it will have to be completely drained before you can get it hot enough.
even one drop of water will prevent proper heating. Best thing you can do
is cut it off and replace the valve with a compression type valve.

s

"SteveC" wrote in message
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I have a leak in my hot water tap for the clothes washer, it's coming from
where the tap was soldered to the copper pipe coming from the wall. I
tried to heat up the solder to remove it to replace it, put I could not get
the solder to melt? I was using one of those blue torches, but could not
get it hot enough, what was I doing wrong?? What would I need to get that
tap off???

Thanks

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