Love, Necessity and Pride

[GT1000000]

Pick on me all you want, my friend...:smile:
As in the previous "test" I conducted above [ post # 2308], I was able to heat it soft enough to bend without kinking...without sand...then again, this is only 1.5" diameter and made of solid PVC.

I would have to totally agree that packing the sand into the pipe and capping both ends may have done part of the trick, this is after all a 3" inside diameter pipe...

I still think a majority of it has to do with the different layers used to make up this DWV PVC...you can get the outer skin hot enough, but the foam layer between doesn't seem to transmit the same heat to the inner skin...IDK, maybe...:noidea:

Back when, we could heat PVC, rotisserie style, under a long heating element and make it do some wild stuff...

In my time crunched world, I just had to try and make it happen as fast as possible and git-r-dun!...

and like the song says...
It was the heat of the moment...

In the end, lessons learned...
1- Sometimes trying to save some money, costs more in time than its worth...
2- Ends up that by spending a few extra bucks, the various fittings available can usually work just fine...
3- No matter what, though...unless you do all this stuff for a living, its hard to try and figure it out on the fly...

Using the fittings available from the Mfg., and being 3" inside diameter, all the control cables and harnesses will go through the bends just fine...along with a bit of custom engineering...

Oh and thanks for the idea on the heating element to bend PVC, nurseman...but that ain't gonna happen...:shocked:

Anyhow, I appreciate all the input but the final word on this part of the project is that I will be using the fittings available to make the bends necessary on this foam cored 3" pipe...
I will be limiting any PVC bending to smaller diameter stuff, 2" or less...

Happy 2's day...

 

[Woodonglass]

Yeah well like I said, I've only bent small stuff and small sections sooo, wasn't bustin yer chops just makin observation. IF we ever get to meet up, you can properly kick by behind all over the yard and thump my noggin a bit too!!!! I'll just shuffle over to the corner now, and put on the Pointy Hat!!!



I'm REAL used to wearing it!!!:lol:

 

[saginawbayboater]

Pick on me all you want, my friend...:smile:
I would have to totally agree that packing the sand into the pipe and capping both ends may have done part of the trick, this is after all a 3" inside diameter pipe...

GT I think Wood may have meant, go pound sand, not pack it? :facepalm: any who's the Bassassin is looking great!!!!!!

 

[GT1000000]

No chops were actually busted in this thread...:becky:

Finally got a pic of this funky Foam Cored DWV PVC...hope it shows up...





OK, starting to narrow down the starboard chases...





Got some big holes to drill, run a water line...later...

More eventually, happy camel day!

 

[sphelps]

Am I the only one that had to listen to the whole song ?:facepalm:
Followed up with some Kansas though .. :rockon:

 

[Woodonglass]

That's some FREAKY Pipe! Where did you get that stuff?

 

[sphelps]

H/D has it . Used it on the sil's bathroom renovation . The main run . A bit cheaper than sch 40 ....

 

[Pmccraney]

Hey Gus -
Just stopping by to say hello and congrats on the 3 year run at this project... I took a bit of a hiatus from this site when things went haywire, but I try to check in on my peeps and their progress from time to time.

Boat is coming along great.

Hope all is well with you and yours.
Take care,

 

[bungee49]

will remember this when i take mine all apart next year,now have you been able to do anuthing on your tower of power also? or is that going to be done after the boat is completed? just curious,have a great day GUS.

 

[GT1000000]

Am I the only one that had to listen to the whole song ?:facepalm:
Followed up with some Kansas though .. :rockon:

Nah...I got hooked on it and listened to it twice...

That's some FREAKY Pipe! Where did you get that stuff?

H/D has it . Used it on the sil's bathroom renovation . The main run . A bit cheaper than sch 40 ....

Lowes...
for some reason, I couldn't seem to find 3" solid core sch 40 PVC...I admit, I didn't even stop to ask...come to think of it, :spider:,I don't recall the difference ever crossed my mind at the time...

Hey Gus -
Just stopping by to say hello and congrats on the 3 year run at this project... I took a bit of a hiatus from this site when things went haywire, but I try to check in on my peeps and their progress from time to time.

Boat is coming along great.

Hope all is well with you and yours.
Take care,

Thanks Patrick,

Back at ya, bro!

I'll keep pluggin away at this tub till it floats, ya know...?:fish2:

will remember this when i take mine all apart next year,now have you been able to do anuthing on your tower of power also? or is that going to be done after the boat is completed? just curious,have a great day GUS.

