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02-12-19, 02:55 PM
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PSA Check your toliet tank seals
No joking, being serious here
If you have a two piece toilet, especially one a few years old, check the seals on the bolts securing the tank to the toilet. If they look funky replace them! Costs about $20 dollars and is so easy even I can do it. Why? A coworker of mine just had one of the seals on one of the bolts fail. This caused the water to drain out of the tank. But it was not just the 4-5 gallons in the tank, the lowering of the water level triggered the tank flowing mechanism and it ran for hours. She had a hundred gallons of water if not more all over her house when she got home last night. The seal must have failed that morning. This is a case of where an ounce of prevention can avoid hundreds/thousands of dollars in damage. It happened in her upstairs bathroom so she has floor/ceiling damage.  Check those seals! They do not fail safe!
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02-12-19, 02:58 PM
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Chief of the Boat
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Uncanny, I saw mine leaking a year ago and changed the seal.
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02-12-19, 03:43 PM
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Changed mine after developing a leak a few years ago.
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02-12-19, 03:47 PM
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a general rule of thumb never use the 'automatic toilet tank cleaners" either ( the cleaning tabs people place in the tank), the chemicals shorten the life of the seals.
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02-12-19, 05:23 PM
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In the Brig
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Wow welcome too the twilight zone. Mine was leaking last night had to tighten up the tank bolts.
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02-12-19, 06:15 PM
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 tanks....seals....bolts.....water?? Like this is great mystery to diehard  'rs?(THINK DAMAGE CONTROL) Don't stop with the upper tank bolts BBY; do the base gasket  at the floor sewer-pipe too and check the floor bolt's for CORROSION too! No sense doing...a half-assed job as long as you're already on your knees, wrench in hand
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02-12-19, 06:26 PM
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I have heard that also.
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02-12-19, 06:31 PM
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leave it to you to explain this with a degree of eloquence.  I'm sure I saw something similar when I watched Das Boot this past weekend. I replaced a few seals in the bathrooms over the summer as part of routine maintenance while replacing the float mechanism and other pieces in the toilet as well.
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02-12-19, 06:48 PM
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I have an idea.
You who can't get enough of SH-games and Das Boot. Dime the light in the room where the toilet is-change it to weak red. Put a smoke generator in there too and set it to low. Smear oil and other stuff around the toilet Arrange som type of firecracker outside this room Imagine you are on a sub, who are submerged and under attack and you have to fix an important vault of some kind. Markus |
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02-12-19, 07:02 PM
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 SO I GOTTA LIVE UPT TO BILLING; AND OF COURSE AS A DEVOTED R IN MY OWN WRITE (SODA SPEKE) CORROSION ABOARD A UBOAT CAN GET SERIOUSLY OUTTA HAND!! SO DON'T DO A HALF-ASSED JOB!
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02-12-19, 08:28 PM
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 Comedian Steven Wright once said he stands in the shower with the water running and pretends he is in a submarine that has been hit.  This might be an interesting idea in a sub simulator provided you can avoid being electrocuted. Quote:
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02-12-19, 09:30 PM
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Not long ago I bought a rental that had a cast iron solid tub, had to weigh 500 lbs. The good news was the basement under it, rather than try to pull it and get it through 3 door openings, cut the floor from underneath with a sawzall and out one door.
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02-12-19, 10:23 PM
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In the Brig
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All those years of drills and Damage Control training went into action. I sounded GQ, the wife manned DC Central while I set secured the source and made repairs. We had that flooding under control in no time! After Action Report revealed it was a new head and the installer (me ) hadn't tightened the fasteners all that well to begin with.
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02-13-19, 11:30 AM
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I don't think anyone EVER had to replace those seals until they started being made in China.
 It's a bit comforting to think that this is what the Chinese Navy has to look forward to with every system on board having an inferior gasket or seal. Unless they're only sending us the junk, and keeping the good stuff for themselves? I just replaced a set a few years ago, first time I ever heard of anyone having to do that.
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A NEW SLANT ON PATRIOTIC GASKETRY FROM' FROM FLUIDMASTER
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 ....MADE IN AMERICA! ! https://www.fluidmaster.com/about-fluidmaster/history/I MEAN REALLY; IF I'M GOING TO POLLUTE THE VERY WATERS I GO SAILING IN, I MAY AS WELL BE PATRIOTIC ABOUT IT  ....AND POLITICLLY CORRECT : THAT 1960'S SEWERLINE I DUG UP AND DISPOSED OF CORRECTLY IN MY FRONT YARD (4' DEEP!) TO REPLACE IS ASBESTOS FREE! Quote:
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