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Jon Elson[_3_] Jon Elson[_3_] is offline
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Default It's been a bad (plumbing) day at the office ... :-(

Arfa Daily wrote:



Then you shall have it sir ! Assuming of course, that I ever get to the
bottom of it. Problem is that now I've had to patch the pipe back up, it
becomes more and more difficult to put it back in, just to try it out. I
really need to figure a way to pressurise it assembled with 15 mm tails,
but out of the installation. If I can then get it watertight, at least I
know that when I put it back in, it will only be a case of a 'straight'
connection 15 mm to 15 mm, be it in solder or compression.

I built a device for testing pipes buried in the concrete basement floor
of our house, for the hydronic heating system. One unit is a piece of
rubber
stopper with a bolt through it and washers at each end. You clamp down
on the nut and it expands the rubber, sealing to the pipe ID. The other
unit is similar, but the bolt is hollow, and has small pipe threads. You
can attach pressure gauges, valves, air fittings, etc. as needed to
pressurize the pipe section.

Jon