[Shop-talk] Sweat joint leak
John T. Blair
jblair1948 at cox.net
Mon Jan 19 14:32:11 MST 2009
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
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair1948 at cox.net
Va. Beach, Va
Phone: (757) 495-8229
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