What is your excuse for buying big copper

[newengland]

I explained that I was making steam-heated cold frames.

[Brendan]

My favourite one is when ordering 2 x 90 degree bends (or 180 deg bend) and they ask what you are doing with it...

Well i'm turning a pipe 180 degrees aren't I...can you suggest anything better suited to the task!?

[ohyeahyeah]

In my experience wholesalers won't ask questions. But good luck buying less then a full stick at a time.

[Cardinalbags]

For all the smaller stuff that I get at home depot, there are usually no questions asked. 17 year old part timers working the register only know to look for the barcode and couldn't give a shit about what you're up to.

At the place that I picked up some of the more larger or harder to get parts, I did get asked the proverbial question "Whuffo you need all this stuff for?" I answered that I was making hobby scale heat exchangers. When he asked what the hobby scale heat exchangers were for, I simply answered for cooling the centrifuges in my backyard Uranium enrichment plant. I didn't get any more questions after that.

[Richard7]

I simply answered for cooling the centrifuges in my backyard Uranium enrichment plant. I didn't get any more questions after that.

His next question would have been, "What is uranium enrichment?" but he could not remember those 2 big words next to each other! LOL

[baron4406]

Funny I work as an industrial mechanic, i tore out a huge bunch of copper pipe about 5 years ago and my boss asked me to hide it because another night shift mechanic was scrounging up all the scrap copper and selling it, our company used to give away scrap for free back then. Well he retired, the stash stayed hidden, and when I got into the hobby I simply took it home. My new boss/parts man is very cool - as long as I'm not selling the stuff they view it as a fringe benefit if need a few fittings and stuff like that. Its why I have 5 stills lol.........well down to 3 now I used some parts. Funny if your cheap and you have a bunch of used fittings you don't mind desoldering and cleaning them. I actually bought a MAPP torch so I could desolder 3" copper