Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1912 . entire job, or did not dare risk it; foryou can see, quite plainly that he did notdo it; but you can find many a hotwater fitter who can lay out that jobwith only one main and no special re-turn at all and have it work all to themustard. Do it and with less pipe thanis shown in Figure 2. You can studythis out for yourself. Draw some blankplans and lay out a few jobs in differ-ent ways for yourself. You may not bean artist, but you sure could not do a Fig. 1. Porch. work not to do. It is a sample of thework suggested by some of the mailo
Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1912 . entire job, or did not dare risk it; foryou can see, quite plainly that he did notdo it; but you can find many a hotwater fitter who can lay out that jobwith only one main and no special re-turn at all and have it work all to themustard. Do it and with less pipe thanis shown in Figure 2. You can studythis out for yourself. Draw some blankplans and lay out a few jobs in differ-ent ways for yourself. You may not bean artist, but you sure could not do a Fig. 1. Porch. work not to do. It is a sample of thework suggested by some of the mailorder catalogue propositions—work thatis claimed anybody can do and Imust confess that it looks the part, forsurely no steamfitter would be guilty ofanything similar, and you, my boy, areputting in four years hard work en-deavoring to learn how to do the workright. So start right here and-begin bylearning some of the things to run two pipes to do a certainamount of work when one pipe slightlylarger and run in a slightly different dir-ection or manner will do the work easierand with less pipe. Be practical andscientific enough to know how to putsix or eight (or twenty, if the occasionso demands) radiators on one pipe lineand make them all work and not haveto run seperate pipes to nearly everyradiator as clearly is the case in certaininstances in both the plans here might fool somebody who didntknow how such things were done, butyou wouldnt fool a practical steamfitter,or even a well educated c
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