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[yanmars]

$4 a foot. Wow.

 

[fatjay]

$4 a foot. Wow.

If you have a source for cheap romex, i'm all ears.

 

[EddieWalker]

You can pack the pipe with white bread to stop the water from coming out while soldering. They also sell a dissolvable foam type product that does the same thing as bread.

I keep a length of clear tubing in my soldering toolbox that fits inside half inch copper pipe. I either syphon the water out of the pipe, or I put the tubing as far in as I can, then plug the end of the tubing with my finger and pull the water out in the tubing.

If I'm lucky, they house I'm working on has an outside spicket that's lower than the water level and I can drain it that way.

 

[fatjay]

You can pack the pipe with white bread to stop the water from coming out while soldering. They also sell a dissolvable foam type product that does the same thing as bread.

I keep a length of clear tubing in my soldering toolbox that fits inside half inch copper pipe. I either syphon the water out of the pipe, or I put the tubing as far in as I can, then plug the end of the tubing with my finger and pull the water out in the tubing.

If I'm lucky, they house I'm working on has an outside spicket that's lower than the water level and I can drain it that way.

How do you get hte white bread out after you're done?

I ended up dropping the brackets that hold it up and draining it that way. The whole length of the tube between shutoff's was only about 20' and linear.

 

[EddieWalker]

The bread dissolves. Never use the crust, just the white bread. You have a window of time to get the soldering done, but if you take too long, you have to add more bread.

I've only done the bread trick once. After that I found the foam stuff at Lowes and used it for years. But now I just use the tubing. Most of the time I'm sweating for water valves in bathrooms, and the water doesn't have anywhere lower to go then where I cut the copper. I just need to lower the water enough so I can get the copper hot.

 

[fatjay]

Ok so it's not "packed" with bread, just kind of stuffed in there lightly.

 

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