Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

[Kimou]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Dip into dilute sulphuric acid and use lead as the cathode. Connect lead to positive. Well you did ask.

 

[Kimou]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

What you could try though I haven't. Use your drill and 1 1/2" core bit with pilot. pack in a load of coarse wire wool stick the end of your pipe in and whizz away

 

[oaky]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

If you cut a pipe that you want to solder and it has water still trapped in it and you cant get it out i.e by opening tap and draining, nice little tip that works get a plant spray or the spray out of a window cleaner bottle and dip the end into the cut end and squirt in to a bowl/bucket and this will clear the pipe enough to solder the joint! Try it, it really works.

 

[WaterTight]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

If you keep speedfit stopends in your pocket in case of an emergency, every now and then try them on a bit of pipe. If you leave them in your pocket for more than a few weeks the bits of fluff and dirt will stop then connecting to the pipe properly. They can be cleaned of course, but defeats the object of an emergecny measure. I had two in pocket for about a month and couldn't be bothered to get some from my speedfit box so decided to use my emergency ones. Neither would go on the pipe.

 

[Puddle]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

If you cut a pipe that you want to solder and it has water still trapped in it and you cant get it out i.e by opening tap and draining, nice little tip that works get a plant spray or the spray out of a window cleaner bottle and dip the end into the cut end and squirt in to a bowl/bucket and this will clear the pipe enough to solder the joint! Try it, it really works.

good tip but I have always used the small tube from my u gauge to shove down pipe and syphon water out

:vanish:

 

[Puddle]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

If you keep speedfit stopends in your pocket in case of an emergency, every now and then try them on a bit of pipe. If you leave them in your pocket for more than a few weeks the bits of fluff and dirt will stop then connecting to the pipe properly. They can be cleaned of course, but defeats the object of an emergecny measure. I had two in pocket for about a month and couldn't be bothered to get some from my speedfit box so decided to use my emergency ones. Neither would go on the pipe.

maybe just keep them in a small plastic bag or stuff a bit of plastic bag in each end to keep rubbish out and just pull out when required

 

[Puddle]

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anyone any tips for filing chrome for soldered joints ?? takes to long using the old jeremy kyle

I use a hand held Dremel with small grinding disc,useful things,use it also to cut old rusted w/c cistern or seat bolts off with a small cutting disc

 

[Kimou]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

good tip but I have always used the small tube from my u gauge to shove down pipe and syphon water out

:vanish:

I've always used earth sleeving. But I like the squeezy doo-da.

 

[Guest123]

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There is a chemical that you coat on to the pipe, leave it and the chrome comes off much easier. Sorry but don't know its name or where to get it, an American friend told me about it.

For the newbies....NEVER EVER use chrome pipe with plastic pushfit fittings!

It might be this: Muriatic Acid/Hydrocloric Acid solution

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001B3UOOM...ominc&link_code=ur2&creative=9325&camp=211189

 

[Guest123]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

When fitting a slotted service valve (the one you switch off with a screwdriver) under a sink or hard to get at places where the valve isn't on show, a penny washer superglued into the slot makes a good handle for switching it on and off without messing about with a screwdriver. Cheaper than buying the ones with plastic handles.