10 MISTAKES Beginners Make When Soldering For The First Time (Beginner's Guide) | GOT2LEARN
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- Here are 10 important things to know when soldering for the first time that won't get you punished by the plumbing gods, don't go without watching, you might regret it!
- How to solder with water in pipes: • Soldering Copper Pipes...
- Repairing a leaky copper joint: • 10 MISTAKES Beginners ...
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Start - 0:00
1) Extinguisher - 0:16
2) Safety goggles - 0:56
3) Making sure the pipe/fitting are 100% clean - 1:32
4) Good flux brushes - 2:28
5) Don't touch the joint! - 3:18
6) Water in pipes - 3:57
7) Which part to heat - 4:30
8) Which part of the flame to use - 5:17
9) Wiping off any extra flux - 6:00
10) Inspecting your joints - 6:32
ending - 7:10
DISCLAIMER: Got2Learn is NOT responsible for any damage done to a property of which the plumbing wasn't done by a professional, I do not recommend doing your own plumbing if you are unsure about what you are doing, always hire a LICENSED contractor when doing any type of plumbing so you can be covered by insurances if something does happen, these videos are for entertainment purposes only!
I am in my sixties now.
When I was younger than ten years old I remember my dad letting me help him fix things around the house.
He was a "week-end" warrior, but pretty good at it.
He did carpentry, plumbing, electrical, concrete, painting....
For plumbing he would let me clean the copper fittings. We used steel wool for the outside and a brush like the one in this video for the inside. He did instruct me not to touch the parts I cleaned as to not get the oil from my skin on them.
He would let me watch as he assembled the parts and then soldering them together, explaining what he was doing and why. I remember him telling me to let the pipe melt the solder.
My dad passed away when I was twelve... but, as a teen-ager I was able to continue to "fix" things around the house for my mom. Much to my guy friends amazement.
I did plumbing on my own with confidence, replaced a gas water heater, ran electrical wires and installed sockets, lights, and switches where non had existed before, carpentry work, laid ceramic tiles, did drywall.... and all without going to any school to learn these trades. I was a self taught "weekend warrior".
As a side note here. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I bought my first hand held, power operated, circular saw. It was so much easier and the end product was so much more professional looking then cutting the wood with a hand saw. I even invited my friends over and demonstrated it by just cutting of a slice of a 2 x 4. They all looked on in amazement and picked up and closely examined the cut piece.
Since then I've purchased a 12" miter saw and 10" table saw and I can't remember the last time I used a hand saw. I still keep them around but they've all rusted over time. Some of those same saws are the same ones my father used. They my even still have some of his "hand oil" or finger prints on them somewhere.
you should clean the hand saws and put paste wax on them to stop rust
@@wayneherl1442 Thanks, maybe I'll do that.
Well your dad was a good dad! He did a great job to prepare you so well at such an early age! What a nice story! May he be upstairs looking down and smiling...
Thanks your giving us help like your Dad did for you. Great gift he gave you.
Better change the title : Leave 'beginner's out. I thought I was not a beginner at retirement age. You proved me wrong ;-) THANKS !!
I'm sure I've said it before (at my stAge I forget a lot), but I'll risk saying it again: You ROCK! Very clear narration, nicely paced out talk (not too slow, not too fast), excellent animations, terrific demonstrations, bonus explanations, great content! Thank you for the education and the encouragement!
Thanks a million Larry!! 🔥🔥🔥
What was not mentioned was that you cannot have an "air locked" area in your soldering, make sure air pressure can escape somewhere in the pipeline you are soldering as trapped heated air will want to push your wet solder out of the joint while your soldering if it has no where else to go
this is a great point
What I like about your video is you concentrate on cleaning the copper. I like the abrasive rolls made for plumbing but the other stuff works too. At one time I thought I needed to be very careful or it would leak. Then I experimented with some old fittings I got at a garage sale. I found that it was easy to make an ugly joint but it was almost impossible to make a leaky joint if everything was clean. If you clean the pipe and fittings use flux and get the pipe hot enough to melt the solder it won't leak. It seems to work even if you don't direct the flame in the right place or dump way too much solder in the joint. I tried every wrong way I could think of. I even just held the torch on one side until the back heated up. It looked terrible but didn't leak. In short get the copper clean use flux and it will probably work no matter how inexperienced you are. Still if it's for a real job you should be careful to make it look presentable.
