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Default De-soldering copper pipe

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Tim+ wrote:
Harry Bloomfield, Esq. wrote:
Fredxx brought next idea :
It is always difficult to just the temperature where you're trying to get a
fitting apart. At a pinch I guess you could use a wet rag around a fitting to
make it stay put.


That has always worked for me - wet tissue, rag or whatever. It doesn't
need much evaporation to keep solder from melting.


I can now confirm that that did indeed work. Not as hard as I thought it
would be.


Tim


Just wondering why you'd change from something neat looking that never
leaks to something ugly that often does?

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