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- So if you have a piece of 19 mil poly
with a hole in it.
Like that.
It's leaking.
This is something that will happen a lot in households
and rather then having to call someone in
to fix something really easy, I justed wanted
to show you how to repair a pipe
it doesn't matter what size it is
if it's low-density poly.
We've identified that we've got a damaged pipe there.
We're gonna cut the pipe on either side
of the damaged part and remove that damaged bit.
If you remove too much, obviously you're gonna keep
in mind this pipe's been in the ground so it's in situ.
If you remove too much, you're gonna have
to cut that back further and put two joiners in.
For this purpose, we're gonna use a 19 mil joiner.
This is an Antelco joiner where they're
made in Murray Bridge,
really high-quality joiner.
We're gonna push that joiner in.
We've got two ways we can do the join,
we can use the cobra clamps
or we can use the Antelco poly-clamps.
Anyone who's got a problem with polyclips,
it's usually because they've bought the clips
form a hardware shop where they've been made
in Taiwan or something.
These are an Australian made clip
so you won't have problems with them.
I'll put one one each side just so you get an idea
of how it goes together.
You wanna make sure you get a nice, clean cut.
You push your pipe right into the fittings
so that the cuts go right into where the fitting is.
You want to've slid that poly-clip over the pipe previously
or can actually open that up and put it around afterwards.
That poly-clip there you do it by hand to a point,
then you need to use multigrips to tighten that up.
I'll just grab some multigrips.
Ah, in true Clint fashion.
Why do you have to film me leaving all the time?
He hates to see me go, but he loves to watch me leave.
You get your multigrips, adjust them to the size
that you require.
Then you're just crushing that clip.
So that clip, I can't tighten up anymore.
I always make sure that it's even...
the size, there's not one tooth sticking out either way.
If you hold the pipe, you can't turn that clip,
and you're not gonna pull that off.
The idea with your clip,
you want it to sit just behind that ridge
so it's stopping the pipe from pulling back over the barb.
So that's the polyclip.
Now, the cobra clip...
Cobra, are the original...
This is a cobra tool.
The cobra clips are the best, stainless steel clamp.
Slightly different process...
You hook your teeth of the tool to the clamp.
See how you've got these ridges here?
You wanna grab it between the two big ridges, like so.
Then that just pulls, like that.
Now, that's taken a lot more force than that clip did.
That cobra clamp is a lot tighter.
Now, if we didn't get that in the right spot,
we can use these cobra tool...
Or if we need to remove it for something, and pop the clamp.
I wasn't really happy with how close that was
to the ridge, so I wanna slide it up.
Look, I'm being really pedantic 'cause we're making a video.
It was fine.
Put it over...
So we've reused that clamp.
Now, I'll show you poly one as well.
We can reuse these polyclips as well if you need to.
If you try and do this with a hardware shop clamp,
you're not gonna be able to do.
I'll probably break it now that I've said that.
Yes, I fuckin broke it. (laughing)
It will work.
I think grabbed that on the wrong side.
So, I'm gonna clamp that one down again.
You can see that.
(clicking)
So that's nice and tight.
Now, if I wanted to take that off...
See how we go.
There they go.
So I've taken that apart.
Now, if you did that with a hardware shop clip
or the last clip, you're gonna likely break it.
I'll do that with no fingers a little bit more.
Crush that down.
The cobra clip is used in vineyard irrigation
and areas where a breakage is gonna cost
a lot of money and a lot of water.
We started to see these creeping into the landscape market
a lot more because landscapers are doing jobs
where the cost of the clip outweighs the cost
of going back and fixing something.
A guide would be...
This might be 30 cents and these would be $1.00 to $1.20.
You're paying three to four times the price for a clamp.
Residentially, that's probably fine
'cause you can just go outside and fix your system.
For a landscaper who doesn't want to back,
we find that a lot more are choosing these.
So that's how to fix a blowout in a 19 mil polypipe.
You'd run the same process for 30, 19, 25, or 32.
We stock all of them here at Waterpro.
That is that.