this is a click fix pipe repair patch this is made from copper and it actually
has solder on the inside so it's just like a solder ring fitting but that
will actually just clip onto the pipe and then you can solder that in position
obviously you need to clean the pipe first these are fantastic idea if you
get a hole in a copper pipe it's very common for people to go around putting
screws in the floorboards trying to fix down loose boards sometimes people
don't puncture the pipes if you do that you get a screw in the pipe and the
water leaks out obviously this is just a on the bench demo so I'm just going
to demonstrate how these work and then afterwards I'm going to pressurize the
pipe with some pressurized water and we'll see how much pressure one of these
can actually take so to start off with I'm going to take a screw and
we've got a copper pipe here I'm now going to drive the screw into the copper
pipe if you did that in a real-life situation you would have water dripping
out of the hole so what you would have to do now is drain down the system or
isolate the water and drain down to ensure there is no water in the pipe
once you've done that you can then remove the screw you take a look at that
we have got a bit of the copper sticking up where the screw has lifted it so we
do need to remove that first we're going to do that using a file normally if
you're going to repair that you would have to cut out a section of the pipe
possibly use a couple of slip couplings or a pipe repair coupling but
with this you don't actually need to cut into the pipe you can simply solder
that over the top so these are an absolutely fantastic idea
I actually paid £2.99 for that from screwfix and I have actually
seen people selling these on ebay for nine quid so please be careful where
you buy them from as there are some people out there that will take
advantage of you so before we can solder this on we
need to give that a clean one of the best things for cleaning copper pipe
before soldering is a scotch brite pad this is a piece that I've cut off the I
normally quite a bit larger than this I've not actually seen these for sale previously
and it was actually a YouTube member that pointed me towards these and I am
really sorry I can't actually remember the name of the guy recommended them
now we've done that I'm just going to apply a little bit of flux to the pipe
this will clean it even further you can apply this with a flux brush if you have
one I'm now going to get the repair patch and ensuring that I've got it central
I'm going to push that directly over the hole I'm now going to take some paper towel
I'm going to clean off any of the excess flux because we've got piece of
timber underneath I'm just going to put this soldering mat underneath there like
so and I'm going to use the blow torch I'm going to apply some heat to the
fitting and that will melt all the solder that is in there
you can see that we've got solder exiting from both of the ends if we turn
it over we've got solder along the long edges
as well so it does quite literally only take a couple of seconds for the
solder to melt I'm now going to use the pressure testing rig and we'll just see
exactly how much pressure this can take to start off we're just going to remove
any trapped air that's in the pipe because we don't want to pressurize the air so
we've now got water in the pipe I'll now proceed to pressure test the pipe so you
can see that we're now at ten BAR we are now at twenty BAR now at thirty BAR and I
we are now at more than forty BAR and we're now up past fifty BAR which is the actual
limit of the pressure testing rig as you can see there's no sign at all of that
failing so they are going absolutely fantastic idea for repairing copper
pipes because you don't actually need to cut the pipe to do the repair that will
give you a long lasting permanent repair I hope you found this video useful if
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