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WB
We used to maintain (on rare occasion) sewer pipe
Friday, November 06, 2020, 15:48

That was connected with soft lead joints! Soil pipe they called it. It was cast iron and about everyone’s sewer pipes under their house utilized it. You’d fit a joint, fill it with the brown fuzzy stuff (we called it wool). You pour some melted lead around it and these special punches were used to hammer the lead into the joint sealing it . Actually it basically unified the two pipes as one solid piece, it was good stuff! I drug some from under my old house from the 40’s in the 1990’s! It was heavy dragging it on all fours. I now have pvc.

I finished melting the pure lead and casting ingots ... - Jim Taylor, 2020-11-06, 14:02
- I was working in the rafters of the utility’s - WB, 2020-11-06, 15:15
  - Years ago I worked at a State Park... - John Ammeter, 2020-11-06, 19:10
  - Scotty that’s the lead I got from a friend - MTM, 2020-11-06, 15:30
    - We used to maintain (on rare occasion) sewer pipe - WB, 2020-11-06, 15:48
- Very nice Jim. It’s rewarding to - MTM, 2020-11-06, 14:06
  - A family member gave me this old drain pan .. - Jim Taylor, 2020-11-06, 14:13