Press Fittings Help Plumber Conquer Remote Mountain Job

To replace 44 couplings on a 1,000-foot-long waterline running from a mountaintop tank to a Boy Scout camp and still keep the job profitable, Mike Purkey relied on press tool technology

Press Fittings Help Plumber Conquer Remote Mountain Job

Two things stood between Mike Purkey and the biggest job of his plumbing career: climbing a mountain and getting the work done before the snow started to fly.

The job was at Camp Oljato, a Boy Scouts facility located at 7,200 feet elevation in California’s Sierra Nevada...

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