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Make sure to have valves before the sillcocks and I recommend adding a drain cock as well and be sure to open them before winter and make sure no water is left in the “frost-free" sillcocks or they'll freeze

An buy the Prier brand

https://www.supplyhouse.com/Prier

I was not a believer of shark bites when they first started on the market. I am probably the biggest none believer / cynic when it comes to new stuff being introduced in the trade. Believe-you-me, I have, and have seen many get burned by some new shlock that is "the next best thing". I also have not seen one blow off, blow up disintegrate , evaporate, etc… I have not witnessed said failures because they were most likely installed properly. So maybe for a DIY'r? It's a way out and a way in to get a job done. I certainly would not do a large job with them or as a contractor use them as a go-to fitting, but as much as I hate to admit it, they have there place.

can you take a few pictures? lead supply piping would be more like 100+ years old. I would re-pack the sillcock unless you're prepared to start replacing until you get to something that isn't lead. the way to connect to it would be to wipe a brass or copper pipe to it and connect that to your fixture but 100 year old lead will be brittle and have a ton of oxide that will make that very difficult.

are you sure it isn't steel or brass or copper tube?

how is the other end of the pipe connected?

you could maybe use a dresser type coupling but the od of lead pipe is usually pretty irregular.

A lead pressure pipe? That's been there for a while. As @mattmia2 said, it will be brittle. If it were mine I'd find out where it started at the other end and abandon the whole length of it. Repipe in PEX and a new sillcock.

I'm going to have to replace both my sillcocks which are over 60 years old and are leaking from the stems when I open them. I could probbaly try to scrape the paint off the compression nuts and tighten them, but this is my opportunity to replace them with frost free ones.

One of them is connected to copper pipe but the other one is connected to a lead pipe (black appearance, non-magnetic, when I scrape it it reveals a gray surface below)

The copper one I will replace with a propress ball valve and a frost free sillcock which I will attach with propress compression fittings.

What can I do with the lead one? Are there compression fittings that let me go from lead to copper/brass etc? The lead pipe has a 0.63" OD.

Thank you!