Dumb plumbing question

[Stan Coryell]

We moved into an old farm house in the mid 60's. It had galvanized plumbing, which I replaced with CPVC with in a couple of years.
We lived there until 2015, and the CPVC was still holding/working fine.

Dusty

The bendable line is 1/2" refrigeration tube which is seldom used for water. The hard line is commonly used 1/2 plumbing line. If you can insert one into the other after a good cleaning braze the joint rather than soldering(sweating). It doesn't matter if joint is loose,braze will fill it just fine. If you are unable to slip one into other the simple way is to cover joint with 2-3 inches 3/4 soft tube, squeeze 1/2" or so closed at each end then braze. Refrigeration guys do it all the time and it holds far more pressure than yours will ever see. Sil-phos brazing rod doesn't require flux, a few other brazing rods and silver do need flux. Flat brazing filler melts at higher temperature than solder and lower temperature than brazing commonly used in auto and farm repair. If you find a flat stick but don't know if it needs flux you can test a spot on clean copper or just flux it then clean up residue afterwards.

The neat looking way if one doesn't slip inside other is to heat hard line cherry,cool in hot sand or wrap in welder blanket until cool. That will soften line so it will stretch when a round swedge is driven into it. Proceed to braze as above.

I really enjoy the misinformation on this site.

The bendable line is 1/2" refrigeration tube

So I can only buy soft 1/2 copper tube in type ACR?

Plumbers go by id,refregeration guys go by od.

So 1/2" types k, l, and m all use different fittings? I already explained this fact...

 

[Dusty MI]

My favorite variant on that is that the "dumb question" is the one you don't ask if you don't know.

Sometimes I think it would be nice know where you guys lived. If someone was having trouble doing something and he lived not very far away from one of us then we could give him a hand.

Dusty

 

[zuhnc]

Likewise; where is "here"? There are probably 10 members that live within 100 miles of me, but that will never be known, without some type of location in the avatar. I peruse another web site on which 99% of the members have a location. No one seems bothered by stating where they are. Some interesting conversations ensue because someone lived near there, or remembers a certain cafe or store in that area.

If someone is needing some type of help, one can look at the avatar and determine if that person is close enough to visit. I have offered some in-person help to those members, because I can see if they are within driving distance.

On here, people tend to be so secretive, one sometimes wonders if they are not just an AI program.

People know where I live, and if someone is nearby, or just driving by, they can stop in for a visit. zuhnc