Copper tube prep for ProPress

Jeff Elston

LOL LOL

Wheres Ken Ha Ha HA

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MIke_Jonas

Tube prep

I have a job coming up to use my new ProPress. I also have a Ridgid prep machine coming in next week, a model 122, I think. Anyway, what do you use to prep the tubing end for the ProPress fitting? Is the reamer on the 122 enough, for the inside only? Or do you run some scothbrite over the end? Is the wire brush on the 122 for the outside of the tube too much? I don't want any habits from years os solder/brazing to cause me problems now.

Timco

What you do is get yourself some glycol...JUST KIDDING!!! Relax!

Tim

Floyd_46

Your on the right track...

You will have a new cutter wheel so the outside will just need to be shined up with the wire wheel on the 122. No it is not that agressive that it will cause problems. Yes ream the inside a bit. The main thing I watch for is a burr or roll up on the outside of the pipe, you know the kind that a bad cutter whell causes. In the past with soldering the clearance was so tight that the pipe wouldn't fit in...with the PP you can still jam it in there but you will slice the o-ring, causing problems. It is very important to keep your cutter in good shape.
The first time you use the thing you may not like it, but after a while it will grow on you and you'll wonder how you ever did without it. You will need to plan ahead in some cases to get things in tight spots crimped. Somethings you can crimp before actually placing them where they go....
Welcome to a whole new ay of plumbing...

Ken_40

Damn Chinese toothpaste...

Had glycol in it.

I've been sick as a dog and leaking from every joint for hours..

You rang????

And Floyd? If that's your PP job, think about how nice an already "best-I-ever-saw" job would have looked, without all those funky, bumpy dorky looking fittings detracting from the knock-dead gorgeous work you display (;-o)

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Tim Doran_4

Nice work Floyd

Nice looking work Floyd. I think the PP fittings look just fine. We now have three tools and wouldn't think of doing things any other way. We just did two jobs with three 399 Munchkins and two SSU 119's on each on. All three inch mains. I'll have to get some pictures. The PP really made the jobs go smoothly.

Tim D.

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