Actually...my ToP power unit was refreshed a couple of years back [ way back in post #889 ] and has been patiently sitting in its packing box awaiting the day it gets to once again, Tower over the Bassassin...:eyebrows:

News Bulletin...
Got the Admiral's go ahead for an early Christmas present for the boat...more details as they become available...:spy: ... ...

And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming...



Happy FRIIIIIII-DAY !!!

 

[Trooper82]

Gus, happy anniversary...progress and planning looking great.....as well as execution...carry on .....Kansas?

 

[sphelps]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_2IdybTV0

Gus, happy anniversary...progress and planning looking great.....as well as execution...carry on .....Kansas?

 

[Trooper82]

Yup Sam that's the one.....knew some one would see my riddle....

 

[GT1000000]

Last Saturday, 11-1, got some more plumbing work done to the boat, while contemplating some serious plumbing in the house...the porcelain throne blew a gasket and needed immediate attention...



Solved that issue by midday and spent the rest of the afternoon taking care of chores with intermittent spurts of passing by the boat...

Sunday, 11-2, was more of the same with the biggest difference being I opened some new holes throughout the hull...









klik the pic...4 short vid...



Then throughout the rest of the week I messed with the bilge plumbing...



More soon...

 

[sphelps]

So it took an angle grinder and your great grandfathers jig saw to fix the porcelain pony ! You must be really abusing that thing ! :lol:
Looks like the chase is gunna work just fine !

 

[GT1000000]

OK, so... installed the bilge outlet with attached PEX pipe...new experiment...s'posed to be able to heat and bend, plus it can be form fit to the barb of the thru-hull...





Using a heat gun to bend, seems to work really well...apply a good bit of over all around heat to it, bend it to shape, or if you want, slip it over a barbed fitting, hold till cooled off, and continue or repeat as needed...

If you want it completely kink free, then you can stuff it full of sand and get some nice mandrel bends...I di'n't...

End of the week coming soon and really looking forward to the following week...gonna be off, getting the homestead ready for some serious plumbing issues...
Busted main drain...:facepalm:
Ah well among all the prepping and moving about to get ready for the invasion of home wreckers, I will get to spend some quality time with the 'ol boat...

And "The Package" should be arriving soon...

 

[GT1000000]

OK, so up to now...

11-8-2014, Saturday again...

Been a hectic week at the greenback production facility and I am just getting back to getting these posts up...

Today started out like any other day, I woke up...

Started clearing out some space to make moving stuff around in prep for the plumbing project, then Gabo swung by and offered to help install the new steering system in Pedro's Boat...

Took us a couple of hours to fish everything out and back in...I only got pics of the empty box and the new system already installed...





I was also anxiously awaiting the arrival of "The Package"...that never came...

Then the day got crazy...

After getting very upset with the package delivery company, I was finally able to convince them to allow me to pick up the package at their terminal...

I go...I get there...about 13 miles from home...my van literally blows the water pump...ah well, its the original,and I do have tow truck connections...
Well I am already at the shipping terminal, so I try to retrieve "The Package"...at first they say, "It's not here..." ...

WHAaaaaaaattt...???:frusty:

"Oh no we found it", they say and I finally get it...

Now to walk out to the parking lot and await my tow truck...

Thanks to "connections"...tow truck is only a few minutes away...just long enough to get over my blown up van, look at my new toy, and chill out...



Tow truck shows up, guy I know, takes me home, even sticks around for a few minutes to check out the "Bassassin"...

Get my van into position for the upcoming surgery...

Then put that mission on the back burner so I can check out the latest addition for the boat...





Spent the next hour or so, trying to figure out the correct geometric position for the steering cylinder and finally got it figured out just in time to start grillin some well earned steaks...

End of Saturday...

More to come...L8R 2Day...

 

[jbcurt00]

Bassassin looking good Gus, sorry to hear plumbing & van trouble.

Have a great pending week

 

[IUPapabear]

Sorry for your Van and plumbing problems!!!! Work on the Boat looks great though !!!!!!
My progress is at a complete stand still at the moment so I am loving living my boat itch through the bassasin !!!
That doesn't sound creepy at all, does it????

 

[ahmincha]

Sorry to hear about your troubles gt but I have been in houses with less plumbing then the Bassassin LOL