aj
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Post by aj on Nov 9, 2023 15:11:30 GMT
so a guy on youtube using a brazing soldering/brazing rod to fix a pin hole. what do you guys think? is it a good idea? is it a permanent fix? can it be used on potable water?
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Post by battle1066 on Nov 9, 2023 17:42:53 GMT
Like to see him do that rammed in a tight corners and steam blowing back through the pin hole.
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Post by crowsfoot on Nov 9, 2023 19:21:36 GMT
Nice to have a plumbing question aj  . I would say that it's a DIY fix and I don't think a plumber would ever fix it this way, having said that it should be a permanent fix, it's just not conventional. An apprentice was once wiring up an immersion heater to a new cylinder and unbeknown to him the live had become live but luckily for him he then dropped the live wire onto the cylinder which promptly melted a small circular hole in the top of the new cylinder. We took the new cylinder back to the yard and brazed the hole up and then re-installed it. Deciding to keep (what would be now called a "near miss" by H&S) what had happened quite from the gaffer. |
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Post by DIYDafty on Nov 9, 2023 20:09:07 GMT
Don't you need oxyacetylene for brazing?
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Post by tomplum on Nov 9, 2023 21:36:49 GMT
for a diyer dafty, a simple push fit or compression slide joint would be far easier like this  |
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Post by dickpuller on Nov 19, 2023 7:17:28 GMT
Don't you need oxyacetylene for brazing? No Dafty, a MAPP Gas torch will do the trick. We used these Rods all the time when copper was King. We’d get them from the Fridge Engineers, that’s what they use. Rothenberger Rods are readily available, I’ll post up a link if I can be arsed👍👍 You’d always rip out Pin Hole copper pipe, if it goes once it’ll go again. Get rid of the problem!! |
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