"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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The Wanderer wrote:
Yup, I'd second what Dave said. For a DIYer, I'd go for Yorkshire
fittings, and above all else, make sure you clean everything properly,
and apply flux. Yes, I know that's what he said as well.....

I always tend to feed a little plumbers' solder as well into the end of
the Yorkshire fitting.

Then there really is no point in using expensive Yorkshires. They're
approx 2.5 times the price in bulk.

If you practice with end feed, then take one apart, you'll find all the
pipe is tinned, so end feed capillary really does all that is needed.

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My background is in electronics soldering - learned my first (painful)
lessons as a kid soldering germanium transistors with a 50 watt half inch
iron ;--)

Perversely I use Yorkshire fittings AND extra solder :-)

I found the wazy "La-co" flux to be the most reliable - I even managed to
solder copper to lead once or twice.

I do as much of the assembly as possible on the bench - the trick being to
work out the logical sequence of joints so the next one is warming up and
the previous ones cooling down while you're doing the current one ....

I haven't had one of my joints fail yest .....

I'll probably give push-fit a go when I do my central heating ...

Jeremy