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March 7, 2016

In a Fascinating Coincidence, 'Tool Rental Faux Pas' Is Also the Name of My World Party Tribute Band. But I Digress

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I rented the Electric Eel, and signed up for 50 feet of cable.
The cables for a drain auger come in 10-foot sections. They have a simple, durable, and foolproof mechanism for joining them together. There's a spring-loaded button you depress, which allows you to push two fixed pins in slots on the end of the last section. When it's fully inserted, you twist it to lock it in, and the spring-loaded pin pops out to make it impossible for it to come loose unless the pin is depressed again. If a section of cable became detached in use, you'd be totally boned. There would be no practical way to retrieve it, short of excavating the pipe and busting it open. The ground around here can freeze four or five feet deep in the winter, and I knew that if I lost a piece down the pipe, I might as well put the family in the car and drive away from the home forever. Sippican Cottage:

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 7, 2016 11:39 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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you might not need 50' but this machine certainly would clean out Hillary of all her lies.

Turn it on and let it go until she fesses up to all those horrible atrocities she allowed to happen.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 7, 2016 1:45 PM

This shitty topic is past old already.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 7, 2016 2:11 PM

@veedub, if you're talking about the hitlery we have all come to know and love I must ask, does that contraption have an adapter for an 8" dia snake?

Because I believe the 2" one shown in the pik will flail about never touching any wall surface if you catch my drift.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 7, 2016 6:42 PM

It doesn't matter how well you planned or measured anything. Chances are even though you have 50 ft of cable you will have a block in the drain at 53ft. Murphy's law will take effect when you least need it. As in emergencies, dead of winter, parents coming over for dinner, late for work or life in general and Murphy's law is only useful when you neighbor is being punished with it and you are bored and watching him try to resolve his problem.

Posted by: Neither more nor less [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 8, 2016 1:57 PM

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