Random (but interesting) plumbing component
Added 2024-06-06 23:39:23 +0000 UTCI like to throw a random plumbing device into the mix from time to time, and this is the Sioux Chief - American made water hammer arrestor.
Not quite what I was expecting inside.
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This is the first time I've seen a video where you dissect a random device and I already knew exactly what was going to be in it! I have almost identical water hammer arresters on my washing machine, made by the same company. They have a finite lifespan (I think mine lasted about 3 years) so when I replaced them I took apart one of the old ones. These things really do work well. I used to have an awful THUMP that you could hear throughout the house when the washer's solenoid valves closed and these completely eliminated it. You know it's time to replace them when you start to hear the thump coming back.
Circuitmike
2024-06-12 18:25:36 +0000 UTCI think the T-with-a-capped-bit-of-vertical-pipe may have gone out of fashion here (Canada) because the air actually ends up doing the opposite - i.e. the trapped air dissolves into the water, lowering the pressure and drawing water up into the dead-end pipe over time. In a previous house we had to regularly drain the pipes to one bathroom to replenish the air in one of these; it would develop water-hammer effect over the course of a month or two. The piston with double seals and grease here would prevent air crossing the boundary.
Charles
2024-06-09 22:29:30 +0000 UTC
