| Re: [GMCnet] plumbing questions [message #131785] |
Fri, 24 June 2011 00:22  |
rallymaster
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I think there is now a multi-size crimper that uses vise grips for a
power source.
And there are the push-on (Shark-Bite and similar) connectors. They're
more expensive than the crimped ones.
PEX is great!! And it comes in colors-blue for cold, red for hot, gray
for???
The polybutylene was damaged by constant contact with chlorinated water.
Fortunately, that's not usually a problem in RVs unless the owners were
full-timing. Our whole house is plumbed with polybutylene, and I don't
expect any problems, as our water supply is a spring, and there's no
chlorine anywhere near it.
RonC
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:25:42 -0500 John Gann <John@Castle-Chaos.com>
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> For what it's worth I am going to be replacing all my pressure side
> plumbing with PEX. I used it in the last house I built and also in
> the house we are in now. I love the stuff, it is plastic and super
> easy to work with, and can handle being frozen without splitting.
> Only downside is it takes special crimpers, about a $100 investment
> per size. I seem to recall class action lawsuits with the
> polybutylene piping years ago.
Ron & Linda Clark
1978 Eleganza II
North Plains, ORYGUN
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| Re: [GMCnet] plumbing questions [message #131822 is a reply to message #131785] |
Fri, 24 June 2011 10:11  |
k2gkk
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My daughter and her husband had a house in Navarre Beach, FL
that had been plumbed with that gray polybutylene tubing.
My 2000 Forest River Cedar Creek 30' travel trailer has it
but has had no more than 30 days of total use since purchased.
They had to have the whole house replumbed with something else
and this was paid for by the settlement of the Class Action
Lawsuit by the company that developed/sold that tubing. I'm
not sure, but I seem to remember that it may have been Shell
Oil (now part of BP?).
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> To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:22:48 -0700
> From: rallymaster@juno.com
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] plumbing questions
>
> I think there is now a multi-size crimper that uses vise grips for a
> power source.
> And there are the push-on (Shark-Bite and similar) connectors. They're
> more expensive than the crimped ones.
> PEX is great!! And it comes in colors-blue for cold, red for hot, gray
> for???
>
> The polybutylene was damaged by constant contact with chlorinated water.
> Fortunately, that's not usually a problem in RVs unless the owners were
> full-timing. Our whole house is plumbed with polybutylene, and I don't
> expect any problems, as our water supply is a spring, and there's no
> chlorine anywhere near it.
>
> RonC
>
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:25:42 -0500 John Gann <John@Castle-Chaos.com>
> writes:
> >
> >
> > For what it's worth I am going to be replacing all my pressure side
> > plumbing with PEX. I used it in the last house I built and also in
> > the house we are in now. I love the stuff, it is plastic and super
> > easy to work with, and can handle being frozen without splitting.
> > Only downside is it takes special crimpers, about a $100 investment
> > per size. I seem to recall class action lawsuits with the
> > polybutylene piping years ago.
>
> Ron & Linda Clark
> 1978 Eleganza II
> North Plains, ORYGUN
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| Re: [GMCnet] plumbing questions [message #131902 is a reply to message #131785] |
Fri, 24 June 2011 23:00 |
Ken Burton
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Shell Oil USA is a subsidiarity of and loosely controlled by Royal Dutch Shell out of The Hague, Netherlands. I has and has had several joint ventures with other oil companies. Primarily Texaco. I know of no major cooperation with BP but I'm also not in to oil business. I did some design work for their parent back in the 1990's.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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