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    How to isolate the boiler and drain it

    Wait if I'm going to look at the plate to plate heat exchanger do I not need to turn off the cold water mains inlet too or not?? Also how does one isolate the flow and return please?? There's a square nutwhich I'm presuming is for draining?? And a flat head screw like connection underneath...
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    How to isolate the boiler and drain it

    Hi, Could anyone advise how I can isolate a valliant combi boiler from the rest of the central heating system so that I do not have to drain the whole system down please. I have a plate to plate heat exchanger that is slightly leaking and want to just give it a check. Image below of my setup...
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    Cleaning Copper Pipe

    Thanks for your help. I'll give the abrasive pads a try. I do think though I heat my pipe up too much.
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    Cleaning Copper Pipe

    Hi all, I create things using copper pipe such as lamps etc. I would like to know if someone has a very simple way of removing the tarnish that is visible after soldering copper pipe? The best way I have found is wire wool, however, I'm not a huge fan of the stuff and I tend to go through...
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    Possible Career Change info needed

    Thanks for the reply. I was wondering which qualification it was to get a foot in the door?
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    Possible Career Change info needed

    Hi all, I'm currently looking at a number of industries for a potential career change. I love plumbing and working with my hands ever since i was a kid. Stuck behind a desk these days and would love to know more about plumbing. If I wanted to get qualified with both water and gas where would I...
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    Master Soldering help needed for a clean solder

    Well the plan is to have 3 tiers(as we collect spices and use them all the time) and attach it to the kitchen wall using munsen rings. Once finished I'll post more pics.
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    Master Soldering help needed for a clean solder

    Cheers Shaun... would have done it without your obvious insight to solder from the inside.
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    Master Soldering help needed for a clean solder

    Thanks. No the jars was the easy bit honestly. Better pictures the right way up here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxLXOZBjHN-7ZTFvbmpEQW1GdUk This is just the first tier. There's going to be three tiers in total.
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    Master Soldering help needed for a clean solder

    Ok well after a little trial and error today I had great results from soldering the inside of the fittings.
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    Master Soldering help needed for a clean solder

    Ok well after a little trial and error today I had great results from soldering the inside of the fittings. I give up with the pictures I've uploaded but they've turned out upside down I'm afraid.
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    Master Soldering help needed for a clean solder

    I'm a nutter... once I've got an idea in my head I run out and want to master it. We've just moved house and I'm looking at ways to create small things that are eye catching around the home. For example I created some scaffold board shelves and thought... what would look cool on their is a...
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    Master Soldering help needed for a clean solder

    Tried the tapping best but couch it would knock some joins out of line and then burnt fingers happen. The idea to solder through the other end though, sounds great and will try that next.
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    Master Soldering help needed for a clean solder

    Im still around Shaun cheers. Yeah I'm doing alright. I've found a few things out as I've gone such as if I make a mess of a join it's because the fitting wasn't hot enough or I'd applied too much flux. Also as the pipe is for decorative reasons, actually filing down blobs and then applying flux...
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    Master Soldering help needed for a clean solder

    There are some excellent tips here and will have another go using some of them. One thing that I will definitely look at is the silver solder. That sounds like a very good idea. Will post back with results
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