[Shop-talk] Sweat joint leak

[John T. Blair]

At 09:23 PM 1/18/2009, John Mitchell wrote:

 >I have a pin hole drip in one of the solder joints in my half inch 
hot water line.
 >I shut off the hot water, opened some valves and drained the line 
out through a
 >spigot I have in the garage......


John,

I don't know why I didn't think of this before.  There is a new push coupling
called "shark bite".  As long as your leak isn't right at a bend you 
can cut out
the piece of pipe with the leak, and install one of the shark bite 
couplings at each
end and simply insert a piece of pipe into the gap.  They are a bit expensive,
about $5 each.  I installed them on my front and rear spickets when I had to
replace them.  No soldering!!!  Plus they can be undone with a special tool.

John

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