Garden irrigation field note
The pressure on our creek
pumping irrigation system turns out to be too high for the threads
on these plastic connectors. It kept popping off until I wrapped a
generous layer of plumber's tape around the threads. That fix lasted a
full year before it started popping off again.
Fast forward to the end of
this story where a metal connector seems to have no problem handling
the high pressure.
The full metal solution was
only 2 dollars compared to 49 cents on the plastic version. One new
discovery I made during this trip to the store is that Lowe's
will now give a military discount to all active duty, retired, and
veterans all year long.
10 percent is nothing to sneeze at. The only proof they need is some
sort of government issued card.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Thanks for your service Vester. That card should do the trick. All I needed was my VA card.
I was also in the Navy. I'd be curious to hear what your rate was and if you started off on the East coast or West coast?