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About Bill Hutson
Expertise
Founder and President of Table Talk Foundation for Better Living Inc. a non-profit organization aimed at making free home repairs for the elderly, the disabled and the disadvantaged. I have extensive expertise pertaining to cost effective rehabilitation and repair in older homes as well as all phases of newer residential construction.

Experience
Remodel and rehab contractor from 1979 to 1993 specializing in restaurant remodel and home restoration. Jobsite troubleshooter assisting residential contractors through KA Components, Mid America Truss, and Kerkhoff Associates from 1993 until 2002. Contractors' consultant 1990 to present. Used as a construction expert in the local court system. Registered contractor with The Fedral Government, FEMA and several insurance companies. Master Carpenter at Table Talk Ministries a non-profit organization aimed at making free home repairs for those who could not ohterwise afford to have them done.

Organizations
Table Talk Foundation for Better Living Inc. www.tabletalkministries.org Founder/President.

Publications
Features have been published in Fleet Owner's Magazine, Trucker's News Magazine, The Daily Clintonian Newspaper, The Hoosier Topics Newspaper, and The Banner Graphic Newspaper several times. We have also done features on WKJK and WREB radio stations. WXIN 59 Indianapolis, WTHI 10 Terre Haute

Education/Credentials
Northwestern State University

Awards and Honors
"Make a Difference Award" from WTHI channel 10 in Terre Haute Indiana. We have recently received the Fueling Good prize from Citgo where we won free gas for a year, that will help us in our efforts to make homes warm, safe and dry for our elderly and disabled neighbors. We were recently featured on WXIN 59 in Indianapolis on their "Paying it Forward" segment, mainly because I pay for 90% of the repairs that Table Talk makes from my own pocket.

Past/Present Clients
We focus our attention to the elderly, the disabled and the disadvantaged. We are receiving clients from 1 Federal and 5 State Agencies, 9 different public and private organizations plus multiple churches and hospitals.

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Home Improvement--General - shower mount

Expert: Bill Hutson - 11/1/2009

Question
Dear Expert,
I am replacing a hand held shower head. My old shower head was mounted on a standard wall arm. A typical arm is about 6 inches long; add to it a swivel shower head (about 5-6 inches long) and the head is mounted about 11-12 inches from the wall, with the hose on the way. I could not find a shorter wall arm; for some reason, nobody makes them.
I am thinking about modifying the arm by cutting off both ends to about 1 inch long and re-threading it. I believe the standard arms have 1/2-14 NPT thread. The shower head I am buying is specified as having 1/2-14 NPSM connection, but anyway it should mount on a standard arm. I know that NPT is a tapered pipe thread and NPSM is straight. They probably make a leak-proof connection using teflon tape. I will try to find a 1/2-14 NPT die and re-thread the wall arm. Do you think it will work?
Thanks for the help.

Answer
Alex,

That will work, if you can rethread that successfully, it's pretty thin and may collapse on you, you'll need to be careful with it, but when you get it rethreaded, just use the pipe tape and it won't leak.
You can also just go to the hardware and buy a 1/2" pipe nipple in the length you need and use that also, instead of trying to rethread the old pipe.

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