This month I want to share some interesting tidbits (smaller than nuggets) I've learned over the years in the plumbing industry. Some of my earliest memories are being on jobsites with my father Adrian, who passed away at the age of 92 in March 2016. What I'm remembering may have been as early as 1959 or as late as 1962 on a Saturday morning in the community of Fletcher Hills in San Diego County. I don't know if hubless pipe and fittings were available, but I remember on this particular job Dad and his brother Cecil (Kirk Brothers' Plumbing) were installing the DWV system with hub & spigot cast iron. How do I remember something that took place 55 years ago? I was tasked with cutting the 25 lb pigs of lead into 5 lb. ingots (Fig. 1) to be melted in the lead pot sitting atop a butane fired burner.
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