"Yorkshire" end solder fittings

Yes, they go disappointingly grey within seconds of the joint cooling.

From memory of too many years ago. Clean the pipe with steel wool. Clean inside the fitting with steel wool. Apply flux to pipe, with finger. Fit pipe to fitting. Heat up and see the solder flow at the end of the fitting. Apply a bit of solder from your reel of solder, just to make sure. The brushes were crap. The solderless fitting were cheap crap. Yorkshire fittings were the very best. Dunno what they are like now.

If the Yorkshire fitting was food it would have PGI status and it's solder:-).

On 13/11/2017 20:04, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: .

Probably the same but just grumpier due to old age and complaining about all these new newfangled plastic push pit fittings that are taking their jobs away.

Wickes used to do something like that which was very good.

(what I want is something like that mounted on a mandril so you can stick it in a chuck on an angle drill. Would be so much easier when making connections to old painted rad tails etc or when you just need to clean loads of joints.

I have a newfangled plastic push fitting under my kitchen sink and cupboards. I know that it is weeping, but f*ck it. No way am I going to rip out that lot. A copper Yorkshire fitting done properly would not have leaked.

I expect you know, but for the benefit of posterity it is illegal to use lead solder on pipes for potable water (hot or cold). Personally I have found that plumbing fittings, with nice aggressive plumbing flux, are the only case where lead free solder *does* work alright, just a little hotter though.

Excess flux blocks the required flow of the solder. Dipping the pipe would give way too much. A thin smear is enough.

NT

"Yorkshire

I much prefer end fed. They look nicer without that nasty bulge.

Did he use some extra solder too - just to be sure?

An older rosin flux does work just fine - but you do need to clean things more carefully.

I am end fed, but still have a bulge ;-)

USA only, apparently, but surely made by others...

Thomas Prufer

Now you mention it, he did, but I don't do that.

Not necessarily. Over the years there have been the odd few things that can't be sourced in the EU, let alone UK, that the US seems to be awash with.

Yup that is the problem I found last time I looked.

Perhaps epoxying a mandrel with a plate on the end to one of the manual cylindrical brushes would be a way... or possibly find a small rubber sleeved sanding drum that could be an interference fit up the end of one.

;-) I had a mate who did too. That's how he'd seen it done. Made absolutely no sense to me.