I agree. But for the bigger ones like 1” as the op describes, i use the crimping style. For 1/2 and 3/4” I love the “push ins”. Cheers Os
Y’ ever see the crimped copper pipe connections? I really like them - they’re nice enough to be left exposed. j
Anybody who considers pot to be “the plant from hell” is welcome to come help me in my never ending war with southern Kudzu and Poison Oak.
I was taking a look at this a few months ago. Am I correct that this would allow for banking and also allow for interstate commerce? Any links would be appreciated. Thanks RD
I don’t know how to link from this pad but it’s called the MORE act and I think it does ease those silly restrictions. Something that should have been done years ago instead of putting legal weed workers at risk with cash. The bill seeks to take weed off of the federal drug schedule, which prohibits banks from dealing with the proceeds from the sale of legal pot in the states that allow it. I recently read that some Nevada legal sellers would take cash to a casino, convert to chips, play some games and cash out for a check that the banks would accept a deposit with. Business as usual?
That's a lot of laundering for what should be legal money. The bad part is, somebody is still having to use their personal account for business. Up here when legal business's were first allowed, some do gooder from the state gov, made it a point to inform the banking community of every legal owners name. Almost all of them got their personal accounts closed immediately. They even put such a fear of god in the banks that a testing center got shut down and evicted, because the property owner had a loan on the land. I think some of the credit unions got the go ahead to deal with cannabis business's, but last I heard (at least a year ago), none of them had gotten brave enough to let any of them open accounts. It strikes me as ironic, that a business owner can't deposit cannabis money, in the exact same bank that the state deposits cannabis tax money. Legit banking would be the best thing to happen to legal cannabis. Second would be a level business playing field with the IRS that allowed the same business deductions as every other business. cheers os
They are pretty. You do the prettiest copper work BTW, love your dormer! The nice thing about pex is it doesn't explode very easily when frozen. I suspect a lot of folks are switching to that as they repair pipes that burst from a recent freeze. I really feel for all the folks that didn't let their water drip to avoid frozen burst pipes. cheers os
You both bring up some good points. The CBD hemp market provides some insight I believe as to the future of recreational cannabis. That market is saturated. I can buy 99% CBD isolate for $4 a gram, it’s CO2 extracted and the raw product is from an organic certified farm. The extraction rates are similar to THC concentrates in terms of yield. I can envision a similar price point, maybe even lower as technology improves. What would this do to the price and/or demand for flower? Pretty crazy where it could end up going! RD
Do those crimpers and other Pex tools need to be very expensive? I know how tools are a “get what you pay for” thing and I buy quality stuff but I’m wondering if there’s just ones to be avoided? I’d really like to have the tools as I bought a bunch of the pipe some time back. One never knows. I actually had this notion back in the 90s when I owned a “Mill House” in a cotton mill village that was 6 ft off the ground. I was constantly working on plumbing and thought of running garden hose thru the whole place. As for the other topic OS, I’m sure you recall this point in time. I was watching a Cops type show there in Alaska and officer goes to a home looking for a suspect while the lady there had a bag of smoke and joint on the table. Cop tells camera folks upon leaving that he couldn’t say anything about the weed because it was legal in her home. That was years ago but I recall thinking that the law made sense and I liked that idea.
Honestly I have a plumber buddy that I borrowed his crimper for the one big 1" pipe that I have crimped. All other connections. 1/2" & 3/4" I have used the push in pex fittings. If I recall correctly, I couldn't even find push ins for 1" in my area, so I was forced to do it that way. As far as cutters, I just use a cable cutter, tubing cutter (the same one used for copper pipe) or a band saw (anything will work as long as its a clean square cut). I would only spring for an expensive cutter if I was a plumber doing it every day. It wouldn't be worth the expense even if I was doing an entire house. As far as being legal in your own home- before we went legal up here, it was legal to have all the grass you wanted in your own home, and you could have 25 plants. It was kind of technicality, but the Raven act lets us do whatever we want in our own homes, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. What often happened in practice was, the cops would come to a home grow, take all your shit, kill all your plants, and then charge you. After hiring an Attorney and spending a few days in jail, you would be released on bail. Eventually the charges would be dropped and you could claim your now broken equipment back, providing it wasn't accidently lost. Get caught with a joint in your car, that was a different story. They threw the book at ya, or just let ya go depending on the officer in question. cheers os
Yeah, but I am doing a tankless Rinnai going into a Viega 24 port manifold. Had to crimp the 1" Main Barb, and then I have the 1/2" crimp fittings to tie into the manifold. Most the faucet fittings and washer fittings are all push on HT
Poison Ivy, Oak, Sumac......down here in Texas you cant stop that shit from growing. Cannabis was either brought here by aliens or created by Yah himself.....either or, have them step on a bull nettle and tell us that again HT
We made it through the freeze leaving all our pipes dripping. It was when I went to intall this new Rinnai 11gpm tankless water heater. Put a little torque with my pipe wrenches to undo a coupling and the cold inlet just snapped of the base from rust. Had to instantly go roll a fattie and decide what to do.......after a long smoke and some logical thinking I hopped online and ordered a 1" 100ft roll to get from the water main to my Manifold and Tankless inside with a cutoff somewhere in between, and grabbed 400ft total of 1/2" red and blue. Waiting on my proprietary fitting from Viega,......assholes should include them if their not standard thread but it is what it is....$63 later and I am waiting on fittings. Clean filtered water for the fam and the ladies in the back, and the grand lure of infinite hot water keeps me pushing forward. Hope everyone is well today HT