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Re: The importance of getting soldering Flux off
Realiveplumber...I very respectfully semi-agree. I've never seen the "green creep" from a Pinhole leak, spread all over the pipe as it did here. If any part of those joints had a drip, at ANY POINT on the face of a clock ⏰, (1pm...4pm et al) the path of "green" and The Oyster-like white crust, I've never seen them spread vertically, horizontally like that. I really think it was cause and effect not the other way around. Chicken 🐔 or the egg 🥚...?? I did save the piece and when time allows we'll conduct a forensic post-mortem. Also, can you agree that leaving Flux on a copper pipe WILL turn it green and corrode it sans a leak?
Man oh man, Paul...Didn't mean to strike such a raw nerve with you guys...really. My intention was to provide an example of what damage I have personally seen from a particular product. Remember growing up:
"Learning from one's own mistakes is a very good lesson..(Tuition!) .Learning from SOMEONE else's mistakes BEFORE you do (FREE TUITION!!!) , is Golden."
I Just hoped to save the folks out there some huge headaches and costs, and no...I don't own stock in CP Speedies...or Taramet Solder...Last, Au contrare!!! Paul...I HIGHLIGHTED and showcased what happens when proper procedures are not followed with my "Old School," materials. I
Focused 20/20 Eyesight on it...not a "Blind eye." Peace ✌ ☮ 🕊 Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 America 🇺🇸 and All! Mad dog
Man oh man, Paul...Didn't mean to strike such a raw nerve with you guys...really. My intention was to provide an example of what damage I have personally seen from a particular product. Remember growing up:
"Learning from one's own mistakes is a very good lesson..(Tuition!) .Learning from SOMEONE else's mistakes BEFORE you do (FREE TUITION!!!) , is Golden."
I Just hoped to save the folks out there some huge headaches and costs, and no...I don't own stock in CP Speedies...or Taramet Solder...Last, Au contrare!!! Paul...I HIGHLIGHTED and showcased what happens when proper procedures are not followed with my "Old School," materials. I
Focused 20/20 Eyesight on it...not a "Blind eye." Peace ✌ ☮ 🕊 Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 America 🇺🇸 and All! Mad dog
Re: The importance of getting soldering Flux off
If that amount of corrosion was from flux not being wiped off, every joint in that house, and every soldered joint in America would eventually look like that. They don't. That joint had a SMALL leak, maybe not enough to drip, but enough to constantly stay wet.
Heat it up and take it apart without twisting it. it would be interesting to see the solder joint.
Heat it up and take it apart without twisting it. it would be interesting to see the solder joint.
Re: How to wire 1-stage A/C to run the fan on high speed?
Nest wire from Y1 to the control board Y1. No Y2 wire from the Nest at all. Then a jumper on the Y1 and Y2 inside the Bosch Furnace on the Fan timer circuit board
The fan takes it's signal from that board. So the Y2 and Y1 getting 24 volts from the zone controller will put the equipment into stage 2 after a small time delay.
I am assuming that you have a single stage AC unit, right?
The fan takes it's signal from that board. So the Y2 and Y1 getting 24 volts from the zone controller will put the equipment into stage 2 after a small time delay.
I am assuming that you have a single stage AC unit, right?
Re: GB 142 drawer won't open completely
The GB142 is a work horse . Sure I swap out a few heat exchanges , the first one was rough . Once you know it is best to split cut the unions and figuring on replacing the compressions its a good job .
Big Ed_4
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Re: Soldered copper lines between shutoff valve and bathroom faucet: how to do it?
FIP is female iron pipe thread, which is still a tapered pipe thread
MIP would be a male thread adapter, also a tapered pipe thread
where you typically find straight thread fittings are the Euro based websites
I work for an Italian brass manufacturer and we make thousands if transition fittings that we sell in 92 countries, so many, many special adapters
MIP would be a male thread adapter, also a tapered pipe thread
where you typically find straight thread fittings are the Euro based websites
I work for an Italian brass manufacturer and we make thousands if transition fittings that we sell in 92 countries, so many, many special adapters
Here us a 1/2” BSP (straight thread) adapter screwed onto a faucet. Notice that I have it screwed onto the faucet about 1”👌By hand.
