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Post by cluelesskarl on Jul 29, 2019 21:53:50 GMT
Yet more questions... Is it worth getting a pressure tester? I've seen a few Rothenburgers going cheap, and apart from being anal and wanting to get everything right, I do like acquiring a tool.  |
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Post by tomplum on Jul 30, 2019 7:40:30 GMT
I would say yes, they are a great anxiety lowering device, If you're not too confident about you joints, a tester will keep your blood pressure down, I've been in situations when, You turn on the water and all seems well, then you see a drip, and you can here a hiss but can't find where it is, you don't know where to go first, then someone shouts " PLUMBER  " oh the joys of plumbing |
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Post by battle1066 on Jul 30, 2019 17:58:31 GMT
Yet more questions... Is it worth getting a pressure tester? I've seen a few Rothenburgers going cheap, and apart from being anal and wanting to get everything right, I do like acquiring a tool. Somewhere in the plumbing tips Dick made a device out of a car valve and iso valve if I remember correctly - you just use that with a bicycle pump and cheap Chinese gauge off eBay and your good to go for next to nothing. |
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Post by cluelesskarl on Jul 30, 2019 19:35:28 GMT
Thanks tom, I'll get one! I'd happily go with your/Dicks way Battle, but I have a tendency to get carried away with building things... Best I don't get my old dive compressor out and hook it up!  I'll bother you all how to use it properly when I get it. At the moment, I'm thinking of capping each run and testing....   |
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Post by battle1066 on Jul 30, 2019 19:56:17 GMT
Thanks tom, I'll get one! I'd happily go with your/Dicks way Battle, but I have a tendency to get carried away with building things... Best I don't get my old dive compressor out and hook it up!  I'll bother you all how to use it properly when I get it. At the moment, I'm thinking of capping each run and testing....   If you've got the time and it gives you piece of mind then there's nothing wrong in your approach - enjoy your project. |
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Post by cluelesskarl on Jul 30, 2019 20:20:55 GMT
Thanks Battle! I am rather warming to it. |
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Post by DIYDafty on Jul 31, 2019 14:00:04 GMT
I use a cheap air tester but I'm never a hundred percent sure as it always slow leaks. I figure/hope that I'd at least hear a leak and can spray joints Im particularly worried about.
On day I'll get around to testing the tester or maybe buying something better. Have you got a link to the one you've bought or thinking of buying?
Edit I did read somewhere the only sure test is to wet test it but not sure how helpful that would be (let alone the pain or cost of doing it)
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Post by cluelesskarl on Jul 31, 2019 18:47:09 GMT
Hi Dafty, just eBay surfing at mo. I was wondering about a wet test too, also capping/uncapping the pipes. Maybe one rad and run at a time? Could fill the rad, pressurise, drain and move on? Would help with flushing the system. |
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" oh the joys of plumbing 
