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Post by woodbine66 on May 21, 2021 13:28:10 GMT
This one may be on similar lines to the trigger action Chinky tools.
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Post by dickpuller on May 21, 2021 15:17:37 GMT
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Post by battle1066 on May 21, 2021 15:48:16 GMT
This one may be on similar lines to the trigger action Chinky tools.
In today's world - No naked flames on the job will kill the bottom one off before it starts. |
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Post by dickpuller on Jun 5, 2021 7:33:04 GMT
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Post by crowsfoot on Jun 5, 2021 8:04:07 GMT
There was a lot of negative press around these things in the mid 70s; some water authorities even banned them.
Weakening the pipe by expanding it was one of the reasons, difficult to clean the inside (pre-self cleaning flux) of the pipe was another one. The pipe is not made for this to be done to it.......I guess what goes around comes around and things go full circle and their now back in fashion.
My own negative experience of these drifts was a certain firm had used it on a gas supply.
After a couple of leaks we fixed we then found out that you could just pull the joints apart with a good tug.
It was before the days of SC flux though and the solder simply hadn't run inside the drifted out socket properly with the old fluxite being used.
The job was quite a ball-ache I remember, and we had to redo the supply on the whole street of houses where the firm had done the work.
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