People who know guns are also smart about other stuff.?

Question

I shoot, I hang out with people who shoot.People who shoot are some of the smartest people I know, seriously, all kidding aside so cut it out.
This is simply to satisfy my curiosity.
The faucet in my kitchen is the closest one to the hot water heater and it's the only one this particular oddity occurs on.
When I turn the hot water on in the kitchen, and let it run with my hand under it, it gradually gets warmer, as it should, then there's a sudden, quick blast of cold water, then it's hot immediately afterwards. This has always happened, for about 20 years that I've had this house. All the other faucets just gradually get warm until it's all the way hot, no sudden blast of cold water. Any speculation or conjecture as to why this is happening with my kitchen hot water faucet?
This has been an ongoing curiosity with me, since I first bought this house 20+ years ago, never really thought to ask anyone about it until I discovered yahoo answer!
Thanks for reading.

Randkl, you of course are the exception to my statement where i said shooters are some of the smartest people I know.....
People like you give the rest of us a bad name.

James J, thanks for your answer, but i don't have a dishwasher, i guess i could have added that to my question.

The Alchemist and Boker, you're both right about the common sense and shooters going hand in hand, that's why I asked this here.The reason I hang out with shooters is because they've got their acts together. I came here hoping to make some friends too, but i guess there's always going to be that one in every crowd that trys to ruin it for everyone else.

rand, you really do have a some problems dont you, your claiming that jd and i are the same person now? wow, what color is the sky in your world, I dont think jd even knows me idiot. I only know of him by reading his answers, and upon further investigation finding out he was right. I think personally think you're paranoid and spend too much time on the computer.... but that's just me. Have a nice life rand, I found out I can block you on yahoo. another reason to like yahoo answers!

Answer 1

You're right. Most shooters have a variety of knowledge and because of the practical and common sense often necessary to diagnose problems with their guns and shooting, they often do seem to be fairly sensible individuals.

Now, that said, having come from a family that owned a major commercial plumbing company the trait you are describing is common in the nearest or least restrictive line attached to the water heater. What usually happens is the line on top of the heater tends to warm a bit from the rising heat(convection) in the heater. When you turn the faucet on you get that first warm water from the main line followed by the rest of the cooler water in the system. Then you will get the regular reaction all of your other faucets give. The reason it does not happen anywhere else is because there is sufficient cold water in the lines farther away to mix and therefore, mask the initial flow of warmer water

Answer 2

Trace the lines. Does the hot water line feeding the kitchen cross/contact a cold water line anywhere in it's run? If a cold waer line is touching then it will remain warm after use in the first part of the line. The cold water line will pick up/transfer more heat due to the fact that there is a movement of water to carry it, and this could produce a cold spot. Then coming out of the water heater is the hot water.

There could also be a section of hot water line missing insulation. Just gotta look and see.

Answer 3

automatic weapons have been unlawful for an somewhat long term... end pretending to be an expert on some thing you do no longer understand plenty approximately. what's a "severe-injury" weapon? the common commercial searching rifle is chambered in .30-06, .270, or .308. The M4 utilized with the aid of the U. S. military is chambered in 5.56x45 (approximately .223 - plenty smaller). A .204 or .17 high quality bullet can unquestionably kill you. the only difficulty "clever gun" technologies prevents is somebody from on the instant utilising it instant. And combating sons and daughters from hurting themselves. Even then, by no skill anticipate a gun is a hundred% risk-free - it somewhat is exceedingly plenty rule #one million of firearm accountability. Now so a procedures as historic past exams are in contact, and taking extra measures to ward off mentally deranged people from procuring weapons, I do help that concept. the undertaking although, is that that's unenforceable, and there is not any longer something combating suggested individual from stealing them from a kinfolk member (that's what got here approximately at the two Sandy Hook and long island). and of direction none of this prevents people from utilising the black industry, that's the place maximum individuals of weapons utilized in gang violence come from besides. EDIT: extra people have been killed with the aid of hammers than ARs final 12 months. very very nearly 400x as many people have been killed with the aid of inebriated drivers, and an outrageously severe selection have been killed with the aid of clinical malpractice. Gun administration is, with the aid of assessment, a non-difficulty.

Answer 4

Kitchen faucet...
....let's see....
Do you have a dishwasher?
I suspect it's the line from the sink hot-water to the dishwasher. When the faucet reaches a certain pressure, it suctions the (cold) water up out of the dishwasher portion of the line and spits it out the faucet.

Mine does the same thing.

Answer 5

The Alchemist has this one nailed, I feel the same way both of you two do. Most of the shooters I know have more common sense in their little fingers than liberals and other nutjobs have in their entire body.

Randkl, it seems no one here likes the way you answered. Maybe give some consideration to the man before you get mouthy with him.Most of us here try to make friends with each other, why are you trying to alienate yourself?

Answer 6

my best guess is a low spot in the line holding cooler water, as the flow of hot water increases it mixes gradually then pushes the denser cold water through all at once. Its not happening with the other faucets because the extra length allows a more gradual mix of hot and cold water.

if there's air in the line you may be getting air lock, but that usually happens in high flow systems.

Answer 7

Nikomat7 beat me to the punch. His answer is very nearly the same as mine. I was going to suggest that the heating of the pipe caused it to shift slightly causing a slug of cold water to be released. Mine is close to what Nikomat7's and that makes him firstest with the mostest so give the ten points to him. He earned them.

Oh, and hey Randkl, cut him some slack, the man prefaced his question with the statement that he recognized us as the smart ones. Obviously he knows what he is talking about and has come to the right place to get good answers.

Answer 8

Sounds like Nikomat7 aced this one. Give him 'best answer.'

Best.

H

Answer 9

And this has to do with hunting in what way?

Addendum to Zastava: Ya know, Z, you asking that sort of question in a hunting category sorta belies the "smart" you seem to credit us with.

Yahoo answers is set up in a hierarchical system so that questions like yours can be addressed by the folks who know how to answer your questions. If categories are beyond you, perhaps you need to go back to the beginning and read the help files?

Btw, chatting is also against the rules.

Addendum to Boker: Ya know, Boker, most times I would....but YOU didn't get the garbage emails I have from this freak. He started off out of the blue emailing me whining about how JD is so sweet yada yada yada.

You want to make friends with him, feel free to. I don't feel the inclination.

Addendum to Boker: And your point is?

If JD (and this zesty fellow alias of his) would act like real men and not the jackasses they are, perhaps they'd be more deserving of respect than of derision.

If you know some other reason why they deserve passes for not only WRONG info, but outright lies and rampant cheating....perhaps JD has contributed a kidney or something (knowing him, he'll claim he's donated four of them) and deserves some respect? Maybe he's a five gallon blood donator? Maybe not.

Again, what was your point?

Answer 10

Shooting is a hobby for me. I do plenty of other things than shoot. Is that what you mean.