ECN Forum Forums Photo Discussion Forums Photos for General Discussion Shouldn't this have been done with Monofilament

You guys have got to get with the times. This is the new corrosion defiant plastic coated copper plumbing entrance pipe. It is used where the soil is especially corrosive and has to be bonded to the service in order for the pvc coated to stay bonded to the copper. Lets keep up with technology... good thing for these forums.

thanks renosteinke.i thought maybe it was steel pipe,can't see the back of the elbow.this is defintely a canadate for the darwin award!

Maybe the plumber did it? The Bond/Ground was there when he re-did the water, and just put it back where it was? The valve is obviously being re-used.

Whats that wire under the regulator? Does it go to copper right after that?

Either way, silly!

Good point E57

My guess is the other end goes to a GFI receptacle for the ironing board.

Dnk....

Well of COURSE you have to bond the plastic water pipe.

You know eventually that cheap junk's gonna spring a leak and ... there's your ground connection right there.

Reminds me of a true story from my days of teaching high school vo-tech. The class was on FS boxes and outdoor circuits. I had one student (a senior, no less) who could absolutely not understand why his magnetic level would not stick to the aluminum FS box. I guess he went on to do service bonding.

Well, the "F" in the FS designation originally stood for "ferrous", right?

No, it's the new inverted thinking method. Exchange insulating materials and conducting materials. Though to do that properly (?) you'd need copper pipe with nylon rope inside to ground that plastic pipe...

Related to that other thread in that other forum on this web site about management skills, maybe some boss told someone to ground the water pipe. "But it's... " "Shut up and do it!" "Okay"....

EXACTLY! Then pulled an Ollie North when the hammer came down after the inspection.