even fot old folks... your reminder video refreshes this 72 year old brain........thanks 😊
Awesome, love hearing this! 😊
Wow! I don’t recall ever seeing a DIY video that I actually enjoyed watching from an entertainment perspective. Very well done good sir.
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Totally agree I feel partly trained now thanks
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Another good thing to have nearby is a one or two gallon pump spray bottle filled with water. It’s a cheap water fire extinguisher, just don’t forget to pump it BEFORE you start soldering . It works great in confined spaces where you might not be able to get the nozzle of a powder extinguisher.
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You can also use it to spray the surrounding wood or any other flammable material to reduce risk of starting a fire.
Another excellent video. I appreciate that you get right down to business, stay on point, and don’t add any “cutesy” stuff or stupid music.
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Reminds me of my appy days as an HVAC tech. My boss drilled every point you made into our minds daily for months. It's all instinctive now, made us great installers.
Very Good. Easy to understand. Now I know how far in the solder should flow.
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I'm not going to mention which ship ( think very big) ..but we working working on scaffolding under a overhang when the pipefitter took off running... more like crabbing the heck out of there. We had only one ladder to reach the exit and three us needed to use it. Fire started as he was heating a pipe and the insulation ( rubber type material ) caught fire. Later it was determined it was the glue fumes trapped between the foam and painted steel. Point being know what is in your area, as to gases, fumes, or anything which might take a liking to the flames.
Maybe a different glue, as some need alcohol to dry faster, something to avoid if possible...?😁
Like the superglue on the acid brush idea.👍✌️🖖🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😁
Love it :)
+1 on the great idea about superglue on flux brushes. I always kept some clean toothpicks in my toolbox to pick the loose flux brush hairs out of the flux before soldering. Now I am going to try this trick and keep the toothpicks in the kitchen!
I click like on your videos as soon as they start because I know I will always learn something. Thanks and keep them coming!
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I watched a plumber replace the tank in my parent's garage once and he had a dripping inlet pipe. He asked for a couple of slices of white bread, which I ran and grabbed for him. He then stuffed bread into the dripping pipe to retard the water flow just long enough to get the solder completed on that joint. He explained that the bread would then just go into the take where it would break down and then flow out and no one would ever see it. He only used the white part and took off the crusts and ate when he didn't use.
Yup, it works!!!
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Does it work with whole wheat bread or pumpernickel too? Probably doesn’t work with pita bread…
@@azul8811 only the white stuff
Bread is great. I've used it to push out pilot bearings on car engines as well. Once again, no crust !!
Lmao I remember back when I first started my plumbing career as an apprentice I was looking up plumbing videos on how to learn different stuff. I remember when I first subscribed and you had like 1k subscribers. Now it's been 4 years and I'm a Journeyman now and your channel has blown up.
Wow that is so cool man, we grew toghether 🙏🙏🙏
LOL, when I started to learn this, internet wasn't around yet, or at least not for the general public.
Your videos are the best. I've learned things that help me every day in my work. Thank you!
Happy to hear that!!!!!!
Love your videos especially the cut away graphics. I’ve made every one of these mistakes at least one. GLOVES. Wear gloves. At some point you will grab a hot part. I’m referring to us ‘handy men’. Also think ahead to where you will place a torch that is still lit. When you are in an awkward position is not the time to figure it out.
Boy, I was an avionics tech in the Air Force. In 1976 I had my training. My soldering class was forty hours. I was NASA certified. Conducted by NASA. It was most difficult to sweat the fittings for the waveguides. ;)
That's so cool, the plumbing on those ships looks so fascinating!
