OT: I know we have a few plumbers on this site.

[Black Forest]

Someone sent this to me. I thought it was funny as hell. Me I would have moved the clock but to each his own. Especially the caption.

[eKretz]

Somebody must have REALLY wanted that clock in just the right spot!

[I make chips]

Union plumber by the hour.

[old mart]

I can imagine him silently cursing the customer for being so picky.

[outlawspeeder]

Or they did not want to pay the electrician to move the outlet the clock is plugged into?

[Black Forest]

Or they did not want to pay the electrician to move the outlet the clock is plugged into?

I would bet that is a battery operated clock. We have one in the barn that looks exactly like the one in the picture.

[plunger]

Kudos to the plumber. Bending pipe is a lost art amongst plumbers of today. Now we use flexible braided pipe or composite or pex pipe.

[Tom S]

Kudos to the plumber. Bending pipe is a lost art amongst plumbers of today. Now we use flexible braided pipe or composite or pex pipe.

Ha I though exactly the same thing. Nice smooth bending job with minimal pressure drop.

[Paul Alciatore]

From your avatar and user name, I suspect you may be a plumber. Or, at least, you like that profession.

That's copper tube - probably SOFT copper tube and the stuff comes in coils that you usually need to straighten out in use. I once bought a 50 foot coil that I used for cooling air from a compressor. I kept the coil shape, just stretching it to about ten feet tall. But bending it was dead easy. Straightening it was actually more difficult.

Kudos to the plumber. Bending pipe is a lost art amongst plumbers of today. Now we use flexible braided pipe or composite or pex pipe.

[Tungsten dipper]

Don't forget Electricians! They can bend conduit as well.

[chipmaker4130]

From your avatar and user name, I suspect you may be a plumber. Or, at least, you like that profession.

That's copper tube - probably SOFT copper tube and the stuff comes in coils that you usually need to straighten out in use. I once bought a 50 foot coil that I used for cooling air from a compressor. I kept the coil shape, just stretching it to about ten feet tall. But bending it was dead easy. Straightening it was actually more difficult.

Nope, Paul. Standard rigid copper tube (in the US, at least) is NOT soft. It is not easy to bend like that. In fact, if you silver braze a joint instead of soft-solder, you have to de-rate the pressure limit of the tube by a huge amount due to annealing the copper.

[Tom S]

Nope, Paul. Standard rigid copper tube (in the US, at least) is NOT soft. It is not easy to bend like that. In fact, if you silver braze a joint instead of soft-solder, you have to de-rate the pressure limit of the tube by a huge amount due to annealing the copper.

You can purchase both soft (annealed) copper and hard copper. Soft comes in coils, hard comes in lengths. Soft may not be on the shelf of you local home store, it's used more for gas, propane, and AC applications and would be readily available via wholesaler.

[plunger]

You can purchase both soft (annealed) copper and hard copper. Soft comes in coils, hard comes in lengths. Soft may not be on the shelf of you local home store, it's used more for gas, propane, and AC applications and would be readily available via wholesaler.

In my country you get different grades . Class 0 is hard drawn and thin walled. It cannot be bent. Only used for external work. Class 1 is a thin walled soft drawn pipe capable of being bent to 45 degrees . Its used for chased work in walls. Class 2 is soft drawn thick walled and can be bent to 180 degrees . Its used in concrete slabs. All these come in straight lengths of 5,5meters.
Paul the stuff you used is class 3 and is bought in coils. Plumbers have never seen the stuff. Its used by refrigerant companies and is brazed using copper to copper rods rather than soft solder that plumbers use.

I was taught to bend pipe but the lighties of today are clueless. They don't even own a bending tool. Its sad in a way because the skill is gone.

[J Tiers]

Iron pipe is another lost art in the plumbing world.... So is soldered copper.

The guys who have done work here recently ONLY use crimped copper, with the o-ring in the bulge. I don't like it, but that's what they do, and ALL they do.

[Paul Alciatore]

Well, excuse me but I have purchased soft copper tube in coils as well as hard copper in straight lengths. And yes, the hard copper would be hard to bend: I never tried that. But the soft copper did bend somewhat easily, just using my hands.

I do not know about any plumbing codes or de-rating, but I have seen soft (as well as hard) copper tube/pipe used in standard home plumbing. Just two examples of this are the tubes used to connect faucets under a sink and copper tube used to bring water to a refrigerator with an ice maker. Both of these are small diameter and are probably no longer used due to the cost of copper and availability of plastic lines, but both were used in the past. And the soft copper probably had fewer problems with leaks and out-and-out bursting than some of the plastics that replaced them.

And yes, I am talking about in the US.

And thanks Tom S and plunger for the back up.

Nope, Paul. Standard rigid copper tube (in the US, at least) is NOT soft. It is not easy to bend like that. In fact, if you silver braze a joint instead of soft-solder, you have to de-rate the pressure limit of the tube by a huge amount due to annealing the copper.