you HAVE to see this copper repair job

Mike T., Swampeast MO

Certainly creative and it looks quite permanent. In a real pinch it does look better than sheet rubber and clamps...

ScottMP

The guys

found this in a wall when we opened it up to repair a soil pipe leak. That leak was a rubber clamp split and then put on like bandaid, BUT THIS ONE is ... creative ??

It is copper wire wrapped around the tubing and then soldered...

Scott

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SVDW

somebody hire that guy

We in the wholesale business encourage this kind of thing as we can sell lots more solder!

kevin coppinger_4

desperate people....

do desperate things....kpc

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Ken_8

I think that

may have been silver soldered in NYC!

It's code dontchya know...

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Steamhead (in transit)

But it looks like that one held

I'll have to remember it, in case I have an emergency and no couplings..... ;-)

Mark Hunt

Shut up Scott


It was late and I was tired!

I tried that spray on leak stop, but I left it in my truck when it was cold and it froze.

I was outta' hose clamps(lots of breaks that week).

Not enough room to get a good wrap of duct tape on it.

And Ken is right. That is silver solder. It IS up to code so nyah!

Geeze. What a tough room!

Mark H

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Robert O'Connor_12

I love it!

Anyone can do it with tools and material. What makes the mechanic is the one that can still get the job done without them. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. This ranks right up there with the best posted pic ever.

Robert O'Connor/NJ

ed wallace

pipe repair

yrs ago when i took a refrigeration course at a tech hi school the plumbing teachers showed that trick and explained it was not a permanete fix

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Mark Hunt

Thanks Robert


Scott was being very insensitive.

Glad to see someone appreciated the fact that I thought "outside the box" and got the job done.

It is up to code too!

Mark H

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Paul Rohrs

The Big Picture....

I think he was trying to make a transformer with all of those coils. Where was he bringing in line voltage?

State of the art in my opinion, use the copper water line to transport water and voltage. Brilliant!

Regards,

PR



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leo g_13

That is the saddest thing that I've seen

you only having one week booked for vacation! ~

Leo G

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Mark Hunt

Thanks Paul


That was my other reason for doing that.

Scott needs to attend sensitivity classes AND basic wiring classes.

Mark H

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Tony_23

Maybe...

It's a homemade water de-ionizer ?

ScottMP

Yes thats it Tony

The magnets are underneath the coils

It is truly an amazing repair. I think it was used as a coupling.

Oh and Mark ? Sensitivity training ... I can't belive you just said that ... My mother was right about you boo hoo hoo.

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Mark Hunt

In that case


NEENER NEENER NEENER!!!

Mark H

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hr

That WAS

a micro coil heat exchanger to pull extra heat from that hot water line..

Until SOMEBODY removed it

hot rod

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ScottMP

THATS WHY

theve been complaining about no hot water !

A little nonsence now and then ... Is cherished by the wisest men.

You guys have a Great Day.

Scott

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Carl PE

umm.. guys..

That has been done many times as a grounding detail. Wrap a #10 or 12 around the water line coming in, and hit it with the torch.

Saves on those expensive ground clamps.

I don't think you really need quite so many turns, though..

Darin Cook_3

C'Mon Milne

We know you tried to pull that one off. Chris said he didn't want to do it but you made him. Very Creative.






Darin

Eugene Silberstein 3

Vacation

Does the quality (or lack thereof) of the solder joint have anything to do with the fact that the calendar on which the solder joint is resting is showing "vacation"? When we are on vacation, do we think about new and inmproved ways to join two sections of pipe?

I guess I should be telling my students that this is not the right way to do things, right? (snicker)