That transitioned to a 3/4 G thread, the nut you see, which is also a BSP straight thread. A gasket or O ring seals that
Finally you see a 1/2” BSP male straight thread tailpiece
If you look close those male threads are serrated to help keep the hemp in the piece when it is screwed into a female fitting. Its called a hemp thread
You see hemp at plumbing and hardware stores in Europe, I bought some on one if my trips over there. although teflon sealing cord, similar to dental floss, is much easier to apply
Buderus boilers used to arrive in the US with a fist full of hemp. I suspect us was mainly rolled and smoked because not many knew what it was for
That transitioned to a 3/4 G thread, the nut you see, which is also a BSP straight thread. A gasket or O ring seals that
Finally you see a 1/2” BSP male straight thread tailpiece
If you look close those male threads are serrated to help keep the hemp in the piece when it is screwed into a female fitting. Its called a hemp thread
You see hemp at plumbing and hardware stores in Europe, I bought some on one if my trips over there. although teflon sealing cord, similar to dental floss, is much easier to apply
Buderus boilers used to arrive in the US with a fist full of hemp. I suspect us was mainly rolled and smoked because not many knew what it was for
hot_rod
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Re: Soldered copper lines between shutoff valve and bathroom faucet: how to do it?
@seized123 To delete a duplicate post on HeatingHelp: Use the edit function. Delete all the text, and replace it with the word "delete". @Erin Holohan Haskell will then know to delete the post.
WMno57
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Re: Pex - Is the extra cost worth it...
Exactly Hot Rod. His son James just gave me a private training session on a few items. Classy Folks. Mad Dog 🐕
Re: Pex - Is the extra cost worth it...
You haven't had Egg on your face until you had a rotten duck egg smashed in to it....1970s Hazing on the Farm 🚜. Most horrendous odor ever...worse than decomposing human and animals, Dental Cuspidor wastes, Rancid Commercial Grease traps...Water fountain wastes...Instant vomiting...Mad Dog 🐕 🤣
Re: Soldered copper lines between shutoff valve and bathroom faucet: how to do it?
Use the ball nose copper risers with the nut to connect to the valve. They have been used for years with no issues.
The other end of the riser you connect to a stop valve with 3/8 compression connector and the other end of the ball valve is sweat.
This is better than flex hoses as discussed in the other thread.
If you don't like the compression connector (there is no reason not to use them they are trouble free) you could use a sweat stop valve sweat on both ends with a 1/2" nominal copper x 3/8 OB sweat coupling and sweat that end of the riser
Personally, I would use copper riser with a sweat x compression stop valve.
The other end of the riser you connect to a stop valve with 3/8 compression connector and the other end of the ball valve is sweat.
This is better than flex hoses as discussed in the other thread.
If you don't like the compression connector (there is no reason not to use them they are trouble free) you could use a sweat stop valve sweat on both ends with a 1/2" nominal copper x 3/8 OB sweat coupling and sweat that end of the riser
Personally, I would use copper riser with a sweat x compression stop valve.
Re: Soldered copper lines between shutoff valve and bathroom faucet: how to do it?
Faucet shanks are straight threads. They are engineered for use with a straight thread nut as in the flex supply or faucet nut and ball end supply. Any advice to use a npt adapter on an nps fitting is ill advised. Like when people match up npt to radiator union valves. The ball end was invented to replace the packing joint that was once common place where a bald pipe was put into the faucet shank and sealed with a large amount of wicking pressed in by a brass washer under the faucet nut. A similar set up was used on water closets. This also can be accomplished by using the central part of the washer supplied with a fluid master toilet fill.
