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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 9755043" data-attributes="member: 6750306">No progress on getting the car on the road (or off the road, as the case may be, since it's sitting in the street right now), but since there was nothing more I could do with the vehicle I took the time to finish drilling out the hole in the basement wall to replace the leaking pipe.I had a plan, and my old man screwed it up. But fortunately not to a serious degree this time. I told him, while I was working on the car, that the next step in the process of taking off the old, leaking pipe was to cut one hose clamp that was stuck, and then to pull out the old coupling without damaging the end of the pipe. I was going to use my Dremel, but the old man decided to cut the hose clamp with his diamond bit on his grinder. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />  I ended up losing an inch of good pipe because he went right through the hose clamp and halfway through the pipe. Inside the house, he cut off the leaky pipe near the wall as ordered, but somehow managed to lose the metal coupling with the two attached hoseclamps that was on the pipe in the process.He also cost me another $130 because I had bought a large concrete hole bit for the drill, and the old man's human-black-hole powers struck again - It was nowhere to be found today, despite my having seen it literally two days ago in the exact place where it's been sitting for the past several weeks. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> Had to buy a new one.But I currently have water in the house for the first time in six months although I'm cautiously watching to see if my handiwork holds.</blockquote>

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