[Shop-talk] Finding underground plastic water pipes.

Doug Braun doug at dougbraun.com
Fri Apr 17 19:40:41 MDT 2009


Or have somebody bang on an exposed portion of the pipe and listen for that.
Doug

--- On Fri, 4/17/09, Randall <tr3driver at ca.rr.com> wrote:

> From:
Randall <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Finding underground
plastic water pipes.
> To: shop-talk at autox.team.net
> Date: Friday, April 17,
2009, 5:28 PM
> > Anyone have any other idea? 
> 
> Ok, this is kind of
screwball, but it might work: Put a
> buzzer or better yet
> some sort of
speaker playing a readily recognized noise on
> the pipes where
> they are
exposed.  The water in the pipes should carry
> the sound better than
> the
surrounding soil, so a mechanic's stethoscope or
> similar should let you
>
map out the pipes.  Maybe?
> 
> -- Randall


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