Will the pikeys take a bath? and copper waste Q

[GMM]

Having come to terms with the fact that anything metallic left at the front of the house will disappear, I tend to use this as a service. I took a steel bath out today. What are the chances the pikeys will be interested? (Just wondering whether the enamel coating makes it worthless.) If not, I'll have to get the angle grinder out to get it in the car and take it to the tip.

More technically, the sink and bath I took out were plumbed in copper waste, with an OD of ~30mm for the sink and ~35mm for the bath. Although this will all come out eventually and be replaced with plastic in due course, I'm wondering how to cap it off (just stuffed the ends with cloths for now), to stop anything undesirable entering while I work on other aspects of the room. Although I haven't tried, I'm assuming that none of the regular plastic fittings will work with this. Is there something purpose-made for this situation I should be looking for, or is this a situation for an unsightly (not that it matters) bodge involving some combination of expanding foam, silicone and gaffer tape?

[meow2222]

sturdy carrier bag, tape

NT

[Chris French]

In message , GMM writes

I had a plastic compression fitting (Mcalpine probably as that's what I normally buy) fir onto some copper waste pipe here when I had a tempprary lash up.

I'd squirt some expanding foam in the pipe if handy, or just cover with a plastic bag and gaffer tape (or just gaffer tape, a few strips across the end at different angles will cover it nicely.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Depends where you live. When my brother lived in Hackney, his plumber manhandled a cast iron bath along the landing, down the stairs including one winder, along the hall, and dragged it out onto the pavement. At this point he was fairly knackered, but he went back upstairs, collected up the feet and other bits left behind, and took them down to put outside. The bath had already gone. He left the feet outside for a few days, but they didn't come back to get them - probably not so visible to a drive-by pikey.

I believe plastic pushfit matches the current larger copper tube sizes, but yours are probably imperial. I wouldn't bother buying any fittings anyway - plastic bag and tape or rubber band are good enough to stop smells coming back in temporarily.

[Bill Wright]

In Moscow, not long after Glasnost, some UK workers left a very heavy triple extension ladder standing up at the side of an hotel while they went to the front to get a drum of cable. When they returned, seconds later, the ladder was gone.

On the same job a series of very large wooden crates were dismantled plank by plank and spirited away just as fast as their contents were removed (legitimately).

Bill

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Bill, why is it always you with these 'amazing anecdotes'?

[JimK]

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Shaken not stirred old man.....

Jim K

[Bill Wright]

Because I've lived a long time! The thing about the crates, well my dad made them and maybe because he had an apprenticeship building railway wagons he made the crates mighty strong.

"Who thought, as they watched the wagons roll by, of the men that made them?"

He also used screws rather than nails throughout. The crates were collected by a very large lorry that had a forked lift truck fixed to the back and eventually they arrived in Moscow.

At the time everything was in short supply in Russia. If you needed a bit of cable or a box of clips or just about anything it had to come from Germany or somewhere. Wood was especially prized, so the guys who did the unpacking unscrewed everything carefully and spirited the wood away. I was told by Gleb, my English speaking contact, that it was mostly made into furniture.

Bill

[harryagain]

You'll find the normal plastic compression fittings will fit. No need to remove the copper, make use of it in the new installation..

[JimK]

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That's a shame, has it moved?

Jim K

[DerbyBorn]

"harryagain" wrote in news:makmtp$kma$ [e-mail]:

Bear in mind that anything that the pikeys take away that has no worth (concrete in washing machines, etc) will end up fly tipped.

[Chris French]

In message , JimK writes

Worked fine for me just now.

[JimK]

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Annually At Appleby ?

Jim K

[Andrew Gabriel]

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[Jethro_uk]

Apparently in the 70s, a steam roller went missing when they were building the Hanger Lane system.

Same copper who told me this also told me that in his rookie days, he was on the beat in the East End, and walked past a pub with a Jaguar on bricks outside it. He popped his head in and say "Whoevers doing the repairs on the Jag, get it moved - you can't leave it on bricks on a public road". Guy at the bar *whose pint had just been poured* said "what are you on about ?". They both went outside, and the discs were still warm ...

[GMM]

Well they've provided the service for me today. Just got home and there it is, gone. Bloody good job too as I was wondering how much work it would take to smash it down to chunks that would go into the car.

[newshound]

ROFL. I was doing DIY for one of the kids in Hackney this weekend: made sure I had a guard posted while we were humping toolboxes from car to second floor flat and back!