John Rumm wrote:
Medallion Man wrote:

There wasn't any slack, the usable length of pipe was only about 140mm,
and 80mm of that was taken up with a valve.

I think the "slack" to which Ed refered was created by cutting the gap
for the fitting such that the pipe was actually a bit short of what you
would normally expect (i.e. when in place the pipe ends will not
protrude much past the olive into the fitting). The only time this would
not work would be if you could not get any latteral movement in the
pipes to allow you to get the fittting on the first pipe.


You have to be careful though: I recently had a compression elbow in
the kitchen where the olive had been (30 years ago) crimped over the end
of the pipe. Of course I couldn't reseal it, had to dremel off the
olive and solder as I couldn't cut the pipe back, with only 30mm
sticking out of the wall. TO make it more fun the next joint upstream
is in the cavity of the original outside wall.


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