20 years should be fine, we have some galvanized fence in a hedge that's from around 1960. It's pretty rusty now, but I'm sure it would have vanished by now if it wasn't protected.

I’ve always heard that the zinc on galvanized steels is a sacrificial coating, so you basically expect it to fail in the long run.

Id be happy to if it was a closet, it’s the the corner of a bedroom wall with no good way to hide a hole without drywall and paint.

Oh yeah, should have updated I’ve had the water off and taken apart the valve, mapp gassed it (even though Mapp gas isn’t what it used to be) and laid heavy foil around the toilet and wall so I could really get it hot.

Pretty sure its not soldered in any way I’ve ever seen (I’ve replaced a water heater and pump tank that both needed cutting and sweating to install).

That would work if there was an 11/16 compression fitting out there. The problem is that the only part of the exposed pipe that's 5/8 (1/2 inch) is mostly stuck in the valve.

I think my new solution might be cutting it off as far from the wall as possible, then I'm pretty sure the remaining pipe will slip fit over 1/2 copper. So I can then sweat in a regular copper pipe (which I'm pretty sure how it's attached inside the wall), and attach a standard valve to the new 1/2 pipe.

It's a bit risky because I don't know the ID of the pipe I'm cutting, but it feels really thin (and already dented easily when I was monkeying around early on).

I was hoping that too, and got a replacement valve already, but heating the old valve isn’t melting anything and not budging.

Is it possible it’s a press fit like https://www.homedepot.com/p/BrassCraft-1-2-in-Sweat-Inlet-x-3-8-in-Compression-Outlet-Multi-Turn-Angle-Valve-with-5-in-Extension-Tube-Bell-Flange-CS40BX-C1/202047063 ?

Yeah it would mean cutting out an access hole in the bedroom behind it.

I heated the hell out of it and it didn’t budge. Im thinking it’s like this https://www.homedepot.com/p/BrassCraft-1-2-in-Sweat-Inlet-x-3-8-in-Compression-Outlet-Multi-Turn-Angle-Valve-with-5-in-Extension-Tube-Bell-Flange-CS40BX-C1/202047063

I’m not sure why anyone in their right minds would install something like that though. It’s impossible to service, and makes replacement a mess.

The walls of the chrome pipe are super thin too.

Yes, and thawing my lawn, where I had to move a project car to keep the driveway clear for snow blowing (which I haven’t even had to start yet).

The damn thing is going to sink and it’s gonna be an even bigger mess than I’d planned.

They have poisonous shit to bite your ankles in those places.

Though the boots could be useful for the stray needles in Hudson.

Cost of living is lower in ME too, and in most places the schools are better too.

Because dispensaries like charging $130, no wait, $300, no wait $30 an ounce.

Yeah, and the projections of (near) future wet-bulb temperatures are pretty scary too: https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/3151/too-hot-to-handle-how-climate-change-may-make-some-places-too-hot-to-live/

Yeah, if it makes a big boom, it’s a bomb. Especially in police and clickbait news reports.

Also it’s dangerous, but intent to harm cannot be assumed without more details. See Hanlon’s Razor.

“When I’m attacked you’re wrong, when I’m attacking I’m right”.

Only the pieces that aren’t sufficiently chewed pass through. This can be why people with tooth problems, can also develop digestive problems, since they can’t properly chew their food.

Yeah, and I think he came up with it for BBS posts.