Well...my first question is "where were you 60 years ago". I suspect there have been some problems with soldering I did back in those days. Excellent video by the way. Those safety tips were right on the money. I come from a family of do it your selfers so projects like this were always common place. UA-cam makes it a lot easier and you can gain the experience of others who know what they are doing. Thanks.
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Excellent tutorial and production. Subscribed!
Yeyyy ,thanks!!
Excellent video on pipe soldering
Thanks 👍
This is just such an excellent example of a tutorial video about plumbing tasks. Well thought out, planned, executed, easy to understand. I've done tutorial videos for my team, your's is far superior. Nice work. Your video will become my own company's in-house video (replacing my own!) to train our own people on how to sweat copper tubing. Many thanks and keep up the great work.
Comment of the day, thank you soooo much!!!
How nice of you! You are another exemplar! Well done!
I always enjoy watching your videos!
Glad you like them!!!
Two other things. Don't get the fitting so hot, that the solder boils out.
Don't put water on joint to cool it down too quickly, as the solder will
contract and cause a leak.
Nice advice I always have a spray water bottle handy (the nice ones that spray a strong stream) Use flux brushes from the welding stores don’t shed
That's a good idea!
Great hack about cutting the handle off the brush and using it in a drill, but ONLY operate the drill in the direction the handle is wound. Don't ask me how I know this.
Dude, I learn SO MUCH from you, glad to see your channel growing!
Yes!!! Thank you so much man!!!
And don't wear gloves. Had a guy get three broken fingers when the glove got wound up in the brush
@@josephbianchino2204 LOL truth on that, my boss did the same thing. I've gotten in the habit of wearing latex gloves these last few years, and have had them ripped off my hands several times now. OUCH!
Your videos are excellent and I've enjoyed watching them. Since this is mistakes, I'd like to add a tip without which you can end with mistakes. I just replaced my gas boiler and new 1-1/4 copper for the water side. The zone valves are fed by a trident (pitchfork) like construction of elbows and a tee. I had a bugger of a time (just took too much heat) soldering the new pipe in place which should have been simple. End result was a slow, 4 per minute drip. While repairing it this morning, I found the real problem. While I shutoff both ends of the sections I was working on, the right hand end was on SMALLER diameter pipe. So yeah, it drained but left about 1/8" of water in the pipe I was working on. So I drained it by removing the expansion tank on the large pipe, dried it out, cleaned the old and new fittings, fluxed and ended up with excellent, leak free joints.
Good video. I self taught myself but your video is very helpful.
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I like the vacuum cleaner to an open faucet trick!
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Good video you can always learn from another perspective
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Incredible tutorial, thank you. If only I had this 40 years ago. I never cleaned my flux afterwards. Another tip if you solder close to other fittings. I always cover the adjacent fitting then with a wet rag, preventing then that from getting loose if I solder close by.
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Excellent tip re: keeping adjacent fittings cool when soldering nearby!
Great video! However I work for a drywall company so we kinda like it when people don't solder correctly it makes us money! We have made thousands off improperly installed shark bites too.
Your videos are AMAZING!! SO much knowledge! THANK YOU
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Very good explanations
Supergluing the brush is a stroke of genius!
Sure is man, don't forget to like and share 🍻
Recent homeowner here and I loved this video. Thank you! gonna be extremely helpful for me someday
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This has me second guessing every joint I’ve soldered. Lol. But more confident for the next ones
I knew some of this. But i also learned some. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!!!
I just found your channel! So cool. I sit behind a desk at work so I went to Home Depot & got some copper pipe, fittings, sharkbites etc & had a ball in the garage! I'm ready for a water leak!!
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Very informative! Thank you!
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The best trick I found for keeping water from dripping into your joint while you're trying to solder it is to shove a piece of bread in the pipe just make sure once you turn the water back on that you turn on something with a large opening like a tub or outside spicket
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plain bread or toasted with jam....
