copper plumbing

And we exchanged it for lead. Then you guys discovered beer and havent bothered anyone ever since.

Gunner

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Chuckle, hell! Almost spewed Dr. Pepper on the monitor.

michael

Yes.

In fact you can't buy solder that has lead in it for house pluming.

It has high tin content. Have some - don't know if the label still exists.

This house is 16 years old and it was built with that kind of solder.

Martin

Half inch copper pipe can fit 5/8" flair fittings, 3/4" pipe fits

7/8" fittings. Annealing the pipe helps the flair not split. Antisieze on the threads allows take-apart years later. A high, high quality flair tool helps alot. Costly fittings, and don't forget to place the flairnut before flairing.

Tom

Do you flare your pipe with flair? :^)

Tim

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Nobody has mentioned it yet, but there does exist threaded copper pipe.

Both the house that I rented in Winchester MA and the one I owned in Lowell MA had threaded copper.

Yes, this is a somewhat rare form of pipe, but I had two houses full of the stuff. It was joined with solid cast copper fittings with NPT threads.

No one mentioned it because in today's market, I'm not sure even Bill Gates would have enough money to go that route. .

Harold

Sure it wasn't brass? That was a common form of water piping for houses built in the 30s.

Jim

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If it was brass, it was the type without zinc.

I have seen plenty of brass pipe. This stuff was/is solid c> >

Are you sure it was not a copper pipe with a male pipe adaptor sweat on?

Also refrigerant and A/C pipe ca and does have up to 300# psi and some new refrigerant runs at over 400#. That is why you use sil-fos 15% silver on the copper to copper. Copper to brass silver solder 40% silver And as always nitrogen at 2psi must repeat M U S T be flowing thru the system. If you have an a/c system being repaired for a leak or new system being installed make dam sure nitrogen is purged thru the system And if you see some one repairing your system with out nitrogen hooked up then ask them to stop and do it right and keep the inside of the system clean .

Just to add on here, get the stuff with a few percent of silver in it, it flows MUCH nicer than the straight tin-antimony variety. And don't be stingy with the flux.

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