Solder ring fittings are very common in
the UK, for some reason these are not
very common in other countries and I'm
not quite sure why that is.
These are available from 6mm
up to over 60mm in diameter.
These can be used on any
copper pipe it can be used for gas, water
or even potable water. These have been
around for a very long time in the UK.
These are often called yorkshire
fittings, solder ring fittings or even
capillary fittings.
I have had quite a lot of questions about these types of
fittings over the years so in this video
we're just going to take a quick look at
them and I'll show you how to make a
quick joint using one of these fittings.
So these are made from copper you can
also get brass ones and you can also get
chrome-plated ones. This one is a 22 mm
reducing down to a 15 mm. I have to say
that these are relatively inexpensive
until you go to the larger or smaller sizes.
The 15 mm ones are by far
the cheapest. You can get six and eight
millimeter and ten millimeter which are
more expensive than the 15 millimeter
and you can get these going up to 60
millimetres and they are really expensive.
That is a 15 millimeter
slip coupling that could be used to join
two pieces of 15 millimeter tube together,
but of course you would have to
use some solder if you were using one of those.
The solder ring fittings actually
have the solder already pre applied on
the inside. That means that it is very
easy to make a joint and it's very good
for DIYers and people that don't do a
lot of soldering. You don't necessarily
need to use a blowtorch to make these
work you can actually use a heat gun if
you prefer. But having said that it does
take considerably longer using a heat gun.
These are also available in chrome
plated. If you are joining chrome plated
pipe it is essential that you remove the
chrome first
because you cannot solder onto chrome.
If we take a look at the Pegler website you can actually see that they do a massive
amount of different types of fittings
and these are available in sizes from
six millimeters up to over 60
millimeters in diameter. As you can
see from that they are available in
copper brass and chrome plated.
You can get a clear view of the solder on the
inside of these types of fittings from
this which is a click fix patch repair.
I have actually done a video on how
to use one of these so I will put a link
to that in the description as well.
So you can make a permanent soldered
fitting using a solder ring fitting very
quickly indeed. All we need to do is
take the pipe I'm just going to de burr that
I'll just do both pieces of pipe
that we're going to join together.
Once we've done that we just need to ensure
the pipe is clean. We can do that
using a piece of scotch brite pad.
Simply need to clean off enough of that at the end there
for the fitting to go into.
We will now do the same with the other piece.
We've now got the two clean pieces of pipe
we now just need to take the
fitting just give that a quick clean on
the inside there with the scotch brite
pad just to ensure that that is clean.
We then just need to take some flux.
Flux is a chemical that cleans the
copper ensuring that the solder sticks correctly.
You don't need to apply too much.
You can also apply some flux to the
inside of the fitting if you wish to do so.
You can then take both pieces of pipe
ensuring that they are pushed fully into
the fitting. We can then wipe off any
excess flux.
You can then take a blowtorch
or a heat gun and all we need
to apply to that is a gentle heat.
Once the solder starts to exit from the ends
of the fitting that is it, we can just allow
that to cool down naturally and
then the joint is made.
It is important that you do not move the
joint once you have started to heat it
up until it has cooled down fully.
I would just like to point out that these fittings do
actually use lead-free solder.
So as you can see the solder has exited from both
sides of the fitting that will give you
a very strong and very durable joint.
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