How to Sweat Copper Pipes : Sweating Copper Pipes

[benplumn]

1st DO NOT LIGHT A TORCH WITH A LIGHTER any welding instrctor will tell you that sorry go to plumbing school.

[supersesqui]

Who exactly are these fucking idiots who do these vids ?

My 10 year old son can solder better than that !!

[derby678]

Could you put any more solder in that ahaha!!

[MrJANTJE123]

you suck

[MrBOBBzz]

STATE OF IT... What a mess !!

[Redman092000]

"this is very hot don't touch it " g golly you think

[jumpdance24]

Is there anything on expertvillage which is done correctly.

[XRyanXL]

Burn the fitting much?

[leaddrop]

expertvillage should ask for their money back.

[leaddrop]

damn dude! thats some dirty ass pipe! you get that out of the scrap bin?

[ukpianist]

muppet you dont need to go around the flux does that for you. You only need a bit of solder.

[pats1972]

its probably only got a 10mm bore now you put that much SODER (solder in the queens english) in there, what a dick!

[rusovich1999]

and what is whit silver solder copper

[RudeRaptor]

Good I'm glad you did this from an angle and explained that the solder gets sucked in the joint. I wasnt sure what kept the solder from running away from the connecting joint from an angle position. Thanks!

[jakclutch]

Why dont some of you make a video on how to solder instead of bashing on this guy so we can learn.

[DRISSERY]

Idiot, way to much solder used! AMATUER..

[SoupedUpMario]

if you did that work in my house id take that blowtorch to your face

leave it to the REAL experts

[darkmaster388]

Fail, copper transfers heat real well, so if you evenly heat the joint and the pipe, it will work just fine.

[FarginBastiges]

I love how he leaves that butane lighter right under where he's working with a TORCH!

[ericplumbist]

Wipe it while its hot.

Its only half inch copper you should have soldered it in 20 seconds. Your "test" was enough solder for the joint.

[48113772]

so true.. way too much heat !

[adrianbade]

u overheat that pipe way to much

i can solder 10 fitings with the solder u'r using

visit newway energy & hometechnic and see how its dan right

[trucker69orso]

You overheated the pipe and used wayyyy too much solder. The solder always flows towards the heat source.

[scoootme]

looks shit!

costs loads!

waste of time!

[nightshot103]

True. Looks that way. Looks like a health hazard, too. Worried about something that looks like that carrying water supply.

I hope PEX becomes a norm over copper -- IF PEX is non-toxic.

You know how flexible plastic, like the bottle water plastic, tends to leach chemicals into the water.

[farstadman]

in norway we use pex a lot and its a lot easier to work with than copper much easier for installing part aswell because of the wall boxes you use along with the pex

[tslabjr7]

so they obviously must be teaching us the right stuff.

[binashraf]

expert village my arse,this guy is far from an expert,bloody retard

[towbinJosh]

Think you heated that up enough Pinhead?

[plumberdoc2]

As pointed out below this guy is a REAL hack. If you follow his poor instructions you will have a high percentage of failed or going to fail shortly joints. Check out other how to sweat copper videos on You Tube (like Tony the plumbers video).

[tubecella123]

Question for you? What could cause a Mapp gas cylinder to spring a leak just below where the threads for the tip are. The cylinder was being used to sweat copper pipes and had been used 2 weeks prior. Just before the cylinder exploded, a soft flame erupted from under the threading. My sister was badly burned and we are wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience. We appreciate your response.

[Freedom4u2talk]

Good god! over heated the joint, burn't the shit out of the flux! A little heat to the elbow an a small amount to the pipe, an 1/2 of solded, done, Pick up a cold wet cloth an wipe the joint and see what you have created, it will take you a couple time but I assure you it's better the way i am saying, want more detail? ask me! i done this foe 27 years,

[Costar75]

Its obvious this is for demonstration but he definately used abit of heat there. I think he's on the right track however, anyone I've ever seen solder, including self, heat the joint, not the pipe, thats where you want the solder to go, in the joint. The amount of heat is crucial, too little (& in the wrong place) results in cold solder, too much & a burnt pipe/fitting results ..

[NoTap93]

he burnt the crap out of that pipe, i usually just put on the solder as soon as the flux starts bubbling and havent had a leak yet

[PLUMBdogg]

Okay... Always heat the pipe first because heating the outside of the fitting only turns it black and with as much heat that he applied, it's practically annealed. After pipe is heated, move to the back of the fitting with the flame pointed out toward the face of the fitting. This will push any excess flux out of the socket and draw the solder into the deepest area of the fitting. Solder goes where the heat and flux are so if you have your torch at 9 oclock, keep the solder at 3 oclock.