Regular readers may recall that I had water on my basement floor last month. And despite the necessary washing machine maintenance, the water leak culprit turned out to be this plastic drain pipe behind the furnace. It had been unknowingly cracked by overzealous storage of luggage, also behind the furnace. If you can safely merge in traffic then you are capable of undertaking this repair.
Yes, we’re going to talk about this specific situation, but if we dial down our functional fixation for a moment, we’ll see that once we can solvent-weld inexpensive plastic pipe together, we can apply these skills to build all sorts of things with this great medium akin to adult Tinkertoys. So in typical makebright fashion, we’ll weave in the meta discussion throughout.
Want to make a puppet stage? A custom kids’ fort? A drying rack for your darkroom? I once made an oversized classic physics experiment installation. On a train. Out of plastic pipe.
