Sprinkler Tee fitting stripped

[Daniel Prince]

My brother just discovered that one of the Tee fittings on our lawn
sprinkler system is stripped. He says that the new nipple screws in
part way and then just stops. The Tee has glue connections on two
sides with a threaded female fitting on the top where a nipple for a
sprinkler head screws in.

The Tee is about nine inches deep. On one side there is another PVC
pipe less than half an inch away. On the other side, the sidewalk
is about four inches away.

Is there an easy way to repair this Tee without digging up and
replacing the Tee fitting? Replacing the Tee would be difficult
because of the pipe on one side and the sidewalk on the other.

Thank you in advance for all replies.

 

[Mike Easter]

My brother just discovered that one of the Tee fittings on our lawn
sprinkler system is stripped. He says that the new nipple screws in
part way and then just stops. The Tee has glue connections on two
sides with a threaded female fitting on the top where a nipple for a
sprinkler head screws in.

The Tee is about nine inches deep. On one side there is another PVC
pipe less than half an inch away. On the other side, the sidewalk
is about four inches away.

Is there an easy way to repair this Tee without digging up and
replacing the Tee fitting? Replacing the Tee would be difficult
because of the pipe on one side and the sidewalk on the other.

Thank you in advance for all replies.

I recently had to replace the PVC fitting similarly 'underground' and I
didn't want to do a lot of digging.

The situation wasn't as tight or demanding as you are describing, but I
dug a fairly narrow hole to expose the pipe and its fitting. I used a
flexible cable type cutter to cut the pipe, but the old fitting for the
riser was only an L, so that made its replacement easier than your T
situation.

The most common way those threaded risers break off is either down close
to or inside the threads, which can leave a piece of threaded pipe riser
inside.

If the cause of the problem is just that there is a piece of threaded
PVC down inside, there is a tool that you can use to unscrew it. You
need an accurate diagnosis of whether you are dealing with stripped
threads or a piece of pipe down in there. If it is just a piece of
pipe, the tool will unscrew it magically.

 

[VanguardLH]

My brother just discovered that one of the Tee fittings on our lawn
sprinkler system is stripped. He says that the new nipple screws in
part way and then just stops. The Tee has glue connections on two
sides with a threaded female fitting on the top where a nipple for a
sprinkler head screws in.

The Tee is about nine inches deep. On one side there is another PVC
pipe less than half an inch away. On the other side, the sidewalk
is about four inches away.

Is there an easy way to repair this Tee without digging up and
replacing the Tee fitting? Replacing the Tee would be difficult
because of the pipe on one side and the sidewalk on the other.

Thank you in advance for all replies.

Oh, the lawn sprinkler system hooks into the water cooling system in
your computer to make your post on-topic to this newsgroup?

 

[Daniel Prince]

Oh, the lawn sprinkler system hooks into the water cooling system in
your computer to make your post on-topic to this newsgroup?

I thought I was putting the message in alt.home.repair. I have the
neurological illness Myalgic Encephalomyelitis which causes me to
make stupid mistakes when I am tired. I was tired when I wrote the
message.

 

[Mike Easter]

I have the
neurological illness Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

CFS is no less controversial (or problematic) no matter what you name
it.

 

[Daniel Prince]

CFS is no less controversial (or problematic) no matter what you name
it.

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is the original name of the illness. It
has a good definition. In 1969 it was recognized by the World
Health Organization as a neurological illness.

In 1984 and 1985 there was an outbreak of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
in the Lake Tahoe area. In 1987 the CDC sent two inexperienced
epidemiologists to the area to investigate. They spent about two
hours looking at charts. They said they needed to have lunch. They
left and never came back.

In 1988 the CDC pretended that the Lake Tahoe outbreak was a new
illness. They named it CFS over the objections of ALL of the
doctors on the committee who had ever examined a patient with
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. They did this to make it easier for
public and private health and disability insurers to deny claims.

Since 1988 the CDC has changed the definition of "CFS" several
times. Each time they made the definition more vague so that it
will include more people who do not have Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
and who actually have a mental illness instead.

 

[Mike Easter]

"Mike Easter"

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is the original name of the illness.

Yabbut, since there's no muscle or central nervous system pathological
changes, it isn't (actually, really, properly) an encephalomyelelitis.

"Researchers have questioned the accuracy of the term "myalgic
encephalomyelitis" as there is "no recognized pathology in muscles and
in the central nervous system."

"encephalomyelitis refers to a distinct neuropathological process which
is not found"

It is important that an important disease or condition have defining
diagnostic criteria -- a definition, if you will, for case studies and
everything else.

It seems to me that the 1994 CDC Fukuda definition^1 which is based on
having enough symptoms is going to have to do, since the clinical
findings are so sparse and inconsistent.

^1 http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/121/12/953 The Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome: A Comprehensive Approach to Its Definition and Study -
Annals of Internal Medicine Dec '94 - Fukuda et al.


I think that the term myalgic encephalomyelitis is misleading and
inaccurate and implies something which is not true. Of the many things
that are a problem about a condition, it doesn't need more and more and
more controversies which tend to detract from the real issues. It
doesn't need phony considerations -- it needs genuine considerations;
and it doesn't need a phony name either.

 

[david]

I thought I was putting the message in alt.home.repair. I have the
neurological illness Myalgic Encephalomyelitis which causes me to make
stupid mistakes when I am tired. I was tired when I wrote the message.

OK, so you're tired. Now you know you're posting in the wrong group.
STOP IT ALREADY. No one gives a shit about your sprinkers or your
alleged illness.

 

[Daniel Prince]

I think that the term myalgic encephalomyelitis is misleading and
inaccurate and implies something which is not true. Of the many things
that are a problem about a condition, it doesn't need more and more and
more controversies which tend to detract from the real issues. It
doesn't need phony considerations -- it needs genuine considerations;
and it doesn't need a phony name either.

Why do you think the World Health Organization made the error of
accepting the name myalgic encephalomyelitis?

What evidence would you need to convince you that the name myalgic
encephalomyelitis is correct?

Are all other illnesses correctly named?

 

[Mike Easter]

"Mike Easter"

Why do you think the World Health Organization made the error of
accepting the name myalgic encephalomyelitis?

I'll look into that 'why' -- 'why are they out of line with other
important agencies on this issue' (or do they just dodge the issue?)

I believe that the WHO's ICD International Classification of Diseases
classifies BME as G93.3 and postviral in this manner...

Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99)
G93 Other disorders of brain
G93.3 Postviral fatigue syndrome
Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis

.... which is wrong on 2 counts as pertains to CFS

(and/but) The ICD also has another F48.0 classification for...

Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F99)
Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders (F40-F48)
F48 Other neurotic disorders
F48.0 Neurasthenia
<snip long discussion> Fatigue syndrome

Naturally one doesn't have any problem at all searching the WHO pages
for the terms CFS and/or chronic fatigue syndrome which gets some 38
pages of hits, approximately 10 entries per hit. Clearly the website
recognizes the CFS term, in spades.

What evidence would you need to convince you that the name myalgic
encephalomyelitis is correct?

Are all other illnesses correctly named?

Of course not. But not many have had as much attention toward resolving
the numerous controveries over diagnosis, name, and clinical picture.