Rube Goldberg

[Lawdwaz]

So yesterday my 6 month old sump pump went south on me and I was working of course.  Ran home and took a peek.......wife already had back up pump in the crock and draining to the street via garden hose.  

Pulled croaked pump and returned it no questions asked to Ed Young's Hardware. Came home later in the day and got it up and running.  

All is working good except the basement got some water around the east wall and now it smells like my feet.  Went to hook up the dehumidifier and found my drain hose has gone south too!  WTH......I hate running a dehumidifier with just the dinky tank as it fills so fast and then shuts off. I stumbled around the shed, garage and basement for almost an hour, looking for some piece of 1/2" ID hose to go over the drain pipe.  Damn, nothing. 

Then I started looking for a piece of pipe that would just drain it to a 5 gallon bucket, that way it'd run all night and make things all purty again down here.  Nope, nothing I can find then all of a sudden it dawned on me, how about the clear plastic tube that one of my T/C ramrods came in?  PERFECTION!!!

She's pissing right fine now!!!!

 

Edited May 27, 2017 by Lawdwaz

[Steve D]

With all that moisture you may want to move those guns in the background....or oil them down good!

[Lawdwaz]

2 minutes ago, Steve D said:

With all that moisture you may want to move those guns in the background....or oil them down good!

They've seen much more moisture than this little episode, they're users.

[grampy]

Good old fashioned yankee ingenuity. Nice going!