On 9/14/05, Steven Trovato <strovato@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> The refrigerator theory sounds good, except he said it only leaks when the
> faucet is turned on. On most faucets, I wouldn't know how to hook it up
> like that, but for the moment I'll take his word for it. It's much too
> small for a dishwasher drain line.
>
> The one time I was tempted to do something like this was to send some water
> to a floor drain. If a floor drain has a trap, for the trap to be
> functional there must be water in it. If it never gets used, the water
> will evaporate. Then you basically have an open pathway to whatever is at
> the other end.
A little oil (salad, not motor!) in the trap greatly slows the rate of
evaporation.
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David Scheidt
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