On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 03:45:52 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D."
wrote:

On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:29:44 -0700, Oren wrote:

Point was I did not think Danny could pull the "green" portion
out of the insert.

You were totally right; the green thing would not budge.

.....bucket huckleberries

http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13419796.jpg

They should make the garden hose nozzles out of that green stuff!

As I previously stated, I've never seen one of these poly compression
fittings fail in normal use.

On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:53:26 -0700, Oren wrote:

As I previously stated, I've never seen one of these poly compression
fittings fail in normal use.

I have a lot of that poly stuff and none of them are working.

I'm pretty sure they're busted and old, and in some cases the
sprinkler system isn't working.

Personally, I think the stuff is too fragile - but I don't have
any experience other than I do have a garden hose hooked to the
one feeding the Oleanders and the water only goes about 100 feet
or so, because the tubing is so badly cut up.

Anyway, maybe I shouldn't deprecate it so much, but I just think
it's too flimsy for my world. Of course, it would be a LOT more
work for me to bury pvc for a few hundred feet of the Oleanders,
so, I guess I should just hunker down and buy a roll of the
poly stuff and replace all the bad parts.

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:26:21 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D."
wrote:

I guess I should just hunker down and buy a roll of the
poly stuff and replace all the bad parts.

Do not try to patch pieces in. You'd be doing it forever. Wasting
money and time. When it starts getting leaks, in multiple areas, from
cracks and punctures -- replace the run. Save the drip heads and
barbed fittings. They can be used again.

Get a 100' or 500' (?) rolls and replace *long* runs.

Just sayin'

Oren wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:26:21 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D."
wrote:

I guess I should just hunker down and buy a roll of the
poly stuff and replace all the bad parts.

Do not try to patch pieces in. You'd be doing it forever. Wasting
money and time. When it starts getting leaks, in multiple areas, from
cracks and punctures -- replace the run. Save the drip heads and
barbed fittings. They can be used again.

Get a 100' or 500' (?) rolls and replace *long* runs.

Just sayin'

That sounds like a good plan! I'm too lazy when it's hot and will patch
everything unless it just won't work! LOL

--
Natural Girl //(**)\\

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:35:13 -0500, Natural - Smoking Gun - Girl wrote:

Get a 100' or 500' (?) rolls and replace *long* runs.
I'm too lazy when it's hot and will patch
everything unless it just won't work!

I don't like patching mainly because I won't understand how
it's set up.

Of course, I don't like digging up buried lines either ... so
that's why I have this 300' long run that hasn't been fixed yet.

Danny D. wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:35:13 -0500, Natural - Smoking Gun - Girl
wrote:

Get a 100' or 500' (?) rolls and replace *long* runs.
I'm too lazy when it's hot and will patch
everything unless it just won't work!

I don't like patching mainly because I won't understand how
it's set up.

Of course, I don't like digging up buried lines either ... so
that's why I have this 300' long run that hasn't been fixed yet.

If you're starting over, just leave it buried and start it all new from the
source.

--
Natural Girl //(**)\\

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:02:16 -0500, "Natural - Smoking Gun - Girl"
wrote:

Of course, I don't like digging up buried lines either ... so
that's why I have this 300' long run that hasn't been fixed yet.

If you're starting over, just leave it buried and start it all new from the
source.

If the lines are shallow pull the poly up by hand. It will take you
where you need to follow. Provided they are only a few inches deep.

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:02:16 -0500, Natural - Smoking Gun - Girl wrote:

If you're starting over, just leave it buried and start it all
new from the source.

Hi Natural, smoking-gun, girl,

I'm was pretty sure the 3/4" and 1/2" drip tubes along the entire
300 feet or so of oleander bushes used to be tied to the irrigation
system - and I do see a 3/4" hose going into the ground at an
irrigation box:
http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13426649.jpg

To follow through on your suggestion, I took a look by turning the
irrigation valve on, and this started spurting out of the tube end:
http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13426653.jpg

There were only a few leaks, some of which look chewed, others holed:
http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13426658.jpg

But, the drip attachment thing seemed to be working fine nonetheless:
http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13426659.jpg

The problem is this 20 (or so) foot length couldn't possibly feed
the entire length of the oleander bushes:
http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13426660.jpg

So I rooted about and found a 3/4" and a 1/2" broken tube under the
oleander canopy, so I put a garden hose connection onto each of those:
http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13426663.jpg

An audible waterfall-like hiss came out of the larger tubing, so,
I was able to ascertain it was badly mauled only about 15 feet from
where the garden hose fed it:
http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13426667.jpg

But, nothing came out of the smaller hose, that I could find:
http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13426669.jpg

QUESTION:
Do you think animals chewed up these tubes?
(Are they susceptible to animals chewing on them?)
http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13426670.jpg

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:35:13 -0500, "Natural - Smoking Gun - Girl"
wrote:

That sounds like a good plan! I'm too lazy when it's hot and will patch
everything unless it just won't work! LOL


I developed an allergy to work. I break out in hives

Hot with plenty of sunshine for this week's forecast.

Today 108°F
Fr 114°F
Sat 115°F
Sun 117°F
Mon 116°F
Tue 116°F
Wed 109°F

(Mojave Desert)

On 6/26/2013 10:42 PM, Oren wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:26:21 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D."
wrote:

I guess I should just hunker down and buy a roll of the
poly stuff and replace all the bad parts.

Do not try to patch pieces in. You'd be doing it forever. Wasting
money and time. When it starts getting leaks, in multiple areas, from
cracks and punctures -- replace the run. Save the drip heads and
barbed fittings. They can be used again.

Get a 100' or 500' (?) rolls and replace *long* runs.

Just sayin'


and you have to use compression pieces to join the patches, and they're
more expensive than running new line if you have lots of leaks.

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:05:47 -0700, chaniarts wrote:

and you have to use compression pieces to join the patches, and they're
more expensive than running new line if you have lots of leaks.

Interesting.

I have to fix about 300 feet of tubing, one of which is 3/4" and the
other, which seems to be parallel to it, is 1/2" (God knows why).

Given that all the pressure is lost at the first holes, I was thinking
of temporarily taping up the holes, one by one, so that I could get an
assessment as to how many holes there were.

http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/...0/13426714.jpg

Do you think electrical tape will stick long enough to run a test of
the entire line (it might take a couple of days to test the whole line).

NOTE: Substitute "img" where it says "640" for a larger image.

On 6/27/2013 7:47 PM, Danny D. wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:05:47 -0700, chaniarts wrote:

and you have to use compression pieces to join the patches, and they're
more expensive than running new line if you have lots of leaks.

Interesting.

I have to fix about 300 feet of tubing, one of which is 3/4" and the
other, which seems to be parallel to it, is 1/2" (God knows why).

Given that all the pressure is lost at the first holes, I was thinking
of temporarily taping up the holes, one by one, so that I could get an
assessment as to how many holes there were.

http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/...0/13426714.jpg

Do you think electrical tape will stick long enough to run a test of
the entire line (it might take a couple of days to test the whole line).

NOTE: Substitute "img" where it says "640" for a larger image.


funny you should ask that.. I've tried it before .. it didn't really
work very well and it always leaked, so then I had to mess with ripping
off wet tape.. I tried electrical and duct tape. The water pressure is
just too strong, I think.

--
Natural Girl //(**)\\

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:13:23 -0500, Natural - Smoking Gun - Girl wrote:

I had to mess with ripping off wet tape

I'll try it, and report back...