On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:11:34 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:

So have been doing a bit of plumbing recently to install a new hot water
tank and tidying up a lot of old stuff leftover from what appears to be
many years of job on job on job ... And I've found quite a few pipe
joins that are made without a sleeve - they have expanded one ond of a
pipe just enough to push the next section in, then solder.

Is this a technique of olden times as I'm not sure I've seen it before.

It does seem to make for a neater join with only one soldering required
as opposed to both sides of a sleeve... Is there a magic tool to expand
the end of the pipe without it splitting?

Cheers,

Gordon

================================================== ============

I've got the hand-tool version. It has two sliding formers (15mm + 22mm)
and works a bit like a slide hammer with a hammer. It's hard work and not
really worth the effort most of the time.

Cic.

--
================================================== =============
Using Ubuntu Linux 9.04
Windows shown the door
================================================== =============