Plumbing questions a bubbler

[egdede]

A urinal doesn't make sense in my basement W.Shop : ( It has an old unused laundry hookup. Putting a sink in, and I bought a bubbler. The bubbler is 1/2 FIP. The first one on the page:

https://www.plumbingsupply.com/drinking.html

?: What size line should I run? I can sweat in a t to the 1/2 that will feed the sink line and run any size pipe (I haven't plumbed the sink) to the bubbler and reduce it there, or use an angle stop with a copper line. It is paired with a reducer bushing, and has an adjustment screw, and a tiny hole for drinking. Obviously doesn't need the 1/2". I was going to run a 1/4" line of an angle stop. But maybe there is a reason to run a bigger line or pipe and reduce it at the bubbler?

 

[The Cobbler]

if you have decent pressure, 1/4 will be fine

 

[rlitman]

The fountain has a 1/2" pipe thread, because the pipe is structural. A 1/4" tube will bend when you turn that knob.

What I'd do is stick it on a 1/2" ****** screwed into a drop ear elbow, because that will give you the support you want. Then supply that with 1/4", because 1/4" is fine flow wise.

 

[yatg]

A urinal doesn't make sense in my basement W.Shop : ( It has an old unused laundry hookup. Putting a sink in, and I bought a bubbler.

Is this for a drinking fountain or are you going to pee into your sink and use the bubbler to flush?

 

[egdede]

To drink from. I can be in the house in seconds, so no real excuse to use the sink : )

 

[egdede]

if you have decent pressure, 1/4 will be fine

The fountain has a 1/2" pipe thread, because the pipe is structural. A 1/4" tube will bend when you turn that knob.

What I'd do is stick it on a 1/2" ****** screwed into a drop ear elbow, because that will give you the support you want. Then supply that with 1/4", because 1/4" is fine flow wise.

I have great pressure, a 1/4 line is easiest. Looked at the deck mount bubbler but it had an 'institutional' price. Was looking for a super heavy threaded chrome escutcheon, can't find one. Will probably use that elbow; the framing makes it possible.

Thanks.

 

[Old Man Roger]

I grew up using the term bubbler, when I moved to Florida, from Mass, no one knew what that was..lol

 

[LS6 Tommy]

You picked a good one. A lot of the "new" style bubblers don't have any adjustment and they need a regulator too, or your bubbler will be an eyewash.

Tommy

 

[egdede]

I didn't know it was called a bubbler until I googled a bit.

 

[rburke65]

I first heard th3 term while watching “American Pickers”.

 

[Kev442]

The Bubbler Corp, Milwaukee Wi.

Was stamped on the big chrome handle.

When I moved from Wi to Pa in 4th grade, no one knew what the hell I was talking about. Pointed to the name on it. They didn't even call them drinking fountains, they are water fountains. I said a water fountain has a ******* woman standing in it with water pouring out of an amphora.

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

The Bubbler Corp, Milwaukee Wi.

Was stamped on the big chrome handle.

When I moved from Wi to Pa in 4th grade, no one knew what the hell I was talking about. Pointed to the name on it. They didn't even call them drinking fountains, they are water fountains. I said a water fountain has a ******* woman standing in it with water pouring out of an amphora.

Up until your post I was thinking about adding a bubbler or drinking fountain in my shop. But a water fountain sounds even better.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

I said a water fountain has a ******* woman standing in it with water pouring out of an amphora.

Or a cherubish boy peeing.

Tommy

 

[andyvh1959]

Bubbler in Wisconsin is a water fountain. Always has been.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

BTW, if it has refrigeration, it's no lounger a fountain. It's a water cooler.

Tommy

 

[bobj49f2]

Bubbler in Wisconsin is a water fountain. Always has been.

I was told only people from the Milwaukee area called a drinking fountain a "bubbler". I know many times when I was out of the immediate Milwaukee area in Wisconsin most people didn't refer to them that way.

 

[Bogie1632]

I was told only people from the Milwaukee area called a drinking fountain a "bubbler". I know many times when I was out of the immediate Milwaukee area in Wisconsin most people didn't refer to them that way.

Not just Milwaukee, but its seems to be a generational thing. My kids know what a bubbler is but usually call them water fountains. I always called them a bubbler because that's what my grandfathers always called them and seems to still be common in the Northern part of the state and with some Yooper friends. Heck..on the farm even the end of the water hose got called a bubbler when you were thirsty...no way in hell you went into grandma's house for a drink unless it was breakfast, lunch, or supper.

And now I want a bubbler in my garage...

V/R
Bogie

 

[Old Man Roger]

In parts of Mass it was a Bubbla, no R's..lol

 

[csp]

In parts of Mass it was a Bubbla, no R's..lol

A Wootah bubblah

 

[WisJim]

I grew up in central and southwestern Wisconsin and always knew it as a "bubbler".