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Default Experiences with, opinions on "Shark Bite" pipe fittings?

On Nov 25, 6:18*pm, RicodJour wrote:
On Nov 25, 6:13*pm, Bob Villa wrote:

On Nov 25, 4:48*pm, Red Green wrote:


Guess I'll have to give Sharkbites a try some day. Seems the majority of
experiences from this group and external are positive. Problem is I'm to
frikkin cheap to try them. Besides, how can Sharkbites replace being a
real man with a torch and melting metel :-)


We have an Invacare whirlpool tub at work that had Sharkbite fittings
on the sanitizer system and had one leak after a year and a different
one fail at about 2+ years.
I wasn't impressed with them being used on a commercial unit.


Yeah, that's odd. *It wouldn't inspire confidence to see what's really
a retrofit fitting used that way.

R


From what I have read, it seems like any installation that has
vibrations would be suspect. Also, I wonder how often they are
assembled without thoroughly deburring the pipes they are joining.