2022 At 78 RPM-Part 9
In other news, I replaced the faucet on the kitchen sink. Turns out that I didn't need to because I found a screen deep inside the mechanism that was almost totally clogged up, but I didn't know it was there. I thought the cartridge was plugged up and I couldn't get it out to replace it. So I just started over again. The process was rather straightforward until I couldn't find the special wrench they used to install it. That necessitated a second trip to the hardware store, but they didn't have what I needed. I got a deep-well socket set instead, but they weren't deep enough. I went hunting through my old toolbox, and found a short stubby wrench that did the trick. Second trip was necessitated when I got close to the end and wound up trying to connect a 3/8" female end to a 1/2" female end. That trip forced me to come home empty handed when I couldn't find a likely adapter and I realized I wasn't sure of the thread types. Next morning, armed with a little more info, I went to a new hardware store and came home with a handful of adapters to do the trick. Sure enough, everything screwed together and worked fine until I turned the water on, and water sprayed everywhere out of my new joints. After a few tries, I discovered a discovered a washer on the old hardware that wasn't on the new hardware. A few more tries and I figured out how the washer was supposed to work. At that point, everything worked after only being screwed together hand-tight. Which matched the way I took it apart, actually. I was poking around and it came apart when I turned it with my fingers. That's why I jumped in thinking the whole thing would take half an hour. Eighteen hours later, we put the kitchen back together and enjoyed the new free-flowing faucet. Next up, the Insinkerator! It's been frozen up and leaking through a cracked casing for years. I gotta attack it while I'm feeling brave. :)
Edit-4 Jan 2023-Added tracklist for searching.
1. Teresa Brewer With Chorus And Orchestra Directed By Jack Pleis-Ebenezer Scrooge
2. Two Ton Baker And Jerry Murad's Harmonicats-Vocal By Two Ton Baker, Little Girl-Joan Alt-Frosty The Snowman
3. Stanley Fritts And The Korn Kobblers-Vocal By Stanley Fritts And Ensemble-Jingle Bells
4. George Beverly Shea With Choir And Orchestra-Sleep Precious Babe
5. Freddy Martin And His Orchestra-Vocal Refrain By Murray Arnold-The Night Before Christmas (In Texas That Is)
6. Merv Shiner With The Pinetoppers-Don't Wait 'Till The Night Before Christmas
7. Roye Goodrich With The Holidays-Home For The Holidays
8. The Unitones-Directed By George Mitchell-The Merry Christmas Polka
9. Frankie Carle And His Orchestra-The Winter Waltz
10. Mrs. Sidney Rauh (Narrator)-Under The Mistletoe
Thanks Ernie for this set from the IA, especially the Christmas Polka: Who knew you would have more "new" finds from the archive than when you started!
ReplyDeleteAs for your kitchen woes, way to persevere- always feels good to have new stuff in the kitchen. Hope you can cut down on 18 hours for the next project
- Steve in PA
I gave up trying to fix things about 30 years ago. It's easier to call Chuck the Plumber.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the weekly loot!
Steve-The Internet Archive just keeps bringing in the 78s and I keep digging through the new stacks. It's amazing the stuff they've found and digitized. I can find something new in there almost every day!
ReplyDeleteBuster-I should call Chuck, but it seemed to simple to buy a faucet and plug it in the whole. Now I'm installing shelves over the washer and dryer, and it went pretty easy. :)
Ernie - It makes my back hurt just reading about all your projects. I haven't done anything since organizing my record collection a few years ago. (Of course, I just went down there looking for something and couldn't find it.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for this grouping of niceties - couple of good un' here - poor Merv - comes out with these nice songs and then along come Gene Autry to capitalize on them all - I hope Merv got his share but suspect he did not
ReplyDeleteHome for the holidays has the same feel to it that Sinatra's "I'm homesick, that's all" song did, longing for a time (which most likely never existed) but lives on in our memory - very nice
Thanks again for the heavy lifting here - Mac
ReplyDeleteI took out a garbage disposal with a holed casing; I never used the disposal anyway. I found that there are a million kits available to add a disposal, but it was quite difficult to find the parts necessary to eliminate the disposal and plumb the drain to where I wanted it--that was the hard part.
Is that "Don't wait..." the same one you posted a while back?
Merv Shiner had a later full Christmas album that I've shared in the past, and I like it, but I don't think it went anywhere. I think he went up against Gene Autry in the Easter song battle, too, and won that one!
ReplyDeleteAnd I would remove the disposal if I thought that would be easier, but no... And I don't think this is the same as any of the other versions I've shared before. First heard that song on a non-Lp 45 from Bob James in a rare vocal from him. Good stuff, but forgotten today.