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How To Install Your Water Heater
Let me guess, you went down stairs to check the laundry or grab a tool and their it was. A huge puddle of water all over your basement floor and it is coming from the bottom of the water heater. This is the obvious and most common sign you need a new water heater installation.
If you have any experience with Do It Yourself projects around the house installing a new water heater should not be a problem for you. Follow along with the steps in this article and you will have your new water heater installed in a couple of hours. Installing a water heater yourself will save you up to 300 or 400 dollars depending on the area you live in. Now if you are not very DIY you can still install your own water tank, however it may take a little longer than a few hours but if you like a challenge and are not afraid doing repairs on your home you will be able to install the heater yourself as well.
Tools And Materials You Will Need:
Water Heater- Install what you are taking out if you have a 40 gallon and want to upgrade to a 50 gallon now is the time to do it. If you do have a 50 gallon I DO NOT recommend switching to anything lower than what you have. ¾ Fittings - You will need 2 ¾ couplings and possibly some elbows. Check what type of pipe you have going to your water heater. This can be copper, CPVC, PEX or galvanized. I recommend getting Shark Bite ¾ fittings because they are very easy to install with PEX, CPVC and copper piping. When you have galvanized pipe you may need to get a conversion fitting and adapt to one of the other pipes for easier installation. Black Pipe Fittings - You may need a few ½ black pipe couplings and elbows to extend or shorten the gas line connecting to the heater. I install the gas line last. This way I will know exactly what I need for gas fittings. 2 - ¾ dielectrics. Always replace the dielectrics when installing a new water heater. Make sure you get the proper dielectrics for the piping material you have in your house. T&P Valve usually comes with the new heaters. Torch, Flux, Solder, sand paper Channel Locks or offset pliers Pipe Wrench Pipe Thread solution or Teflon tape Garden hose.
Now that we have all of our materials let's get started. The first step is to turn off the main water supply to house. Next Turn off the gas vale on the gas line running to the water heater. Now connect the garden hose to the bottom of the water heater and run the hose to nearby floor drain. Turn on the valve (this looks like an outside hose bib) and let the heater start to drain.
At this time go throughout your house and turn on all of the faucets. Make sure you leave the faucets in the on position and you have hot and cold water turned on. This will allow all of the water to drain out of the heater a lot faster.
While the water is draining out of the old heater, Unbox the new water heater. First pipe dope the two shafts coming out the top of the heater. Once they are doped screw on the new dielectrics. Next if your heater came with a T&P valve unbox it and pipe dope those threads. Screw the T&P valve into the side of the heater there will be a hole with threads on it where it goes. You may need to use your pipe wrench to get that last turn on so the valve points down. Now you got the heater prepped and ready to go.
Once the old heater is done draining disconnect the gas pipe at the union fitting. This is the fitting which has a hexagonal middle. Once the union is disconnected disconnect the rest of the pipe ONLY on the heater you are replacing.
Now we will disconnect the water pipes. Use your channel locks to disconnect the dielectric. They will disconnect just like the gas pipe union fittings. Cut off the old dielectrics from the copper or other piping you may have.
Once all of the pipes are disconnected from the water heater and it does not seem like there is any more water in the tank start to remove the old water heater out of the way. Make sure you leave enough room to get the new heater in place. If you have a small area you may have to just remove the old water heater to make room for the new water heater.
Line up the new water heater with the pipes that connected the old heater. If you notice you need change some water piping, leave the pipe with the cold water valve the straight pipe and reconfigure the hot side.
Connect the water piping to new heater using the shark bite fittings or whatever fittings you decided on. You may have to solder the new dielectrics to the water piping if you have copper pipe. When soldering the dielectrics I advise you figure out how much pipe you need from the dielectric to the coupling and cut it to length and solder it on the ground. This will make for an easier solder job. You will also want to take out the washers from the dielectrics so you don't burn them.
Now you have the water pipe all hooked up. Once everything cools. If you had to do any soldering. Replace the washers in the dielectrics and tighten them down. Turn on the main water supply. While the water heater is filling up leave the faucets on so you can bleed all of the air out of the system.
Now you will know what you need for gas pipe. Hook up the gas pipe to the heater. If you are lucky the gas pipe from the old heater will line up with the new heater. If it does not, just reconfigure it as needed. You can buy gas piping in all ranges and sizes.
