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oily taste in galvanized pipe. How to best remove it? David Jensen 07-26-2005
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Posted by David Jensen on July 26, 2005, 4:07 pm


I put a drinking fountain on the end of a 4' prethreaded galvanized pipe
from Home Depot. I used the galvanized so that it would stand up on its own
in the yard. The 4' galvanized pipe is fed with PVC. The water from the
drinking fountain head continues to taste oily even though I've flushed it
with several minutes of water. I'm pretty sure that the oily taste is from
oil in the pipe when I bought it at HD. I think it gets the oil in in from
cutting the threads in on each end of the pipe.

What should I do to remove the oily taste from the pipe? It seems like
disassembling it and putting some kind of bottle brush and soap would be
quite an effort. There must be better way. How would a plumber do it?

Thanks.


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David Jensen
Change the xx in my email address to MJ for my real email address. Thanks.




Posted by ~^Johnny^~ on July 26, 2005, 10:42 am


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On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:07:47 GMT, "David Jensen"

>What should I do to remove the oily taste from the pipe?


It'll go away in a few months. ;->



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Posted by Duane Bozarth on July 26, 2005, 11:09 am


David Jensen wrote:
....
> ...How would a plumber do it?

Woulda' done it <first>, if at all. Let it run, it'll eventually go
away as there's no practical way once it's installed. I suppose you
could take the faucet/fixture off the top and use a stiff rod w/ some
scrubbing arrangement, but I'd not bother...


Posted by on July 26, 2005, 12:41 pm


On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:07:47 GMT, "David Jensen"

>I put a drinking fountain on the end of a 4' prethreaded galvanized pipe
>from Home Depot. I used the galvanized so that it would stand up on its own
>in the yard. The 4' galvanized pipe is fed with PVC. The water from the
>drinking fountain head continues to taste oily even though I've flushed it
>with several minutes of water. I'm pretty sure that the oily taste is from
>oil in the pipe when I bought it at HD. I think it gets the oil in in from
>cutting the threads in on each end of the pipe.
>
>What should I do to remove the oily taste from the pipe? It seems like
>disassembling it and putting some kind of bottle brush and soap would be
>quite an effort. There must be better way. How would a plumber do it?
>
>Thanks.

A few minutes of flushing is not going to do anything. Flush it for a
full day or more. And rather than waste the water, rig a hose onto
it, and water the lawn. Galvanized pipe has been used for many years,
and they always used cutting oil. Flush Flush Flush.....

You remind me of my neighbor who put a downpayment on a property that
had been vacant for nearly 20 years, thus the drilled well had not
been used in 20 years. This guy said he would complete the purchase
of this property if the well water was safe. He ran the well pump for
5 to 10 minutes, took a water sample to be tested. The test came back
saying the water was bad. He almost declined the purchase because of
it. He called a plumber to discuss the cost of drilling a new well,
which he was going to use to negotiate the price of the property. The
plumber told him to run the water for 3 days straight. Suddenly the
water was safe....... DUH !!!



Posted by Sacramento Dave on July 26, 2005, 5:17 pm



> I put a drinking fountain on the end of a 4' prethreaded galvanized pipe
> from Home Depot. I used the galvanized so that it would stand up on its
own
> in the yard. The 4' galvanized pipe is fed with PVC. The water from the
> drinking fountain head continues to taste oily even though I've flushed it
> with several minutes of water. I'm pretty sure that the oily taste is
from
> oil in the pipe when I bought it at HD. I think it gets the oil in in
from
> cutting the threads in on each end of the pipe.
>
> What should I do to remove the oily taste from the pipe? It seems like
> disassembling it and putting some kind of bottle brush and soap would be
> quite an effort. There must be better way. How would a plumber do it?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> David Jensen
> Change the xx in my email address to MJ for my real email address.
Thanks.
>
> let the water run . Like mentioned take it apart and clean it. If you go
that far order a piece of stainless steel pipe or Type K cooper.




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