[Shop-talk] Is this a shutoff?

[Steven Trovato]

What I'm reading seems to indicate that you shouldn't be soldering 
copper gas lines.  You have to braze with melting point over 1000 
degrees or use other "approved fittings."  Here's a forum discussing 
it:  http://www.inspectorsjournal.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14742

As for the pinhole problem, on initial installation I imagine one 
could charge and pressure test the whole system with air or nitrogen 
or something.  Then redoing something wouldn't be any more hazardous 
than doing it the first time.  Of course, once the system has had gas 
in it, it's a different story.

-Steve

At 10:45 AM 8/11/2015, Jeff Scarbrough wrote:
>I'm pondering how one would re-solder a pinhole leak in a copper gas
>pipe system.  I can't think of a way that doesn't involve the solderer
>becoming an involuntary astronaut.