I Still Have Three Pieces Left Over…
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Wait what were we building? What is going on? I really have no idea. – Frankie Fix-It
Favorite Comments: Bruce says, “Frankie, looks like a poorly laid out automatic change-over system (motorized remote control valves are black) for a Pool and Spa filter system – they gave up, cut all the pipes off the pumps and gear, and hauled out the heaters and pumps from behind it… Leaving the Mario & Luigi’s Plumbers Nightmare sitting out there in one big piece. There is something to be said for putting all the valves in a neat stack in the corner, and leaving clear aisles to get to and repair the other gear in the room. (Especially the electrical panels and timers, Sez The Electrician…)” To which SCAScot replies: “It’s either that, or the worst sprinkler manifold in history.”
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Okay, so this is what happens when a pessimistic control freak installs pool equipment…. I spy with my little eye, 11 valve bodies… BUT they had the foresight to attach flush mount flanges so WHEN It fails they can just pull it all out and give it another try… say tomorrow afternoon? (Oh, and GO LITTLE ZODIAC Silver Ionic cleaner, I have faith in you!)
One hose for the pool vacuum, one for the fancy fountain in the middle, one for the spa bubble-spouts, one for the water slide… I forget what all the other ones were for, that junk was tacky and over the top, so we just cut the pipes and shut the valves…
This is for a lawn irrigation system, not a pool. That’s why there are so many valves, one for each zone on the system.
1 inch lines with what looks like a cartridge filter? I hope they aren’t in California!
EEP! That’s a salt system, not a silver ionic thing- sorry, not enough caffeine.
Pool Nerds
Now I’ve seen it all.
OK, I can take a bit of criticism. Actually there are more than 11 valves:
3 ball valves from pool returns (2 skimmers and main drain) manifolded.
3-way motorized valve that selects pool return or (no longer installed) spa return.
3-way valve that selects between pool/spa and vacuum. The vacuum port is also used to attach an air blower for winterizing.
From there to the pump, not seen behind and to the left of the filter.
Pump output goes through a 3-way valve to select discharge to waste or to filter.
Output of filter goes through 3 2-way valves that allow enabling or bypassing flow to the heat pump.
Then 3 more 2-way valves that did the same for the no-longer-installed gas heater. This was for when the spa was in operation, so the heat pump could be bypassed and winterized in cold weather.
Then through the salt-water chlorinator and a ball valve to control pump head pressure, then a 3-way motorized valve to send water to either pool or spa.
1 additional 2-way valve for priming the vacuum line. 2 small valves, 1 for the water to the slide, another for fill water. A schraeder valve to pressure test the system. A loop to circulate water through the chlorine and ph sensors, a feed line from the acid pump, and that’s about it.
So 18 valves total, counting the small ones.
Perhaps it’s a Star Trek fan’s version of the future plumbing? What else would those generators be other than demolecularizing our waste.
It’s supplying the hot tub time machine.
Where do we hook in the flux capaitor?
I was always wondering what a plumber’s nightmare looked like. Thanks!
It’s no problem, if you can find the 3 missing pieces and the employee that “borrowed” them.
MOUSETRAP!!!
Ooooh! I loved that game!!!!
RTFM
Reminds of of Programming 2 exams…
‘Analyse the following system. Describe it’s behaviour’.
It’s like Pipe Dream, but 3D!
*presses Start then A-B-B-A to stop the water flow*
There, plenty of time to finish the kludge.
Frankie, looks like a poorly laid out automatic change-over system (motorized remote control valves are black) for a Pool and Spa filter system – they gave up, cut all the pipes off the pumps and gear, and hauled out the heaters and pumps from behind it…
Leaving the Mario & Luigi’s Plumbers Nightmare sitting out there in one big piece.
There is something to be said for putting all the valves in a neat stack in the corner, and leaving clear aisles to get to and repair the other gear in the room. (Especially the electrical panels and timers, Sez The Electrician…)
It’s either that, or the worst sprinkler manifold in history.