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Of course you can use silicone or construction foam as well
My friend helped me install my dishwasher. Decided to run about 8' of 1/2" copper tubing from basement to disheasher. Friend told me what a great job he does soldering. Yep no leaks but soldered the gate valve so it would not close. Guess he thought a halve of solder needed to solder a 1/2" valve.
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Tried my best at my first attempt solder job to fix a leak.
Called a plumber month later when pipe leaked.
I didnt follow some of the finer tricks to this art. I will learn
Not trying to argue with you or anything here. I’ve been plumbing for 8 years now. I’m a licensed plumber in Michigan. But usually when I have a joint that didn’t take to the back side of the fitting, I usually apply some more flux, heat it up, reapply heat and solder and I’ve never had any leaks that way. Completely dismantling the fitting from the pipe usually never has to happen unless there’s an issue with water in the pipe. Not saying your way is wrong or bad. I just have always reapplied the same practices to the back of the fitting. Thank you for posting these videos though. I always watch them even if it’s something I know about. There’s always great information for anyone of any skill level in your videos!
I was thought this way, your way probably works though, I just prefer redoing it and making sure it's sound. thanks for the nice comment man!!!
@@Got2Learn actually... you taught me to reapply flux and fix it in place! ua-cam.com/video/JyVbjDsric4/v-deo.html
It'll work, but it's better to take it apart to make sure.
Good video. I haven't soldered enough to know about flux in the 👁️, so that's my takeaway. Thanks.
Better like that! 👍
Very helpful. Thank you sir.
Most welcome 🙏
Thank you for this video. My problem with soldering is that when it gets sucked in the joint real fast and clean I would always second guess myself if enough solder went in. Over time I have gained alot of confidence in my plumbing skills. Thank you again my friend.
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Very nice job sir, well presented
Thank you so much!!!
Great Video! This is not just a beginner's tutorial. Those of us who are self-taught-picking up skills from your father, friends, tradespeople. It's easy to come up short in doing things the proper way. We always seemed to get by. But just getting by, and doing mediocre work is not doing anyone any favors. Doing it right doesn't take any more time. It usually is faster.
Thanks for taking the time in preparing well-organized videos that addressing all the issues. Fine-tuning skills and continuing education keep a person relevant and valued.
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I thought you were still lost in the desert?
Fantastic video,man. I have been soldering and brazing for a long time,but this is an extremely informative video. Thanks for your time.
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Don't skip the safety people. These are the best tips on soldering.
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Very good explanation.
Glad you liked it!!
I have been soldering copper for years, different sizes and applications. pro tech in HVAC for yrs, If you follow the simple instructions in this video you will succeed, getting use to it and these steps become habbit and you never fail.practice makes perfection, great video.
Thanks for that Shade, much appreciated!
@@Got2Learn No problem. Only the Truth Buddy. Good stuff and thank you for making it.well done.
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I got good idea on how to solder a copper tubing. Thank you Got2Learn.
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Not sure what's better, your plumbing skills or your video production skills. Great video as always. I am a newbie to plumbing, but your videos gave me the skills and confidence to do a significant plumbing job in my basement and kitchen. Well done.
I'll let you decide that part hehe, thank you so much and happy to have helped Greg, have a great day!
I couldn't agree more! Thanks for the confidence G2L!
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Wow, this is an excellent video,now I can tell what I did wrong when I tried to solder pipes,it took me 2 days to solder on pipe
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Excellent video! Thanks from Texas.
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" which part of the torch flame is the hottest part?, was my question.
Thanks for the answer before I even had time to ask. ---Great upload. ---
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Thank you very good explaining
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Nice video, I learned a few things, well done
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The super glue on those brushes is a great idea, I use those kind of brushes with anti-seize and brake caliber lubricant and those darn bristles are always falling out
I love it too hehe, thanks!
Thank You so much for your wonderful tutorials. I've learned so much that I have plumbed my new bathroom suite in with overhead thermostatic shower and bath. All thanks to you. Keep up your wonderful work. Thanks again.
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An overhead bath sounds a bit sketchy, tbh.
