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Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« on: May 09, 2010, 01:10:51 PM »
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I cut a live cold water pipe once by mistake...
   
Edited on Sat May-08-10 10:00 PM by LeftyFingerPop
due to the fact that my local water company did not shut off an old supply from the street.

I cut it with a reciprocating saw, and there was no shut-off valve.

Cold water with amazing pressure shot out of the pipe and began to flood my basement. I tried to hold the water off with my thumb, but the pressure was so great, that it misdirected the gusher.

I then grabbed a brick of duct seal (which is like clay),and molded it around the leak. This worked only a little better than my thumb.

Then I finally remembered something about a hose that I had heard.

I cut a 4 inch piece of rubber garden hose. I slit it lengthwise. I placed it slit-side down over the leak in the horizontal pipe. I placed two radiator hose clamps over each end of the hose and tightened until the spray stopped completely.

In regard to the oil spill...see what I'm sayin'?

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1. Not really... nt

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4. Ok scale it up 1000X and do it a mile under water by robot.

What a party pooper. I bet he questioned concrete and chicken wire.

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9. I don't think the oil leak is a broken pipe.
   
It is a well, a hole going more or less straight down. The problem is capping a failed wellhead, not repairing a broken pipe.

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LeftyFingerPop  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat May-08-10 10:21 PM
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13. dig down 20 feet around the entire "hole" perimeter...
   
thus exposing sunk pipe?

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15. 20 feet? I don't think you quite understand the dimensions.
   
Here is a blow out preventor - the wellhead cap that failed.

That is a one story 'cap' on top of the well head. You can't 'dig 20 feet around' the well, it is seabed floor, likely sand, and any digging you do will simply collapse around you as you dig. And of course this is all one mile down under extreme pressure.

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17. OK....100 feet...
   
And I believe there must be a way to dig or even drill around that pipe. After all, they did manage to sink it into the sea floor.

is stupidity is showing with every post.

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10. Good solution for saving your baement fromfurther flooding.   Updated at 3:46 PM
   
However, I don't think it would work for BP - there is just too much pressure on the leaks resulting from that ruptured oil rigging.

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12. Probably greater PSI measured relative pressure on my pipe than the oil pipe.

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11. What would they splice to?
   
The rig and all pipe is gone.How do you make a splice with nothing to work with?

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14. I'm thinking that the hole is actually just pipe cut off at ground level.
   
Dig around the hole to expose the pipe.

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19. You should send this idea to BP. I bet they haven't even thought of it.

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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2010, 01:18:43 PM »
What a frickin moron, and he is so sure he is right too. These are the kinds of minds that bring us chicken wire and kerosene proof.
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2010, 01:21:42 PM »
Simple: Just fill in those well holes with tampons and Depends! They will expand and block it.

That'll stop the leak.

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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2010, 01:22:41 PM »
Quote from: crockspot on May 09, 2010, 01:18:43 PM
What a frickin moron, and he is so sure he is right too. These are the kinds of minds that bring us chicken wire and kerosene proof.

I just looked that up the other day!   :-)
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2010, 01:28:32 PM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on May 09, 2010, 01:22:41 PM
I just looked that up the other day!   :-)

It should be a sticky.
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2010, 01:37:08 PM »
Quote from: Tucker on May 09, 2010, 01:28:32 PM
It should be a sticky.

Done.....

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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2010, 01:49:30 PM »
Quote from: TVDOC on May 09, 2010, 01:37:08 PM
Done.....

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I was talking about the twin tower experiement with the chicken wire. Sorry.
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2010, 01:50:31 PM »
Speechless.
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2010, 01:53:09 PM »
Quote from: Tucker on May 09, 2010, 01:49:30 PM
I was talking about the twin tower experiement with the chicken wire. Sorry.

OK....but ya gotta admit, this is close..........

I'll leave it up for a while.

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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2010, 02:55:21 PM »
I gotta ask. What kind of DUmmy cuts a water pipe without first checking to see if the water is off?
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2010, 03:00:29 PM »
Quote from: Carl on May 09, 2010, 01:50:31 PM
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2010, 03:25:19 PM »
Quote from: Tucker on May 09, 2010, 02:55:21 PM
I gotta ask. What kind of DUmmy cuts a water pipe without first checking to see if the water is off?

Obviously, the garden-variety kind.
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #12 on: May 09, 2010, 07:58:33 PM »
I have to admit, I truly stand in awe of the thought processes required to come to that solution.
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2010, 04:25:08 AM »
Quote from: dandi on May 09, 2010, 07:58:33 PM
I have to admit, I truly stand in awe of the thought processes required to come to that solution.

Sometimes, the stupid is unbelievably jaw-dropping.  One's jaw would drop in zero gravity.
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #14 on: May 10, 2010, 04:47:05 AM »
I don't believe the DUmmie ever patched a leak in this manner. We all know he would have went to the DUmp and asked for suggestions on how to stop the leak, even as his basement was being flooded.
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2010, 04:58:33 AM »
A news article I saw earlier had people calling BP and suggesting fixes, such as sticking a big cork in the pipe. Dummies are everywhere.  :thatsright:

On further thought, it's a shame that it wasn't a gas line the dummy cut.
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2010, 06:53:59 AM »
Quote from: FGL on May 09, 2010, 03:00:29 PM
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #17 on: May 10, 2010, 06:55:00 AM »
Quote from: kenth on May 10, 2010, 04:58:33 AM
A news article I saw earlier had people calling BP and suggesting fixes, such as sticking a big cork in the pipe. Dummies are everywhere.  :thatsright:

On further thought, it's a shame that it wasn't a gas line the dummy cut.

Hold a match to it to see if anything is leaking out.
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #18 on: May 10, 2010, 07:24:46 AM »
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such as sticking a big cork in the pipe.
  :lmao: :rotf:

Another engineering solution from the world-famous DUmp.  What gets me is that FlingingPoop won't let the idea go.  If it gets shot down, he just keeps comin'.  

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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #19 on: May 10, 2010, 07:31:54 AM »
Ah hell...just let Bonnie Fwank suck it dry.
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #20 on: May 10, 2010, 11:15:39 AM »
Quote from: TVDOC on May 09, 2010, 01:53:09 PM
OK....but ya gotta admit, this is close..........

I'll leave it up for a while.

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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #21 on: May 10, 2010, 12:22:43 PM »
Quote from: Tucker on May 09, 2010, 02:55:21 PM
I gotta ask. What kind of DUmmy cuts a water pipe without first checking to see if the water is off?

The same ones who would stick their finger into a live electrical socket.
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« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2010, 12:27:58 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on May 10, 2010, 12:22:43 PM
The same ones who would stick their finger into a live electrical socket.

Or, who goes looking for a gas leak with his Zippo. :fuelfire: Found it!
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #23 on: May 10, 2010, 12:48:00 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on May 10, 2010, 12:22:43 PM
The same ones who would stick their finger into a live electrical socket.

I've been waiting for a opportunity to use this.
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Re: Fixing the oil leak with a garden hose. Same way when I cut my water pipe.
« Reply #24 on: May 10, 2010, 05:59:34 PM »
Damn.  An instant DUmp classic!!

The DUmp is showing just how important it really is, a service to humanity! 

YOU ENGINEERS ASSIGNED TO FIX THIS JUST SITTING AROUND WITH YOUR THUMB UP YOUR ASS SHOULD GET OVER TO THE DUMP IMMEDIATELY!!!! 

LeftyFingerPop has this figured out!!! <insert stupid sarcasm tag here>
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