Comment on Brazing Copper Plumbing Pipe?

David_Eight@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The same is actually true of a lot of refrigeration components as well. You just wrap a wet strip of rag around the pipe to act as a heat barier between where you’re brazing and the sensitive component. As long as the rag stays wet (which it will unless you go really slow) then heat won’t significantly propogate past that point. Just doing that can let you braze a joint within 1" of a plastic component as long as you’re careful where you point the torch.

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  • David_Eight@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I meant soldering/brazing directly to the shower valve. Which you can do when soldering, I’m no expert on brazing though.

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    • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m not sure about shower valves in particular but I have devinitely brazed directly to regular nylon core plumbing ball valves before by using the rag trick.in that case you just wrap the valve itself with the wet rag.

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