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Old 11/7/06, 8:52 PM
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Default Can you ID all these pipes?

Quiz of the day:

Who can name all the materials of these pipes? Oh yea... I really had to suck up the gut to fit under that floor...
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Looks like PB to me. . .



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Agree with Jeff. What year was the house built.
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The red and white look like PEX.



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Pex, PB, and CSST?
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The red and white look like PEX.
Although grey is the most common color, PB was also manufactured in white, red, blue and black.



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Although grey is the most common color, PB was also manufactured in white, red, blue and black.
How bout yellow?............................Senor Zinsco........
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Pex, PB, and CSST?
Hi Dale,

Good % bet on that one, can't be wrong

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The home was built in 1917, and is a limestone rock and beam type foundation.

I can tell the grey pipe is PB, but was not sure about the other stuf, and the large yellow line is a gas line. For the sake of there being PB, I am going to rec a plumber to come look at it, and give an opinion, it's all dry however, with no leaks to be found.



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The home was built in 1917, and is a limestone rock and beam type foundation.

I can tell the grey pipe is PB, but was not sure about the other stuf, and the large yellow line is a gas line. For the sake of there being PB, I am going to rec a plumber to come look at it, and give an opinion, it's all dry however, with no leaks to be found.
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The tell is in the fittings and connectors. A closer look at the pipe should reveal its PB listing (except for the yellow one )

Send your clients here when you find PB http://www.pbpipe.com



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Jeff,

What's with the lack of (your) Zinsco pictures in the (Not for Everyone) section?.......... .....I mean the electrical section...!..........

Come-on man, freak us out would ya...............

I miss them smoldering Santa Zinsco Clarita panels..............
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Hi Dale,

Good % bet on that one, can't be wrong

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Thanks Gerry.....I got two right.............
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What's with the lack of (your) Zinsco pictures in the (Not for Everyone) section?.....
I don't want to keep posting the same old boring things, only ones that are worse than the previous.

Today's was quite "clean" actually. . .
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Damn Jeff, looks like it might of been a left over, recently installed....
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