Bob La Londe wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Bob La Londe wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Buerste wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I used it on an out of round compression fitting on a toilet
shutoff
valve. It filled the void, and stopped the leak until I replaced the
toilet a year later. The 'plumber' had used too short of a tube and
crimped it before the gland nut was tight enough. I'm not saying to
use
it every time, but sometimes it keeps you from being without running
water while you get the right parts.

God, I HATE compression fittings! Shark-Bites are TOOOOO cool!


I might be getting old, but I still prefer soldered copper fittings.



Properly soldered fittings last forever.


They can be dismantled and reused with no waste, too.

You know its funny. I am lousy at sweating copper fittings. Just don't
have the knack... or haven't done it enough more likely. One day I walked
into my son's bedroom and sitting on his work bench was a copper tube
sculpture all assembled with sweated fittings and tube. When I asked were
he got it he said he made it in shop class. I looked it over carefully with
a magnifying class and every joint had perfect wetting out. No gaps and no
beads. Just beautiful fillets like you get when its done right. Talk about
a proud dad. There is one thing he can definitely do better than me.


One trick is to use metal polish instead of emery cloth to clean the
pieces. The second is to use lots of liquid acid flux. The final trick
is to use plenty of heat so it doesn't spend too long in the 'plastic'
state and flows into the joint before all the flux burns away. I used
to pre tin some critical parts and wipe off the excess solder with a rag
before assembly. You don't want a 4" copper pipe with over 60 GPM to
leak, inside a $25,000 TV transmitter.


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