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

[SimonJohns]

Mapp gas for soldering when a pipe has a slight amount of water in it

Making sure you always have an open end when soldering with a slight amount of water. The steam will blow the solder out of fitting

 

[Steve001]

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

Use your blow lamp to heat up a screwdriver tip to undo screws and ballofix vales that' are covered with paint

 

[REDSAW]

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

put the blowlamp on the pipe slice for a few minutes then tell the apprentice to cut some pipe.
shuts them up for the rest of the day!.

 

[REDSAW]

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

neat end feed soldering?.

a 15mm pipe end feed requires 15mm of solder, 22mm pipe fitting = 22mm of solder = no snot.

 

[REDSAW]

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Did some wazzer in collage tell you that :lol:

lol,
i think it was the copper guild?. something to do with yorkies too, the solder in them is the fitting circumfrance divied by 2 = dia.?. or pie rsed.
some days when i feel lazy i just lay solder across pipe like a robot. seems to work well.

 

[WHPES]

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Use your blow lamp to heat up a screwdriver tip to undo screws and ballofix vales that' are covered with paint

if you don't mind losing the temper of your screwdriver tip, making it go bendy, and throwing it away afterwards.

Keep an old worn screwdriver for doing this, not your best ones!

 

[GQuigley67]

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angling the screwdriver and hitting it with a hammer scraping the paint out usually does it for me

 

[Kerryt]

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Don't just support the ends of the worktop on trestles. Support the narrow edge portions that will remain after the sink hole has been cut. Otherwise the centre stretch of the worktop chases the cutout bit to the floor...

 

[Best]

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Don't turn the sink upside down on worktop & mark around it, as you do, & then cut on that mark instead of first marking it 12mm or so inside that line for actual cut. I haven't done this, but knew of a fitter who did & then the sink fell through the hole he had cut!

 

[Guest123]

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i guess that's happened to you then. i put the worktop in place then cut the sink hole.

Same here. That's the way I do it and if it's a round bowl sink, I use a router fixed in place in the middle to cut a perfect circle.