The best-read, most highly acclaimed series in the 47-year history of Supply House Times has been updated and made available to fill the gaping hole in the plumbing industry's product knowledge training.
When the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque, N.M., learned that a three-year-old hippo was available from another zoo, they jumped at the opportunity to give her a home.
Here's a Tool Tip I use on 1 1/2-inch galvanized nipples. I mainly use this to clean the threads when replacing the waste and overflow on a tub because of the tight confines usually associated with slab tubs.
I have a suggestion for removing those old, rusty, crusty, galvanized water heater nipples. Way too often a plumber may collapse, “egg-shape” or sometimes even break those old galvanized nipples at a water heater during repairs.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, thousands of schools will need to be built over the next 10 years, and even more will need to be renovated, in order to respond to rising enrollments and to repair aging schools.
In the final part of this series on recruiting future workers for the construction trades, we focus on how to attract young people and students into the industry.