I have extremely hard water, and my water softener has been broken for a few years. There's been quite a decrease in water pressure. I'm assuming this is from hard water deposits in the pipes.Is there anything that can be done about it? Can they be flushed out?If so, do you have any idea of what the cost might be? I'm sure it wouldn't be cheap.
Sweating (soldering) pipe is tricky even at the best of times and even when done by an expert. a) Solder can go bad - but it is obviously so, crumbly and so forth. If he was using shiny plumber's solder that came off the spool normally, it was fine. b) Proper fluxing an cleanliness is the key to good solder joints. If the pipe was not cleaned properly, or if he did not use the correct flux, the process will be an exercise in frustration. My guess is that he may have been using either lead-free solder with old flux, or old lead-based solder with in incompatible flux, or no flux at all. He may also have been using a torch that was burning improperly letting carbon build up on the areas to be soldered, or an old tank of propane that was not allowing the torch to heat properly. 1. Clean the pipes and fittings either with a fitting cleaner, sand-paper, medium steel wool or other method that leaves a bright, shiny contact-surface. 2. Obtain the correct flux and use it liberally on the fitting and the pipe end. 3. Use a good torch with fresh propane - or a Presto-Lite and acetylene - but one that gives a clear, blue flame when in use. 4. Heat the fitting and pipe, not the solder. Work from the fitting to the pipe as you want to draw the solder into the fitting. Move the torch around the fitting occasionally running onto the pipe a bit. 5. Touch the solder to the fitting on the other side from the flame. When you observe the bead form on the fitting all around - STOP THERE. 6. Wipe the completed joint with a cold, wet rag saturated with clean water. This removes the excess flux and sets the fitting. Good luck with it.
NO, solder cannot go bad. 1) are the pipes copper ? if not, thats your reason. 2) did he scrub the oxidation off the pipes/fittings ? 3) Did he apply flux to the pipe before attempting to solder?
If you are locked out and the keys are inside house and if you have a regular deadbolt lock, then it can only be locked from outside with the key, which makes me think the door is locked with the door knob lock which was pushed to lock by inside button or turner on knob. In that case you can use a credit card to get in by pushing card where bolt is at knob between door and jamb while shaking door a little back and forth.
Is this something you notice only with Word, or do more graphically intense applications suffer the same problem? For example, does the thin client have Adobe Acrobat Viewer, and can you look at a graphics-heavy PDF or any considerable size? If this bogs it down as well, and you're just over a normal LAN network (i.e. both upload and download speeds at least 10 Mb/s), then it sounds like some manifestation of network load is slowing it down. If you can do more processor/graphics-intensive stuff fine, but Word is what's slow, then it may mean the Application Server (I'm assuming there's an application server in play, if you're using a thin client) is running the application slowly for everyone, or at least more people than yourself (a possibility if there's more than one application server hosting Word), or possibly a problem with the thin client itself. Could possibly have to do with how Word auto-saves stuff? I dunno, that's just a guess. You might want to see if there are other people near you who also use word on a thin client experiencing the same problem. If they are, it might mean the application server is to blame; if no one else is, it might be your thin client. This is just my guess without any knowledge of the network infrastructure you're working with Hope it helps!
