Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1912 . The Question Box Subscribers are Urged to Send Questionsto be Answered, or to Comment on Let-ters Published. Descriptions of JobsDone or Shop Kinks are Also Invited. MAKING THE VENT PIPEWATER TIGHT. Editor Plumber and Steamfitter.—Iwish youd show in a drawing how theymake a tight job where a vent pipe,more particularly an increasor, goesthrough the roof. I will consider it ao-reat favor. H. M. S. Agreeably to our correspondents re-quest, we have had a drawing pre-pared showing what he requires. Theshield is of copper into which is caulk
Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1912 . The Question Box Subscribers are Urged to Send Questionsto be Answered, or to Comment on Let-ters Published. Descriptions of JobsDone or Shop Kinks are Also Invited. MAKING THE VENT PIPEWATER TIGHT. Editor Plumber and Steamfitter.—Iwish youd show in a drawing how theymake a tight job where a vent pipe,more particularly an increasor, goesthrough the roof. I will consider it ao-reat favor. H. M. S. Agreeably to our correspondents re-quest, we have had a drawing pre-pared showing what he requires. Theshield is of copper into which is caulk-ed oakum and a pouring of lead is then LEAD. Figure 1. made. The arrangement should, how-ever, be worked up under the shinglesand fastened to place before thecaulking of the lead and oakum takesplace, and into the top of the increasoryou should place a screen of some kindif the stack is very apt to be troubledwith leaves or sparrows which some-times give trouble. The screen can beremoved in the winter time.— CLAMPS FOR HOLDING STACK. Editor Plumber and Steamfitter:—Wehad to run in a stack and had no sup-ports handy so blocked the stack. Nowsome iron supports must be used asthey are specified in the contract. Can you show some that could be easilymade at home1? Hasty. We show some in Figure 2 that canbe quite easily made in most any
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