When you don't want to go to the store for the right part

[geoffhazel]

Yeah, we don't need a cap for this line. Just squeeze it tight and I'll solder it.

Crapplumbing

• geoffhazel
• Mar 15, 2019

And yes, it eventually DID leak. Fortunately in an accessible spot.

 

[frodo]

typically. happens every day




here is a project for you to work on

make a flange tail piece from a piece of 1 1/2'' chrome tubing pipe

using only your pliers and a hammer

 

[TomFOhio]

Who soldered that pipe up??? Hopefully not a licensed plumber.

 

[frodo]

here is another, cap off a live copper water line

Using 2 hammers. one as an anvil, the other to beat with
close off/ smash flat, a copper water line that is LIVE

then, cut the line, smash the end where you cut, and solder the line closed,



not a permanent cap off. for emergency situations

 

[frodo]

Who soldered that pipe up??? Hopefully not a licensed plumber.

we do that all the time for temp caps

stub outs on water lines in a house under construction.

never never for a permanent cap. but totally acceptable for construction

 

[TomFOhio]

For the cost of a cap we used to make them a little longer that normal and then when we cut them off we could use
them for the next job.

 

[frodo]

For the cost of a cap we used to make them a little longer that normal and then when we cut them off we could use
them for the next job.

yep...
you figure 8-10 1/2'' caps plus 2 -3/4 per house at $10.00 for all
if you do 30 houses per year. that is saving $300.00
real money in a tight competitive market

 

[FishScreener]

My favorite found solution, was a fifty caliber lead bullet, pushed into a half inch copper, with the copper crimped into the grease grooves on the bullet with a tubing cutter.

 

[frodo]

My favorite found solution, was a fifty caliber lead bullet, pushed into a half inch copper, with the copper crimped into the grease grooves on the bullet with a tubing cutter.

never thought of that...but can do

 

[havasu]

Man, I want to shoot a 50 Cal again.

 

[WyrTwister]

How many have used the bread trick when a valve does not quite shut off ?

Wyr
God bledd

 

[frodo]

guilty.. more than once

how many of you guys have cut plastic with a string?

here is a nifty little jig , easy to make, changes the direction of the cut from vertical to horizontal
works real well in a tub box