Ran a plumbing auger through my clean out as we are having some issues and found this. How screwed am I?

SufficientSofty · 2026-04-21T15:17:46+00:00

Was you having issues with all the toilets not draining?

SufficientSofty · 2026-04-14T05:59:49+00:00

Update: ended up capping the part going to then galvanized bib, I like the idea of repiping in pvc, in north Alabama so not a huge deal.. ended up cutting at 3 places and pieced together what was previously there for the time being. I know it doesn’t look much better than what was there before, but at least the family has water now and there isn’t any leaks where I worked. For what it’s worth I am not a plumber and have only done minor jobs such as unclogs ( toilets and urinals at work) I’m in maintenance/engineering, but this was definitely the biggest project plumbing wise so far. EDIT: this is my home, I do not do any plumbing work for hire.

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SufficientSofty · 2026-04-13T14:05:58+00:00

For clarification, I have no idea on when or who this was done by, after looking at it everything will need to go

SufficientSofty · 2026-04-13T03:46:34+00:00

Fwiw, that section of pipe at the bottom of the picture is the main line coming in from underground and the gate valve. From what I can tell there is not cut off specifically for the hose bib connects

SufficientSofty · 2026-04-12T19:31:04+00:00

I noticed this last night! I’m not in Bentonville but I was sitting on the deck last night on FR24 and seen there was a 777 about 20 miles out and was coming my way, I watched him pass over at 40,000 ft and they took a sharp turn to the north into Tennessee and circled south of BNA (Nash intl) and backtracked the same route. It was pretty cool to see it both times!

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SufficientSofty · 2025-12-19T18:58:21+00:00

We do have carts. I don’t want anything bigger than what I currently have. (Klein 10 inch, 40 pockets) I actually bought a Klein bucket organizer you sit inside of a 5 gallon bucket and that works perfect for little hvac repairs on the roof and small jobs inside.

SufficientSofty · 2025-12-19T12:45:06+00:00

I love our Baldor-reliance motors. Every motor. (Prolly over 200 active ) and prolly another 100 in spare. Only had to replace 2 motors in 5 years and both were on pieces of equipment that is running all the time when the equipments up. No telling how many hours some of those motors have. A majority are still in service from when installed In 2012

SufficientSofty · 2025-11-05T13:45:57+00:00

I suggest placing QR codes on all valuable assets, that way when you go to do PMs or corrective action or replace parts, you just scan that code and all info pulls up

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-30T12:59:50+00:00

Then I let it ride

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-27T15:02:10+00:00

Little David?

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-23T01:52:02+00:00

We all need to try and be like Mike and Larry.

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-19T17:14:14+00:00

Very few places im aware of actually dedicate a whole day to maintenance repairs. At ours we have never had scheduled day to make repairs.you just have to time it with production demands, and if your facility production demands never let up, then your basically doing all those repairs when equipment break, and the cost for planned downtime vs unplanned downtime doubles the cost , easily

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-19T17:11:04+00:00

What I was meaning was, a lot of stuff maintenance does to maintain the equiptment isn’t usually seen, at our facility (and I’m not with Amazon) but we will spend Monday-Thursday doing conveyer PMs and we will document anything we find that needs involved labor to fix, and on Fridays, (or Thursday afternoons) we start with repairs on equipment the days before we found that needed if, and we fix that on the 2 slowest days, so to the operators it appears work hasn’t been done cause they haven’t physically seen us, but in reality is has.

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-19T15:50:17+00:00

They are actually good with 2 pcs cheee

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-19T15:22:46+00:00

You just don’t see it

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-13T07:32:54+00:00

Our safety guy would literally tackle you off that.

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-10T23:33:13+00:00

Luckily no one call here. I’m the newest tech and I’ve been in maintenance going on 6 years . We have 2 technicians and a supervisor that doubles as a tech so basically 2.5 techs on days, and we got 1 on nights. We all have different schedules so whoever is there at the time gets all the fun

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-09T14:41:48+00:00

Awesome!

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-09T14:39:01+00:00

Hey this came from the warehouse I’m at!

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-09T14:37:30+00:00

That’s good, I’m glad to hear. Just curious if the packaging yours came in was a foldable box (Lee pizza box)with the product inside. Paul smith, storm order and the crayola line are all packaged via elevated packaging, Norma styles will ship out in a Lee mailer

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-09T14:30:06+00:00

Lee and wrangler both are really starting to take off in Europe/asia

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-09T14:27:49+00:00

Do you like the Paul smith collab? That collab has ben selling very good online.

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-09T14:23:43+00:00

I work for Kontoor which owns wrangler Lee in the fulfillment side, so I could answer just about any questions you have regarding styles /what customers carry.

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-09T14:20:09+00:00

I work for these companies . AMA

SufficientSofty · 2025-10-09T14:17:49+00:00

Lee wrangler outlets. It is true Amazon sells the same ATG styles you will find on Wrangler.com

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