curved copper and sharkbite

Repair slip fitting and solder...

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dpb wrote in news:ic60mc$giq$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:

That's about the size of it.

I never saw posted "I'm thrilled about working in crawlspaces!".

OK. I'll have to wick some water out too.

I'm 6'6". I don't fold up well!

Thanks!

Jeff

Stuff some dried bread in there. seriously

I'm a good seven inches shorter, and I still don't fold up well :)

nate

Get a couple of short shovels and buckets. Get three guys that are standing in front of Home Depot. Tell them to make you space.

I have heard of using plain bread stuffed up the pipe to temporarily keep the water away from the soldering area, and then it will dissolve and can be let out thru the first spigot. Don't know what happens if the bread residue goes thru a water softener or water flter.

I've worked in crawlspaces where I needed a ladder to reach the ceiling or whatever you would call the underside of the basement floor. On the other hand I've been in crawlspaces where a ladder wouldn't be much help. :)

LdB

Solder or braze - or just bulldose the old barn and start over.

I took it to mean he'll have to wick some water out of the crawlspace

- - - but I likely misunderstood.

More flexible in 69 than I am now.

LdB wrote in news:EJSdnSxgX7AzSHvRnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@supernews.com:

Maybe flat to pull yourself along.

Watched plumber fuss with trying to get a fitting off that he installed that was leaking. Low spot, pipe was full of water.

He drilled a very small hole in the pipe, water leaked and he was able to get the fitting off/on/fixed. Soldered the drill hole shut.

Didn't get a chance to try the bread.

The street shutoff doesn't completely shut off. I cranked up the torch and boiled as much water out as possible and got it done quickly. No leaks!

Thanks, Jeff

It's amazing that as small as the new ones are, the original was what,

Friend and classmate -

I used to drive an MGB. I looked *over* the windshield when the top was down.

What a car, it really put you in touch with the road and the outdoors. If it was cold and wet outside, it was cold and wet inside too.

Jeff

It all depends on your diameter, my diameter was a lot less back in college four decades ago. 8-)

TDD

I use a swaging tool in those circumstances to restore the copper pipe to size. It may not make it perfect but it will put in back in a condition where a soldered fitting won't leak.

Yeah, back then I learned in training to crawl under barbed-wire an live machine gun fire. I had a small radius.

I wanted to buy an MG Midget to replace the Mini, but I couldn't get in - at least through the door. Jumping in and dropping one leg down each side of the wheel I could get in, but then I couldn't get my feet to the pedals.

And that's what we told him last week to do when he first asked the question. I'd never use a sharkbite fitting when I could just solder or use regular CPVC, etc.

The very best solution would be to get some Ford fittings. These will only be available at a commercial utility contractor's supply house - no box stores, not normal plumbing stores. The fittings are expensive but are so simple and positive they are well worth it.

Blue poly line and Ford fittings. These are the current materials used by cities and utility companies. These fittings won't care if the pipe is curved and the blue poly line is very forgiving for lining up, etc.