Once all of the air is bleed from the system turn off the faucets. Now the water heater is filled up you need to light it. Most new heaters have a manual lighting system. This works just like a BBQ grill does. You push in the pilot button and click the clicker and it will light the pilot light. After about 30 seconds turn the heater on to the desired setting and you water tank will begin to heat the water. You should now have hot water in about 30 to 45 minutes depending on the size of the tank.
Abdominal muscles are a small body part and you have no reason to perform as many exercises as you can do in one training session. They can be fully worked with a relatively short intense workout. And as recent studies show, the best workout has to recruit as many muscle fibers as possible.
Here is relatively simple workout routine consisting of three well known exercises. Try it three times a week exactly as explained and your mirror will show you the results.
LYING LEG RAISE
It's an excellent first exercise in your abdominal routine because it helps to define the lower portion of the 6-pack.
Lie on the floor or on a bench and hold onto something stable placed just beyond your head. Hold your legs off the ground slightly bent at your knees. Slowly raise your legs using abs to move up your hips until your legs achieve a vertical position. Then, controlling your hips and holding your abs tight, lower your legs until they are just off the ground. Go into your second rep without allowing the abs to relax or the hips to come back to the ground.
Do as many reps as you can. Rest 10 or 15 seconds before your next set. Continue in this manner to complete exhaustion until you can't do more than one rep. Rest about 2 or 3 minutes to recover your muscles as much as possible and go on to another exercise.
CRUNCHES
This is a great exercise for getting a deep contraction in the center of your abdominals because it really brings out the details in your 6-pack.
While lying on the floor, place your feet against a wall so that your lower legs form about a 90-degree angle with your upper legs, and your upper legs form a 90-degree angle with your torso. Place your hands across your chest or at the side of your head and maintain this position throughout the exercise.
Bring yourself up using the power of your abs. As your upper body begins to rise off the floor, concentrate on the effort in your abdominals rather than on how high up you can go. As you reach your highest point, contract your abs, squeezing them for a full second or two. Continue to hold your abs tight as you begin to lower your body - don't make the mistake of relaxing and allowing gravity and momentum to bring you back to the floor. Between reps, continue to hold your abs tight - don't relax and then re-tense them to start the next rep.
You have to do as many reps as you can. Rest not more than 15 seconds before your next set. Continue in this manner until you can't do more than one rep.
After resting (again for 2 to 3 minutes) go on to the next exercise.
SIT-UPS
This is a good finishing exercise that will help to make a final stroke to your going-to-be washboard abs.
While sitting on the edge of the bench hold onto the bench behind your back. Hold your feet off the ground .Hold your legs with 90-degree bends at your knees. Raise your hips as high as you can while still forcefully contracting your abs for a second or two. Then, controlling your hips and holding your abs tight, lower your hips to the starting position. Go into your second rep without allowing the abs to relax.
Remember, it's very important to do as many reps as you can to recruit as many muscle fibers as possible. Rest about 15 seconds before your next set. Continue until you can't do more than one rep.
That's it. That's your abdominals workout. Surely it's not easy as is written but it works and you have to try it.
Notes:
Rep pace for abs training should be moderate to slow, allowing you to feel
your abs stretching and flexing through the whole range of motion.
Resistance can be added to ab movements by using machines or by placing
weights behind the head during sit-ups and crunches.
During pre-contest preparation you can first do aerobics such as running
or cycling for 15 minutes and after that start your abs program.
After looking at what bat rolling is, and how it is done. We will now take a look at the differences in the equipment being used.
The Design
The clamping method to secure the bat between the rollers has evolved into two basic designs. The very first parallel rolling machine had two rollers, a top and bottom. It also had four points of adjustment to regulate the amount of compression to the bat surface. The newer machines that have copied this design, have a combination of top and bottom rollers, and just a single central point of adjustment. A much more simplistic design, and as they claim, possibly better.
My Choice
I prefer to use the machine with the much more precise, four individual adjusters. One at each corner of a heavy steel plate, to which the large aluminum blocks, that hold the bearings the roller shafts are set into, are fastened. These adjusters are a machine nut, on top of a machine washer, threaded onto a heavy duty 1/2" steel shaft. The machine nuts can be turned at very small increments to give an exact degree of adjustment to the steel plate the rollers are secured to. This in turn adjusts the exact amount of compression to the bat being rolled. And the amount of pressure being applied can be determined by using a very precise inch pound torque wrench. It is like assembling an engine or delicate piece of machinery. All the pieces have to be put together with the exact amount of pressure or the engine will not perform up to its potential. The same thing is true for your bat. Exact pressures and compressions, during the rolling process, will give you the ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE from your composite bat.
