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| Halcyon:
How the hell did coin cell batteries turn into a discussion about water and dishwashers?! Wait... don't answer that. |
| tszaboo:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 04, 2021, 09:02:30 am ---How the hell did coin cell batteries turn into a discussion about water and dishwashers?! Wait... don't answer that. --- End quote --- It's like Godwin's law, but with dishwashers and American jerrycans. |
| David Hess:
--- Quote from: tooki on January 04, 2021, 03:02:24 am --- --- Quote from: Zero999 on December 29, 2020, 05:34:31 pm ---I bet there's a fairly long drop before the sewer, otherwise it wouldn't flush so well. When the toilet flushes, the inertia and siphon effect of the water passing down the long pipe, helps suck the rest of the contents of the toilet bowl out. If you've got a short pipe going into the sewer, it won't flush so well. --- End quote --- I don't believe the physics of siphons work that way. Inertia has nothing to do with it. But moreover, my toilet (like all of them I have ever seen here in Switzerland) is a non-siphon toilet. In my case (like in essentially all modern toilets here) it's a washdown toilet. Assuming your country flag is correct, you're in the UK, where washdown toilets are also the norm. True siphon toilets (the dominant type in my home country of USA) are entirely different beasts. --- End quote --- Steve Mould recently mentioned the different types of toilets in connection with syphons: https://youtu.be/D07aJB0Blzw In the US, sewer lines are vented at the source through a roof vent so any suction would just pull air in from outside. Inertia causes the siphon to continue past the point where air is drawn through. |
| VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 04, 2021, 09:02:30 am ---How the hell did coin cell batteries turn into a discussion about water and dishwashers?! Wait... don't answer that. --- End quote --- How did the discussion of coin cell battery safety morph to toilets? I guess they think safety is part of Cisterns Engineering :-DD. As for safety, any small parts are dangerous to young kids, especially in the choking area. Toddlers walking around with sharp objects like screwdrivers is also very risky. As is pots with boiling water or whatever with the handles in reach of young children. Also mains walls sockets not covered, especially in countries like Australia with 230 VAC mains. And of course swimming pools. Parents and grandparents should do a serious safety audit of their home. When I was a kid I was sucking a stone and got it trapped in my windpipe. Almost choked to death. As a kid my friends and I threw asbestos fibres at each other at a building site and I had a tor used for hopscotch made of asbestos. When I was about 5, I could not swim but I managed to walk underwater across an irrigation channel on my uncle's farm for a distance of about 4 metres - I was very lucky not to have drowned. "You should not be here" - a quote from the "11.22.63" sci-fi TV Series. |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: tooki on January 04, 2021, 03:02:24 am --- --- Quote from: Zero999 on December 29, 2020, 05:34:31 pm --- --- Quote from: tooki on December 29, 2020, 01:47:55 pm --- --- Quote from: Zero999 on December 29, 2020, 10:34:29 am --- --- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on December 29, 2020, 12:18:22 am ---Any of you who fully understand the consuption of beer from the glass will understand the sacrilege of not rinsing out the detergent. --- End quote --- I don't touch alcohol, nasty stuff, so no, I don't understand what you mean with that comment. --- End quote --- Alcohol is fine when enjoyed in moderation. No need for judginess. --- End quote --- Don't be overly sensitive. It's my opinion. I don't enjoy the effects of alcohol, even in moderation. It's truly nasty stuff. --- End quote --- Then you say "I don't like it". Saying that something is "nasty" (as in, an inherent trait of the thing, as opposed to your opinion on it) is just plain rude. --- End quote --- Yes, nasty, dirty, revolting: all words commonly used to describe things one finds unpleasant. You really need to be less sensitive. I wasn't even replying to you, yet you took offence on someone else's behalf, when they haven't even complained about being offended. --- Quote --- --- Quote from: Zero999 on December 29, 2020, 05:34:31 pm --- --- Quote ---Nope, I'm actually on the bottom floor. --- End quote --- I bet there's a fairly long drop before the sewer, otherwise it wouldn't flush so well. When the toilet flushes, the inertia and siphon effect of the water passing down the long pipe, helps suck the rest of the contents of the toilet bowl out. If you've got a short pipe going into the sewer, it won't flush so well. --- End quote --- I don't believe the physics of siphons work that way. Inertia has nothing to do with it. But moreover, my toilet (like all of them I have ever seen here in Switzerland) is a non-siphon toilet. In my case (like in essentially all modern toilets here) it's a washdown toilet. Assuming your country flag is correct, you're in the UK, where washdown toilets are also the norm. True siphon toilets (the dominant type in my home country of USA) are entirely different beasts. --- End quote --- Yes, I'm in the UK and it is a washdown toilet. I believe the momentum of the water going down the drain is helping to flush the upstairs toilet, better than the downstairs. They're both exactly the same brand, model and age, so I can't think of any other reason why this is the case. The only other explanation is the downstairs one has some sort of fault, but it's not like it doesn't flush at all, just not so well. |
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