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JWKAtl t1_iuhpb6f wrote
Reply to comment by lostarchitect in Can't fit any wrenches to under the handle to turn water off in my bathroom sink. by Goe_Phaste
Yep. I did that twice this weekend.
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Reply to comment by PleaseBeginReplyWith in Can't fit any wrenches to under the handle to turn water off in my bathroom sink. by Goe_Phaste
Easy to miss if you don't know what you're looking for.
We had to get a new whole house shutoff recently. I definitely had a pro do that one!
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Reply to comment by Kinexity in New solar capacity 10 times cheaper than gas, says intelligence company Rystad by EnergyTransitionNews
The answer is megaflow batteries. The concept is a battery made up of tanks of liquid. The challenge is to find liquids which are inexpensive and safe.
The current technology seems to be focused on vanadium, but scientists have been working on even simpler solutions. Believe it or not, there's been a lot of research in this area involving rhubarb.
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Reply to comment by TVLL in Can't fit any wrenches to under the handle to turn water off in my bathroom sink. by Goe_Phaste
And if the water continues to flow then your shutoff valve is dead so you'll need to kill the water to the entire house
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Reply to comment by rolltododge in Can't fit any wrenches to under the handle to turn water off in my bathroom sink. by Goe_Phaste
Man, I hate those things. They slip off a lot of the time, and I always seem to get them backwards. But sometimes that's the only tool for the job, and I'm glad to have one.
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Reply to comment by ninjamike808 in Can't fit any wrenches to under the handle to turn water off in my bathroom sink. by Goe_Phaste
That does look like a nice alternative. But hopefully I'm good on faucet replacements for a while after two this weekend.