Gray's Plumbing Design and Installation (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Gray's Plumbing Design and Installation This volume is offered with the firm conviction that it is needed and will be welcomed by the majority of plumbing craftsmen. It is desired to have the reader know at the outset that a mechanic is speaking, - one who has served on a wide range of work in every capacity afforded by the trade and its interests. In some respects much of the literature devoted to the trade has not given the most needed help to a large majority, though it has catered all but too well to a minority that was prepared to succeed fairly without it. Too little has been heard from the competent man on the job. He has not sufficiently laid before the craft in his own way the problems he met in practice, how he overcame them, with what result, how such procedures might be applied to the general run of kindred problems, etc. He has not told what line of data he found deficient, unwieldy or absent, what he successfully adapted and appropriated to his own use from the general cycle of knowledge, and how he did it. If he has made rules from practice that work, sifted the good out of suspicious looking engineering formulae, expanded some mathematics of the trade to a point where his graded-school helper could understand and apply it, or figured out the short cut to results from some processes that the mechanic's leisure is too short to apply, he has left his brethren too much in the dark about it. The conditions under which the mass of craftsmen secure and execute their work in different sections of the country are vastly different, seventy-five per cent. Of the men interested in the business must settle their own problems from start to finish because there is none other at hand competent to design the work and point out the specific things to be done in order to get desired results. It is to be hoped that it will be ever so for it is this state of affairs that has contributed most to making the plumbing of this country superior to that of any other. It was with the above in mind that the author has worked from first to last. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.