How to Sweat Copper Pipes : Fixing Mistakes When Sweating Copper Pipes

[marklmansfield]

Chill out, Its not like he is working on the space shuttle a nuke sub or steam pipe fittings.

[TheBAK777]

Well ,not that I have experience or training on how to sweat copper but considering the reviews on you reusing fittings (assuming the reviewers know what's what) I'm going to need to see your sources for your claim. Otherwise I'm going to take their view on your competence and fulfill my social obligation by referring to this on youtube everytime I see you do anything else. Sorry man, you gotta know your stuff if you want to be respected!

[j76]

I purposely tried to skip the ehow and expert village videos simply because they're pieces of crap. I was forced to watch 20 second ad for this 1:51 video and it turned out to be expert village. Useless... utterly useless. I hate expert village...

[quadroman68]

i wouldn't let this guy loose with pushfit , !!!!!!! whats his day job , mcdonalds ????

[pigpenworld]

Solder not Sodder !

[savannahsteve12997]

this should only be used in a total worse case scenerio like no hardware store around and you need to fix a leak quickly but should replace it the right way later. If you would have just said this in your video you probably wouldnt have been judged so harshly.

[starstarstar42]

"ExpertVillage" should rename their channel to "WorstAdviceEverVillage". Honestly, look at any of their videos and you'll see countless comments. It's like they grab random people off the street and call them "experts". Their drywalling videos are a joke, their electrical connections videos are almost criminal.

[AbsoluteVoice]

Don, stick to wearing a nice black T-Shirt under dress shirts....you do that well.

Please STOP giving bad advice....only a fool would reuse a copper solder fitting. It's a shame that people can offer such terribly wrong information. You give a BAD name to seaeoned DIYers. My suggestion for your next video is to not do one and pull all your current videos, seriously.

[Midehall]

Don't let this dumbass within a mile of your house.

[black67f100]

shouldnt say you can ALWAYS reuse it...not true for every case bro...guess thats why all your feedback is negative anyway

[LaRezNar]

you dont use solder on a pipe when its verticle moron!

[cboxgo]

@LaRezNar then how do you install copper tubing in a house?

[hulk182003]

I guess they will start letting monkeys do the jobs next. Damn they scraped the bottom of the barrel on this one.

[ruth1998]

and add flux....

[plumbworker]

don hackmann!!

[MarioRink]

Amazing ! I hope a lot of homeowners will watch that shit and when they put pressure on the system I hope they have a lot of Home Depot buckets handy!

[aramis0192]

this is the worst advice video i have ever seen.never ever reuse a fitting. studies show that a reused fitting has half the life span and just over half the max working pressure of an original fitting.best practice is to cut copper before you begin offer it into position befoe you solder too make sure it fits .using this method it's dam near impossible to make a mistake. but if you do then your just gonna have to cut the mistake out and invest in the necessary fittings and pipe to replace it.

[cboxgo]

@aramis0192 Do you have a link to these studies? I would be curious to see if plumbers and DIYers have been doing this wrong for decades when there's concrete data, conducted by an independent source, to explain why this is a bad idea. Personally, I think the joints are pretty cheap and probably worth just replacing but I would like to see if there is real data to indicate why it would damage a joint. After all, it's the same material as the pipes... Do the pipes need to be replaced too?

[captn1pugwash]

no flux for the re solder then lol

[airbournegas]

try and do that with water in the pipe not so easy i can tell you

[funguysmall]

thats why you drain the water!

[Melinda7386]

My boyfriend says, "That guy's awesome."

lol. Our shower broke, and this is the first time he's brazed (that's what it's called, right?). Anyway, your video saved his butt. Kickass.

[Freedom4u2talk]

I always thought the elbow at the bend was called the heal , not the top, and the inside was the throat! Hum, so much for a professional plumber! Dont forget to wipe the joint with a wet clothe! Makes for a nice clean job and gets rid of a over solder,

make sure to wipe away from you, If a little water in a repair joint stuff with some bread, See how easy that was, I am a real plumber, and no job it to hard, Take pride in your work,U only have one thing to sell!! It's your skill, Thanks

[2694wr]

your using the wrong part of the flame you freakin retarded monkey butt sniffer

[latinotunes]

Thanks so much for the info

[yzarc80]

I hope you don't go around telling people you're a plumber cause you have no clue what you're talking about. You're the BIGGEST DUMBASS I'VE EVER SEEN

[Costar75]

Hey, another safety precaution big guy, dont use a lighter, use a striker to light that torch ^_~ Its worth mentioning, not to use TOO much heat or you'll burn up the fitting, not a bad idea to add a lil flux to it then run that solder back around ..

[Godofwarmike]

its also not a bad idea to NOT follow anything this dude has to say unless you want to have to replace all your pipes when they blow apart

[Costar75]

well I saw enough of those from a couple characters that worked where I used to work. I had a stop blow off once when I first began to learn how to solder. I didnt understand the importance of getting the heat where I wanted the solder to go, typical noob mistake. Since then I've sweat thousands of joints w/ a few tiny leaks popping up, here/there. My buddy & I'd avg less than 10 tiny ones out of 300-600 joints.

[vegetableox]

it's a pre soldered fitting... he shouldn't be using that shit in the 1st place