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Favorite Comment: Fixer ck159 says, “Personally, I imagined this minor and forgotten pipe silently sabotaging all of the other drains, valves, and connections just so it could get it’s long-overdue recognition (at the expense of everyone in the building who wishes to use the plumbing, of course)“
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Looks like somebody got a promotion!
No one will screw with me anymore
lolz
Makes me gotta go drain my main vein.
I don’t see anything funny, or different about this, it is just the MAIN AUXILIARY DRAIN, you know Vs. the main, auxiliary one. What is not known here is: that valve is open, and connected to my bank account.
If the auxiliary got promoted, I wonder how is the real main drain doing…
I think the caption makes it funny. “Congrats on your promotion”, lol.
This is called a battlefield promotion. When all your superiors die and you have to step up. This is the quickest and cheapest plumbing job. Tidy too, any of us would have written it with a Sharpie over duct tape.
Main drains don’t die, they just gurgle away.
Personally, I imagined this minor and forgotten pipe silently sabotaging all of the other drains, valves, and connections just so it could get it’s long-overdue recognition (at the expense of everyone in the building who wishes to use the plumbing, of coarse)
It’s all good until the pipe finds out what it now has to drain…
And through attaching a sticker onto thine label, I promote thou to Main Drain!
… now tell me: WHO’S THE MAIN???
The label”drain” hangs mainly from a chain.
By George, you’ve got it!
Actually this sign is still incorrect, this should be a “Sectional” drain. This appears to be a drain valve on a fire sprinkler system, probably in a stair tower. Behind the sign on the pipe is what looks like a site glass used to verify water flow through the pipe, usually found in stair towers with other control valves and water flow switches. There are three types on drains on a sprinkler system: Main, Auxiliary, and Sectional. This cannot be the “Main” drain; typically main drains are 2″ pipe (this looks like 1″) and at the beginning of the system. Probably not an “Auxiliary” drain as these are on low points on the system and do not need to have a site glass. Leads me to believe this is an “Sectional” drain – or could even be what’s called an “inspectors test” which is nothing like a drain. Either way the sign is still wrong and therefor not “fixed”.
Meh
I’m hoping this was just a case of mislabelling that would’ve been too difficult to fix properly.
I would have just swapped the signs to their appropriate drains.