Originally Posted by Brian Parker
Lol. Bread to keep the pipes from banging.
Gotta remember that one
Originally Posted by Brian Parker
Lol. Bread to keep the pipes from banging.
Gotta remember that one
This may be a good alternative:
http://www.plumbingsupply.com/waters...soldering.html
Bob
I've restored several ancient homes. The damn plumbing is NEVER layed in correctly and the valves always leak. The result is that when I have to work existing lines there is always a trickle.
I have used those melting blisters as well as the flexible rof on a plug. They are great when you can get 'em in. When I can't I heat a long section of pipe upstream with a torch to steam off the water and work fast.
If you can use Acetlyne or MAPP with a boosted oxygen flow it'll happen faster.
Cliff where were you able to find those "melting blisters" at?
I push a couple of feet of 1/4" clear plastic tubing into the end of the copper pipe and syphon out the water until it stops, then make the joint quickly. I've never had to resort to wax or bread plugs yet - I don't like the idea of the potential clogging this could lead to.
Dave F.
Had a situation yesterday where the water would not completely cut off. Knew about the old bread plug but the leak was such that it would not block it off. Read your post about blowing the line out and got my little compressor, opened the bath tub valve and was able to get it dry enough to sweat the fitting off, blew again and got the extension on and one more time for putting the cap on.
It was an interesting dance but worked like a charm.
Thanks again.
My dad was a plumber and I used to help him when I was a kid.
There are 2 ways he did it, one was to blow the line out like has been stated and the other was with dry ice.
Put the dry ice the pipe and tape it on, wait a few min. and you are ready to go.
I have seen him use the dry ice on pipes where the water was not even shut off.
There is glue on the market that says it will work on wet pipes. Never had occasion to use it
Nice thing about Shark Bites. It doesn't matter if there's drips.