recognized by the World
Health Organization as a neurological illness.

In 1984 and 1985 there was an outbreak of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
in the Lake Tahoe area. In 1987 the CDC sent two inexperienced
epidemiologists to the area to investigate. They spent about two
hours looking at charts. They said they needed to have lunch. They
left and never came back.

In 1988 the CDC pretended that the Lake Tahoe outbreak was a new
illness. They named it CFS over the objections of ALL of the
doctors on the committee who had ever examined a patient with
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. They did this to make it easier for
public and private health and disability insurers to deny claims.

Since 1988 the CDC has changed the definition of "CFS" several
times. Each time they made the definition more vague so that it
will include more people who do not have Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
and who actually have a mental illness instead.
--
I don't understand why they make gourmet cat foods. I have
known many cats in my life and none of them were gourmets.
They were all gourmands!
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