PEX tubing looks like the perfect tubing to run a hot water loop to a distant bathroom. I see some very expensive tool to crimp the tubing, using a crimp collar, to the barb. Is there any other way to do this? That is, without buying $100+ is special tools. Will clamps work? Are there any compression fitting that can be used on PEX. Thanks.
PEX can be joined with the PEX barbed fittings AND metal rings SS or copper) & a crimper OR wiith PEX doubler rings & an expander tool.
The expander takes advantage of the shape memory of PEX, the ring & crimper you're just squeezing the PEX down over the fitting.
I getting ready to do a repipe, I just bought an expander on Ebay. I haven't got my who repipe system thought out but I guessing that the cimp & expnader methods use different diameter fittings.
The expander & crimpers can be had on Ebay.
Art-
I'm not PEX expert but I've done a lot of reading about it. I getting close to doing a repipe in my own house. Several guys I know really like it & have suggested that I give up on my "old school" love of copper.
this site has the crimp tools & fittings
If you're only doing a few connections that's probably the way to go.
cheers Bob
The simplest solution is to get your plumbing runs cut and already to put together and then rent a tool for half a day. HD and any plumbing shop have the crimp rings, something like $6.00 a box of 15. The tool will rent for about $15.00. Ask me how I know? Well, my kid asked me to help seal up the bottom of a trailer after a leak and the first thing I did was put a staple into a pex tubing, so I had to repair it.
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