How do you apply your flux?

[tamz]

We all have our vices :lol:

 

[TBServices]

We all have our vices :lol:

I feel like you've created a problem for me now. I'm at a crossroads. One way is getting home faster, one is tidier joints. What a quandary.

Do you literally not clean anything? Not even those little marks the pipeslice rollers leave on the pipe?

 

[tamz]

Honestly. I clean nothing but the very dirtiest of pipes and i know even then i don't need to but i do out of habit and because it is cheaper than a drain down. Never cleaned a fitting since around 1985 when self cleaning fluxes came out.

If you switch to traditional fluxes everything needs to be spotless or you will get leaks but it looks so much better.
My 1st 2 weeks in this trade was as a fittings polisher and tea maker. I've hated it ever since.
Btw i've used laco for 25 years.

 

[TBServices]

Well I've used powerflow since I was an apprentice (you stick to what you're taught/know) and I've never worked with anyone who didn't clean their pipe and fittings!

Will give it a try from now on.

 

[tamz]

Powerflow works to an extent but definitely clean your dirty ones. Laco and everflux work on anything.
Btw i absolutely hate powerglue :lol:

 

[TBServices]

Powerflow works to an extent but definitely clean your dirty ones. Laco and everflux work on anything.
Btw i absolutely hate powerglue :lol:

When I was an apprentice I turned up with a pot of ever flux and he threw it in the bin, gave me some powerflow and said its my way or the highway lol

 

[tamz]

I don't really like everflux either. It makes me itch looking at it and i come out in a rash if i use it but it is a good flux if you can stand it. Probably the strongest of all the fluxes. That was one of the first self cleaning fluxes to appear on the market in the 80's. It has the old zinc chloride from the traditional flux mixed with ammonium chloride. It is the ammonia that gets me. I get the same if i mix some soot with water when doing back boilers (it makes ammonia) and i spent 10 years of my life rolling in soot.
Btw look up the coshh sheets on some fluxes. There is some serious bad stuff in some.

 

[Hobo128]

Pipe and fitting with a tooth brush.

 

[dancinplumba]

Which is why it is irrelevant Danny. Anyone doing this for a living doesn't need told how to do the basics. Everyone will do it their own way.

Makes me laugh when he Cihpe magazine has step by step instructions on how to make a joint

 

[stoker122]

Makes me laugh when he Cihpe magazine has step by step instructions on how to make a joint

Easy/lazy copy for the mag.