Central Adjuster
Is it what they claim it is? I don't think so. The central adjuster is just a single threaded bolt, that is secured to the roller plate, with a bar welded to the end to be used as a turning handle. The person rolling your bat turns this handle by hand, to determine the amount of compression, and the amount of pressure being applied to the bat surface. He determines the amount of pressure by how hard it is to turn the handle and also how hard it is to turn the bat while between the rollers. The amount of compression is determined by the amount of turns to the handle, which really is pretty accurate. If there are 10 threads per inch, it is easy to figure out how many turns you need to get the amount of compression you want. Very simple. I think the manufactures of these machines should supply a socket, adapted to their handle, that can be used in conjunction with a torque wrench. This would a least allow then to determine a more precise amount of pressure being applied to the bat surface. If any of them read this article it won't take them long to catch on, you wait and see.
Roller Length
To me the roller length is one of the lesser important factors in the rolling process. The area to be rolled should be 1 1/2" from the and of the bat, and 1 1/2" from the start of the barrel taper to the handle. The sweet spot. However there is no rule of thumb as to how long this area is. If the rollers are shorter than this area, the bat will have to be repositioned between the rollers, to make sure the entire area is covered. If not you will have an erratic bat. I have seen some of the videos the newer single point adjustment roller manufactures have put out, as well as the people using them. All the videos show the bat being rolled in one area only, near the end. They are not doing a complete roll, because they are missing the area near the taper on the longer barrel bats. The whole barrel is used for hitting, it should be rolled as completely as possible.
My rolling machine has 7 inch rollers. I take my measurements and tape off the whole sweet spot area using blue painters tape. It comes off easy and doesn't pull anything with it. This gives me the exact area I need to roll and protects the bat surface from being scared if the rollers happen to spin while rolling. Now, if my rollers happen to be longer than the sweet spot, I just add some white athletic tape on top of the painters tape, which raises the surface enough so the roller only contact that area. Simple I always roll the complete hitting area no matter how big or small it is. When a bat is rolled properly all aspects of the being rolled must be taken into account. You can not use the same methods on every bat as the new single point machine manufactures would suggest. It takes much more than just the turning of a couple handles to get the ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE out of your bat.
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Are you a log splitter that is in the market for a 3 point hitch wood splitter? Are you trying to save time and your back by letting a machine do the work for you? Maybe you are trying to be safer by retiring that axe or chainsaw. Whatever the reason, choosing a tractor log splitter will increase your safety and productivity.
Whether you cut wood to heat your home or your campsite, you cut wood. And cutting wood takes a considerable amount of time. Using a log splitter can save you a ton of time. What will you do with your extra time? Maybe cut more wood for your neighbors?
If you cut a lot of wood, the 3PT wood splitter is well worth the money. Manually cutting the wood is excruciating and frustrating. There are so many things that can happen when you cutting wood that will drive you angry. And anyone will tell you that cutting wood with a bad attitude is asking for troubles. With the 3 point wood splitter, all you have to load the wood and watch it cut the wood for you.
If you get a splitter, most models are portable. They are typically driven by the engine of the tractor that can pull them, either on a trailer or mounted directly to the tractor. Some trailer mounted models even utilize an individual motor. Overall, portability means you can get the job done anywhere you want to.
The best thing about the tractor wood splitter is that it makes big logs into small logs with minimal effort on your part. Using an axe or a chainsaw is extremely hard on your body and even expert cutters are susceptible to accidents. Don't let yourself become a statistic and get a 3 point wood splitter before you have an accident.
Speaking of safety, aside from doing the work for you, the 3 point hitch wood splitter has a great deal of safety features built into it. Some of the most important safety features is that it cuts the wood away from the operator and ejects the wood into nice piles on the other end, reducing tripping hazards.
When you do decide to buy your log splitter, make sure you do your research. Do not get one that is too powerful or you could be wasting your money and risking your safety. Also, do not get one that is not powerful enough. You will not be able to complete your jobs and may also be jeopardizing your safety.
If you have any questions, you can always find someone that owns one or find a local dealers for assistance. Either one can provide you some much needed insight and answer any questions you may have. Both of them can also give you tips and show you a demonstration.
So, if you want want save time and your back, a 3 point hitch wood splitter is for you. Not only will you feel better not being sore and tired, but you will also know that you are safe. And you will never regret your purchase.
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