Yeah, of course I'm jesting. We all know what you mean...
Excellent video, lots of good tips even for experienced plumbers
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Great info, thanks to you I have improved my works at home
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Very clear instructions - looking forward to putting learnings to use !! Thanks !!
Glad it was helpful Phil, thank you so much!
Just casually blowing thru videos on your channel lol. Love this. My son loves this stuff.
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These are great skills to share and experience with your children. It's part of your legacy that they will always remember.
Very nice, I learned not to touch the cleaned surfaces and where to properly heat the adjoining piece. Thanks!
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Excellent. Thank You
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I can sweat copper now, but I think I made every mistake learning that you have talked about.😊
That's fine 🙂
Yup fingers I knew about but never considered it enough great tip
Just for the record I didn't learn jack squat, but you are absolutely correct on your analogy
Good to hear!
Thank you. Great tips. Helped me with my project. No leaks and good looking joints.
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love it, i'm always interested in learning the tricks of the trade
More to come!
Dude this has been an epidbme. I spent thirty years dripping soldier. Thanks
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Thanks for the excellent tips and refresher.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, your tips are very helpful
You are welcome 🙏
Excellent Video. Very clear and Informative to a Homeowner like me about to embark on a Plumbing Project
Thank you so much for your kind words 🙏
super gluing the flux brush - nice!
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A truly brilliant video. Thank you so much.
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*SOLID ADVICE...WELL DONE!!*
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I like the drill idea with the brush in the drill and gluing the bristles. When I strip copper wire prior to soldering I twist the strands together with the bit of displaced insulation rather than use my fingers.
I found out about flux attacking copper the hard way - I loosely assembled some pipe work, cleaned and fluxed it, but my blowlamp wouldn't light. By the time I'd fixed it all the copper had gone green and I had to start again!
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Amazing. Thanks.
Great concise Video, Learned something. Thanks for making it.
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That was a great video! Clear and concise! And all the tips, top notch!
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Yay solder tips.!
To less heat, use acetylene and oxygen to get the fire really going
Your videos are simply excellent.
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Excellent video, thanks
Best video I have ever seen on soldering! Thanks!
Thank u so muchhh!!!
Awesome tips. Thank you for posting 🙏 ❤️
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Excellent video!
Thank you! Cheers!!!
Great solid advice with safety first...DIY guy..no lies..
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An old timers trick is to stuff bread from lunch box up pipe,it temp stops water travel,and washes out easy.
Years ago worked at a candy plant. Guys would use an inflatable bag around 3" chocolate lines and run freon thru it and let it escape in the atmosphere which sure can no longer do. As long as.pump was turned off the chocolate would harden fast and they could cut or open the 3" pipe. Milk chocolate turns solid at 90 degrees F. Bread jammed a few inches into copper tubing works great. Years ago on a hot Saturday afternoon two young guys could not sweat in a 3" copper elbow due to water dripping into tubing even with 2 old valves closed off. Old timer told them to use a 3" T fitting and to solder in a short piece of copper tubing to a female adapter. They soldered this in then installed a 3" plug into female adapter.
I 've put Oatey #5 flux on semi uncleaned pipe and fittings and they soldered right up with no leaks. Bad valves in municipal meter boxes are few and far between where I live. It's a shame valves inside houses and other buildings can't be of the same quality. Retired from 40 years in plumbing.
Very instructive. Cleanliness is still next to Godliness it seems. is the non-pronunciation of the 'L' in solder a local dialect? In all my years, I have never heard this done before.
Excellent video, useful tips!!
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You know your stuff! Great presentation. I can validate your movie 100%.
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Very nice video. But you forgot most important thing - do not overheat joints. When solder start melting immediately remove torch.
I had service call every week in hight rise building for blowing pipes in kitchens . Evidently was made this part building by one plumber who overheated joints after many years started blowing out.
Excellent video.
Thank you very much!
Awesome Video! Thanks for the tips!
Glad it was helpful! Have a great day JR!