As an old timer, it’s nice to see you young kids break out the torch. Personally I would never press soft copper for the simple fact that it’s not going to be perfectly round and straight . I couldn’t see it very well but looked like the copper was touching the galvanized. On the other end where they crossed, when you see that again, put a few wraps of electrical tape around the copper.
By lightly crimping to hold a vertical or aligned joint you are intentionally distorting the roundness. That’s what makes it hold. The solder then fills in micro-gap created. If you have a helper like he did, the helper could have held the bottom of the fitting with a screwdriver and no crimping needed. When working alone, lightly crimping is an excellent tool to use.
Great job 👍👍👍👍 As always.
Props to the guy who stopped the leak. I'm gonna throw away my emergency pipe clamps and replace them with little chunks of wood. That's the new meta.
LOL! 👉🏼
Gotta love that crawl space
Nice! Great work in tough conditions.
Nice job!
Love your work brother
"BITD" the old timers would also slightly rotate the ftg you squeezed, thxs for sharing...
As an old timer, it’s nice to see you young kids break out the torch. Personally I would never press soft copper for the simple fact that it’s not going to be perfectly round and straight .
I couldn’t see it very well but looked like the copper was touching the galvanized. On the other end where they crossed, when you see that again, put a few wraps of electrical tape around the copper.
By lightly crimping to hold a vertical or aligned joint you are intentionally distorting the roundness. That’s what makes it hold. The solder then fills in micro-gap created. If you have a helper like he did, the helper could have held the bottom of the fitting with a screwdriver and no crimping needed. When working alone, lightly crimping is an excellent tool to use.
That piece of wood for a stop leak is a different type of hackery, locals use a random pice of rubber and hose clamp and call it good.
Another interesting and successful repair. Do rats really eat that Aqua Pex? All the best dudes
yeah if it sits on the ground but up in the air like that not so much
@@pershingplumbing9007 Thanks dude! All the best!
Should of cut and gotten rid of the that coupling
The rats are going to eat that stuff good job man, she’s a crusty one mama😂
Bro there was plenty of room for copper
@charliegodinez9655 upies is so much easier tho and its 4 feet off the ground so not worried about rats