Hot water should be hot!

The hot water heater hasn’t been making hot water all weekend.  A trip to the hardware store for a thermocouple produced an improvement in the symptoms, but still no hot water.  Sigh. 

Since I was going, I took the old brass doorknob and shaft from the inner door of our front cat-lock (I called the vestibule an airlock once in my father’s hearing and he nearly choked) because one knob had come off and the screw vanished.  Certainly I could replace the screw.

In the little box with the screws, this hardware store had doorknob shafts that actually have holes in them!  I was practically dancing with glee.  It’s been years since I found anything but the “modern” kind, where, I’ve been told repeatedly, if you screw in the screw properly, just pushing the screw against the shaft will secure the doorknob. 

Now, I have made jointed teddy bears without a pattern; I can assemble furniture, use hand tools to make a perfectly round hole in a hardwood kitchen floor for the new gas pipe to pass through, solder pipe, and various other handy things, but I cannot get the doorknob to stay on for long unless the screw actually screws into a hole. 

So I was dancing for joy.  Almost literally.  I think I amused the guys behind the counter.

 

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Hot water should be hot!

The hot water heater hasn’t been making hot water all weekend.  A trip to the hardware store for a thermocouple produced an improvement in the symptoms, but still no hot water.  Sigh. 

Since I was going, I took the old brass doorknob and shaft from the inner door of our front cat-lock (I called the vestibule an airlock once in my father’s hearing and he nearly choked) because one knob had come off and the screw vanished.  Certainly I could replace the screw.

In the little box with the screws, this hardware store had doorknob shafts that actually have holes in them!  I was practically dancing with glee.  It’s been years since I found anything but the “modern” kind, where, I’ve been told repeatedly, if you screw in the screw properly, just pushing the screw against the shaft will secure the doorknob. 

Now, I have made jointed teddy bears without a pattern; I can assemble furniture, use hand tools to make a perfectly round hole in a hardwood kitchen floor for the new gas pipe to pass through, solder pipe, and various other handy things, but I cannot get the doorknob to stay on for long unless the screw actually screws into a hole. 

So I was dancing for joy.  Almost literally.  I think I amused the guys behind the counter.

 

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Happiness

Is hot water!  The heater is fixed!

Happiness

Is hot water!  The heater is fixed!