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maybe in your area ,you don't get power failures on city water, but I've found if pressure is lost ,when it comes back on they can blow apart!
I hate plumbing
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How much pressure are you running?? All the packages say rated to something like 250psi!
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70psi, it's not the pressure I think when pressure drops the locks get loose
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Then they're defective. I've removed them with the removal tool and they are TIGHT little f'ers.
And here is that job, a spigot that has a crack where the washer meets, and its too deep to just grind the seat. When I tried to loosen it its a no go with everything else starting to flex, even if I try to stabilize it with a second wrench. So it gets an extra screw on valve.
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I have 42 cottages to maintain, nothing but sweat, pex , wirsbo. not a chance I'd trust a sharkbite,more so a sharkbite cap!
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The hell you talking about? I'm out here in the sticks, man - we get power failures and such galore.
I love doing plumbing, I love correcting issues, I love soldering, but I’ve been a plumber since 1977.
Not discrediting Sharkbite but plumbers don’t use them much for various reasons.
In the above post #45,
-Shut the feed line off.
-Open the sillcock.
-Heat the **** out of the 3/4” brass at the nipple with a hand held Mapp gas torch and wrench off.
-Install a new $6.00 sillcock.
- Add a 3/4 code hose vacuum breaker
15 minute job
Not discrediting Sharkbite but plumbers don’t use them much for various reasons.
In the above post #45,
-Shut the feed line off.
-Open the sillcock.
-Heat the **** out of the 3/4” brass at the nipple with a hand held Mapp gas torch and wrench off.
-Install a new $6.00 sillcock.
- Add a 3/4 code hose vacuum breaker
15 minute job
Oh the humanity!
Thanks, I thought about heating it but wasn't sure if it would take so much heat that it would travel to the adjacent solder joint and weaken it. I've done a fair bit of plumbing, and a lot of electrical soldering, but I don't think I've ever soldered plumbing and wasn't sure how much the heat travels.
Once when rotorooter was out to cut some roots (I have my own machine to do that now) I asked the guy how much to change the spigot and he said around $500. Hell no to that.
Always heat the fittings you want to solder or remove, never the pipe or the seam, solder follows heat, thus draws into a fitting where you want it.
If you only heat the brass shoulder of the brass sillcock you won’t melt the other solder joints
Hope that helps
If you only heat the brass shoulder of the brass sillcock you won’t melt the other solder joints
Hope that helps
Not there, Take the ground strap off or push back towards house and heat the hub of the brass sillcock, it’s screwed onto a nipple
Got it thanks, I'll give it a go this summer!
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