Best Tape at Home Depot?

[rScotty]

In the workshop, I want to do a temporary plumbing bandage on a 1" brass cold water pipe. It's a pinhole seep right in the middle & drips about a drop every 2 minutes. No good way to drain it.
My idea is to wind it with gorilla tape covered by some flashing & clamp that down with worm drive clamps Only needs to last a couple of days.
My guess is the pinhole means it was just poor quality pipe.
rScotty

 

[Topzide]

Wrap a piece of inner tube around and clamp it.

 

[FullMetalBucket]

Had a bad right angle connection at the last house on a copper heat pipe. Was winter so didn’t want to shut off the heat and drain it to fix so I used some stretch and seal tape. Completely stopped the leak and kept air from getting in the line. Was similar to this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001JT73D8/ref=dp_iou_view_item?ie=UTF8&th=1

 

[doneill127]

I’ve had good luck with silicon tape. In the plumbing section at HD and other places

 

[D&D]

In the workshop, I want to do a temporary plumbing bandage on a 1" brass cold water pipe. It's a pinhole seep right in the middle & drips about a drop every 2 minutes. No good way to drain it.
My idea is to wind it with gorilla tape covered by some flashing & clamp that down with worm drive clamps Only needs to last a couple of days.
My guess is the pinhole means it was just poor quality pipe.
rScotty

Go get a pipe repair clamp, you may never have to “repair” it again.

 

[EddieWalker]

To answer your question, the best tape is Zip Tape. It does everything people used to use Duct Tape for!!! I keep a roll in my truck all the time. It's one of those things that I have to have with me.

For your pinhole leak, the inner tube idea is pretty good. Or anything rubber that will compress when tightened should work for you.

Having said that, I had a client with a small leak like that and I told him to turn off the water to the house since there was no way to know for sure if it would get worse or not. His wife wanted to do laundry, so they left the water on all night. Sometime while they were asleep, the hold got bigger, and they woke up to a flood in their house.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/ZIP-System-90-ft-Stretch-Panel-System-Tape/1000510449

 

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In the workshop, I want to do a temporary plumbing bandage on a 1" brass cold water pipe. It's a pinhole seep right in the middle & drips about a drop every 2 minutes. No good way to drain it.
My idea is to wind it with gorilla tape covered by some flashing & clamp that down with worm drive clamps Only needs to last a couple of days.
My guess is the pinhole means it was just poor quality pipe.
rScotty

Ive never had good luck with tape for this no matter what the type.
As a mechanic, you must have some heater hose around.
Slit it, affix to pipe, hose clamp...done.
I must have used this method half a dozen times and at least ten years later for the older fixes, they're still holding.
Of course longer term fix involves sectioning and Pex Pipe with Sharks.

 

[JeepHead]

A saddle coupling works great in this situation.

 

[bigtiller]

To answer your question, the best tape is Zip Tape. It does everything people used to use Duct Tape for!!! I keep a roll in my truck all the time. It's one of those things that I have to have with me.

For your pinhole leak, the inner tube idea is pretty good. Or anything rubber that will compress when tightened should work for you.

Having said that, I had a client with a small leak like that and I told him to turn off the water to the house since there was no way to know for sure if it would get worse or not. His wife wanted to do laundry, so they left the water on all night. Sometime while they were asleep, the hold got bigger, and they woke up to a flood in their house.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/ZIP-System-90-ft-Stretch-Panel-System-Tape/1000510449

I bought a 4" wide role of zip tape awhile back. You're right, it is good stuff. And sticky. It is so sticky, after peeling off three 12" pieces for a temporary roof repair, my finger tips were hurting from grabbing the sticky side so many times.