Making the Perfect End Feed Solder Joint

[tipintim]

Gob smacked! Wipe the joint after you solder!You cant make an omlett without breaking eggs.The only time you need to tin is when you do a taff joint, and thats gone out of the window. Or am I old?

 

[nicro3]

Hard to put into print, clean and flux pipe, heat pipe until solder runs wipe with rag old skool.

 

[tuttogallo]

After the pre tinned pipe has been asssembled into the fitting, is extra solder needed, or will the tinning be enough?

thanks

Tuttogallo

 

[Best]

Any plumber who wants to make a good living hasn't got time to dilly around pre-tinning their joints! I aim for efficiency and detest ugly snot joints. I do exactly as Clanger suggests in a previous post. It's quick, neat and enables me to blow twice as many joints as you per hour

He is right, though, - it does help make a good joint because, once tinned the pipe can't tarnish. Only really handy to do if, for example you had a pipe end sticking through a wall, which could only be joined at a later date & weather or whatever would tarnish it. Very advisable to tin pipes that need a lead joint done to a lead pipe.

 

[Backboiler]

After the pre tinned pipe has been asssembled into the fitting, is extra solder needed, or will the tinning be enough?

thanks

Tuttogallo

Forget it Tuggs, your mates will laugh at you

 

[Best]

After the pre tinned pipe has been asssembled into the fitting, is extra solder needed, or will the tinning be enough?

thanks

Tuttogallo

The tinning will be a very thin "spray paint" coat, so you still need to apply solder to an end feed.

 

[zzzjim]

Using pre tinned stuff , wont your mates accuse you of re-cycling old !

 

[nicro3]

This is the way I was taught to solder end feed fittings all sizes over 38 years ago by the college I attended, as by the plumbers I trained with. Obviously in the years I have worked in the industry rarely have I tinned pipe to solder end feed. With the exception of 54mm and 67mm end feed which to be safe should be tinned

 

[zzzjim]

Cheers , Nicro3 skill of moving hot solder about without flicking in eyes is useful ,

( H & f S -- probably won't agree )

Makes lots of sense for big joints , new lead free stuff is naff at wetting !

( takes me back to 80-90s --Pipe master - DIY 15mm soldering tool )

 

[nicro3]

Any plumber who wants to make a good living hasn't got time to dilly around pre-tinning their joints! I aim for efficiency and detest ugly snot joints. I do exactly as Clanger suggests in a previous post. It's quick, neat and enables me to blow twice as many joints as you per hour

Did not know we were racing, on your marks , set and go.