OT: Lawn sprinklers

5/29/20, 8:43 PM #1

Kneale Brownson
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OT: Lawn sprinklers

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The hole in this sprinkler head lets out a steady stream. Don't know what was in the hole previously or where it went. Anyone know what I can plug it up with?

The tube on the left goes to another sprinkler.

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5/29/20, 10:44 PM #2

Garthinsandiego
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Garthinsandiego

It had a fourth elbow connector. Will have to replace the the whole assembly, unless you have others that you can scavenge parts from.

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5/30/20, 12:46 AM #3

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You can buy a NTP tap then cut new threads, and screw a plug into it.

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5/30/20, 2:12 PM #4

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Sounds like a winner, Keith!!!

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

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5/30/20, 2:46 PM #5

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If the manufacturer's name is on any of the pieces you can track them down and maybe get what you need.

Also, the line probably goes to a section of sprinklers. You probably want to get it reconnected rather then plugging which will cut off water to a section.

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