But if you have a Sawzall, why bother?
the plumbers should do this sort of thing!
so… the Nintendo guys got the multiplayer mario brothers from this video
before filming, mario must have found a rare pwnage shroom. it warps reality and makes you otherwise epic when you eat it
Marble Maze!
Isn’t there some sort of Internet game like this?
I cant see the kludge, my windows screen saver keep on drawing them dang pipes all over my screen.
That’s where they got the plans!
Obviously BP president”s pool installation!
It can’t be – there’s no oil spewing from it.
And, there’s no blowout preventer to malfunction.
Mario’s highway in construction
Reminds me of the pictures of webs by spiders injected with caffeine…
I thought they’d been injected with LSD.
I have the Mario theme song stuck in my head now.
It’s a uranium centrifuge spy photo from Iran.
Hot water is coming to my shower! No, mine! No, me!
Pipe Dreams: Live Action version
A residential sewer line gets a successful quadruple bipass operation.
Oh, I realize now it’s not for sewer waste. No sane person would install a gate valve on a sewer pipe.
I don’t think the person who made this was sane. Still could be sewer.
Really reminds me of the sprinkler system manifold I found when I moved here. I finally just took a sawzall and cut it in little pieces.
People have fun in corn mazes, why can’t water have fun in pipe mazes?
Stick in a few more objects that serve no real purpose and some non-Euclidian geometry and you’ll be close to summoning Machinor.
…Ia ia kludger f’thagan!
The Call of Kludgetuhlu?
It may not look like it from the outside, but this is actually a water-slide park for mice.
I know what they’re building! A screensaver!
It’s a French horn player’s worst nightmare!
A tuba?
I don’t think even the inventor knows how to play it!
It is a completely self contained unit. It does nothing, it is just self contained.
I don’t know if it’s a perpetual motion engine, but this water sure has serious causality issues.
This is what happens when you grow up playing with Omangles.
this is the first portal gun prototype.
My theory is that Mario and Luigi met some hampster maze engineers. The resulting mess can be used as a pet enclosure, filter system, and hydro cannon.
Particle Accelerator Fail: You’re Doing It Wrong
…CERN claims the blueprints for its cooling system circuit…
PVC LHC
I can’t think of any other explanation.
Œuvre from Joan Miró’s cubistic period 1920-25. Then he went on to work with concrete and tiles.
This must have been made by the same guy that installed our pool pump. Ours is such a convoluted mess of pipework & valves; including a few pipe with no purpose what so ever.
They said that I was mad trying to provide clean water for the entire planet!
I’ll show them mad! I’ll give them enough water to drown the world!
Now which of these valves do I need to turn again…
“Y’know sumthin, smart boy?” Bud said quiet-like. “I give it a week. An’ when that thing goes sent-yent au-ton-o-mous, comes walkin’ outta there lookin’ for ya – yer goin’ t’wish t’hell you just hired a perfessional in th’first place. Pers’nally, I keep a shotgun. But don’t you come runnin’ t’me, ’cause if its followin’ close behind ya, well, accidents happen. C’mon, Ben, we’re due cross town.”
I never saw the guy alive again.
“Two more valves, and the water will travel back in time! I’ll have my pool filled last week by the end of the week”
if that thing stands up and comes after me you better bet I am gonna run…
Pipe Mania 3-D, IRL… “SORRY, YOU LOSE!”
Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling!
I just wanted it to build an orange juice machine… my beautiful creation is now sentient…
Anyone for a game of “Mousetrap”?
how do you post a video on bob’s house of videogames?
the video link doesn’t have a bhov option
Jenga 2.0, keep adding pipes till the hot tub stops working.
This is a model of the mushroom kingdom’s catacombs.
And that’s why Princess Peach’s rescue was delayed.
Don’t you guys know? This is how to to get a Warp Zone in the Super Mario Brothers dungeon levels.
I think it’s an Esher model!
where do i put the quarter in?
Pity the poor hamster.