Funny my house is ful of them and not one has failed in the 16 years I'v= e been here. As for expense, how much of your time is taken to solder a= joint?
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But most of those would probably have died shortly afterwards anyway.
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You are very obviously not a plumber. I *know* 100% that you are wrong. I used to use *end feed* fittings which are about a tenth of the price of compression joints. Soldering a joint doesn't take much more time to solder than using compression fittings. At least to a plumber it doesn't.
They tend to look neater, too. However, they are not as easy to undo as a compression fitting - but there again, you might never want to.
I'm not a great plumber, but around 10 seconds to solder a joint, a little more to flux it and steel wool it first. Say 30 second.
That's not what takes the time. It's deciding where the pipe is to go, cutting it and bending it and holding it there.
Which is the same fr compression.
The real time saver is flexible plastic pipe . That is FAST.
Compression fittings take virtually no time at all, and don't require eq= uipment and heat and so forth to use. Some people just like to do thing= s "the tradition correct way" without thinking.
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More likely the plumber doesn't give a s*it about future modifications. = I've found it very handy to be able to remove one and change what goes = into it.
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simply pout a pipe cutter in and remove the section.
OR heat em up and knock em apart
you cant reuse a compression joint anyway. You need to cut the pipe and use a new olive.
Yes, I had noticed that. But upon peering in, it looks like it's missing!
OTOH the other day I decided to descale the filter on the washing machine. Darned thing started leaking afterwards... after a few days it did stop, though.
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You can reuse it, just not the olive.
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Well it'll almost certainly be a hex socket head so it won't look like much. Have you tried an Allen key down the hole?
Tim
Surely, that's how bad the metal impairment is ;-)
To be totally accurate - CuO, Pb and Sn as well.
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I believe Pb was the problem they were referring to? Why do you have th= at?
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It is a constituent of solder.
A good reason to use compression fittings. Although I thought solder was now lead free? I'm sure it is, as people working in electronics complain about its higher melting point making it harder to avoid damaging the components.
I found a vid on youtube of someone dismantling something similar which provided Clue - the grub screw holding the lever on to the cartridge is a hex ('Allen key') one. Take that out, bosh the thing with a hammer, remove lever, squirt wd40 on to cartridge, re-mantle, and it is slightly improved.
Phoned Howdens and they volunteered to provide a replacement FOC.
Um, how many times did I tell you that?
You're allowed to read stuff here as well as post stuff.
Tim
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