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Early vs. late failure of sweat solder joints
I just re-ran some of the 1/2 and 3/4" lines in our basement. After
finishing, out of about 50 sweat solder joints that I did, 2 had small leaks that needed to be redone. System has been completely dry for the last 2 days now. Question: - Do most leaks do to bad solder joints show up immediately or do they continue to show up over time? Basically, since I did have a couple of bad solder joints I am concerned that maybe some others are marginal and will fail later (when I am not looking). Is that likely or does the initial pressurization (along with some shaking of the pipes that I did) pretty much show up the bad joints? Thanks |
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