They can put a man on the moon but they can't design a toilet flapper...

[xray s]

...that doesn't get hung up on the chain.

And they call this the 21st century!

Pppfffftttt!

[nini]

1. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHh

My toilet in my bedroom is CONSTANTLY getting the chain caught.. Makes me nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:-)

[Career Prole]

2. Take the slack out of the chain!

Take back control of your life!

[nini]

4. LOL

I have - it's got a freaking mind of its own :-)

it's ok for a while, then the toilet gremlins go to work and it starts again. weird.

[Career Prole]

8. Only one solution left to you then. You need to...

...summon the Holy Plumber!

[nini]

10. hee hee...

or perhaps one of those holy candles - dual purpose there too!

[Career Prole]

12. Is this overkill?

Don't worry 'bout the old dude...he's quite blind.

Sorry the holy candles took so long...I'm a guy, so I felt compelled to read the entire Flushmaster article and grunt like the Tool-Time guy.:)

[nini]

13. That's an Advent wreath.. way more info that you want to know I'm sure

:-)

for the 4 weeks before Christmas.. You light one of the smaller candles for each week, then the big one when Christmas arrives.

but thanks for looking up a holy candle :-)


I was trying to find one of those ones in a glass container with Our Lady of Guadalupe on the side.. quite popular in the L.A. Hispanic community.

I'll have to check out the flushmaster article .ha

[Career Prole]

14. Oh my gosh! So it is!

My monitor must be out of calibration...it looks like a pink and three blues instead of three purples! I thought the old fella had three boys and a girl or something! :eyes:
Here's the whole team, then...

(gregorian tooltime grunting)
:bounce:
'Night! :hi:

[nini]

15. That's them!

I may go buy one of those candles and start a novena for a November win :-)


'night to ya. :hi:

[CO Liberal]

6. You Have a Toilet in Your Bedroom??

:-)

[nini]

7. yes, it's right next to the bed. I can slide on top of it and go

:evilgrin:


well, it's the bathroom in the master bedroom... guess that did a bit strange to say it was in the bedroom :-)

[Kurt Remarque]

3. zero/limited gravity toileting is not without problems

[LincolnMcGrath]

5. Any union plumber could fix that straight away!

[Beaker]

9. bag that flapper!

with a Flush-mate equipped toilet...I've got one, and it kicks the shit(pun intended) out of other toilets...



http://masterhandyman.com/columndetails.cfm?pubdate=19970719

On the job: Michigan toilet firm is flush with success of its system

by America’s Master Handyman, Glenn Haege

We’re all proud that when people think of Michigan, they think of the Motor City and cars. But Michigan’s reputation may be going down the toilet, and from the perspective of the folks at Sloan Flushmate in Wixom, that’s a pretty good thing.

Many of you have heard me rant about the double flush and plunging problems with the new 1.6-gravity fed toilets foisted upon us by Congress. They save water, but about 40 percent of the time, they do not do the job until you flush two or more times. Sometimes you even need a plunger.

You may also recall that I recently played Sancho Panza to Joe Knollenberg’s Don Quixotelike efforts to reverse the legislation. We were able to paper Washington with a blizzard of toilet tissues proclaiming, "Get the government out of my toilet, vote for HR 859," but have not yet gotten the necessary movement out of Congress to pass the roll-back legislation.

Luckily, Flushmate, is manufacturing a unit that solves the problem and may make Michigan the seat of power for pressure-assisted toilets. Sloan Flushmate, a division of the Sloan Valve Company, makes football-sized tanks that fit inside a toilet’s water closet. When flushed, each tank expels 1.5 gallons of water through the toilet system at a speed of 70 gallons per minute. According to Joseph Bosman, Flushmates chief operating officer, that is almost three times the power of a normal, gravity-fed toilet and is sufficient to clear the toilet and the waste vent line with less water than required by law. There are no left-overs.

I went to the factory to see the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) flushometer tests that compared a Flushmate-powered toilet to a standard 1.6 toilet. The tests flush 100 specially made, marble shaped balls, out the toilet and down a 100-foot clear plastic waste vent line.

The tests were very eye-opening, because they showed that even when it looked like all the balls had been flushed out of a 1.6 gallon gravity-fed toilet, up to half of the balls remained in the toilet system. In your home, that would be waste material, lying hidden inside your toilet — not a very antiseptic situation.

The Flushmate-equipped toilet flushed all the balls out of the toilet and completely through the 100 feet of pipe.

Industry leaders have tried to persuade me that 1.6 gallon toilets are fine. They tell me that the first 1.6 gallon toilets had problems because they were rushed into production, and improperly designed and glazed. I believe that many of the newer gravity-fed designs, created in conformance with more difficult specifications, are better. But I keep remembering those ANSI test balls that stayed in the toilet system even after it looked like the toilet had been evacuated...

[xray s]

11. Hey, I don't know about you, but my poop isn't the size of marbles!

which casts dispersions upon this scientific test!

"I went to the factory to see the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) flushometer tests that compared a Flushmate-powered toilet to a standard 1.6 toilet. The tests flush 100 specially made, marble shaped balls, out the toilet and down a 100-foot clear plastic waste vent line."

[Beaker]

16. it says marble SHAPED balls...

not marble-sized...

and trust me- these toilets RULE!
no matter how big the..."evacuation", there's NEVER a need for a second flush...way cool.