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Hold Tight and welcome to todays plumberparts.co.uk video, I've dug deep today
because i've got Man flu I don't know if you can hear, my nose is all bunged up
so i thought
istead of doing an insane video I was going to do a simple video on to
solder copper pipe. Now we have done one video before, I think it was the first one we
ever uploaded so I thought we'd re visit that and also show you how unrealistic
every other plumbing video is on soldering copper pipe so lets go
now
oh yeah
Hold tight!
So firstly what we need is some flux
a brush and a cloth
A blow torch
you're not going to get anywhere without your blow torch and some pipe cleaner and
some solder this is lead free for potable water
so first things first we're going to get a little fitting out
so the simplest fitting there is a little Tee like that. First thing i'm going to show you is
how to prepare the pipe. So the first thing we do before we continue is clean the pipe
give it a little run round with your cleaner so once thats nice and clean we can
put some flux on it. You get some flux on your brush, and put that nicely over
the cleaned area.
I recommend you try and get some in the end of the fitting as well so we can see
at the moment
there's nothing in there so try and get some in the end of the fitting.
Then push the piece you've cleaned
Into the fitting you've got
push them together
just like that. Now that piece is ready to solder.
I'll do the same on the other side and out of the bottom.
Now we get our blow torch, light it up
and adjust it as it's only 15 mm pipe
to a really nice soft setting.
now apply the flame
nice and lightly to the copper fitting
that means our nozzle is about one inch away from the copper fitting. Now once it gets nice and warm
try and heat it up all the way around and then
once you think it's hot enough just touch the solder and that will run nicely into the fitting. Pop the flame underneath as well.
make sure it get's all around the fitting.
We'll do exactly the same at this end now.
Heat that fitting up
nice and evenly until you think you can get the solder to run into the fitting.
So we warm this fitting up here
for this lower one as these can be tricky sometimes. Everytime you touch the
solder wire to the fitting itself
take the flame away and then try and suck it into the fitting just like that
Sometime when you've finished soldering a copper fitting, give it a paint with some flux
especially if it's still hot, that'll clean the copper fitting down. A really important thing to remember
is to get your wet rag and wipe the excess flux off otherwise it will go
green and horrible.
make sure the pipe is nice and cool and give it a wipe
So there we go we have a nice, clean, non wastful soldered fitting there.
clean, non wastful
soldered fitting there. Nice 15 mm solder.
So that is nice and easy but what about in the real world?
You don't have a vice on the desk
in the real world
will be doing soldering like this
in a place like this HERE, that's were you'll be. You'll be doing this sort of thing
because you can't get round to the other part of the pipe. You'll getting the pipe
you'll be going
Ahhh, trying to get it all clean
wondering why did I take this job up? You'll only be able to get your flux round
one side of the pipe, because you can't get to the other side because it's
against a wall or something and then you'll be getting
your copper fitting and fluxing it becuase if it doesn't get all around
it ain't gonna solder brother. The pipes might not go together. You'll have to pull them out and
push them back in
You'll go Oh my god I need to get my heat matt in here but it
doesn't want to stay up or something. You'll get to the point of grabbing an
old bit of pipe
to hole your heat mat in position
We can't heat it all up so we've got to put the flame up
a little bit more
sometimes there's even a little bit of water in the pipe that you weren't able to get rid of
so you heat it up more. Sometime you have to pull the pipe down so you can get
some of that water out
if there's any in there
only once you've done all that can you run your solder in just like so.
So really are any of the other soldering videos out there on the interenet
realistic
I will take full responsibility for the one on produced about two or three years
ago and but i think of set a record straigt soldiering is easy if it's on a bench
in front of you
and if you can do it on site in front of you then
you today
but there'll always be a time when you have to get under a sink, behind a bath
or round a tenant or home owner that won't move
to solder up a copper fitting. I hope you've enjoyed todays video
I hope you realise I've got flu and I don't feel very well but I've come out here today
so we could all improve our soldering sills
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