About a month ago, I mentioned something about using my crack Mr. Fixit skills to repair a puncture in our pool piping. I will not repeat exactly HOW the puncture occurred. However, every guy looks forward to the moment when they have to race to the hardware store to get critical items in an emergency, and this one was no different.
I got a couple clamps, and totally confused - and inexplicitly amused - the young clerk by asking for "wadding." With the delight every hardware shopper knows, he found me some miracle product that would be perfect for the wadding bit. This miracle product - as seen on TV, no less - was that clay like stuff you mold with your fingers that then turns into hard-as-rock epoxy. Now THAT'S wadding.
So fix the hole I did. What I missed was that the puncture turned put to be what we in the pipe puncture trade call a "through and through." I sort of missed the bottom hole bit. My fix really looked good from the top, though.
I recently mentioned the pool guys were still chuckling when they got here. They were chuckling all the way back as well.
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