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Fire up your torch and adjust the flame so the blue cone in the center is about 1 1 4 in. The longer the cone the hotter the flame.

Pin On Copper Soldering

This video will explain to you in details how to solder copper the correct way so you can do it yourself and not have to pay an expensive plumber and save tons of.

How to solder copper pipes. Touch the solder to the pipe. Prepare inside of fitting. Its purpose is to remove oxides from the metal and ensure good copper solder adhesion.

Clean outside of pipe. Flux is a paste that you ll find next to the solder at the hardware store. Rub down the outside of the pipe with a rag.

The second critical preparation step is the application of flux. Heat the fitting to sweat the copper pipe. Spread soldering flux on the outside of the pipe and the inside of the fitting.

Clean the inside of the fitting with a wire brush. How to solder copper pipe step 1. The first step to assembling copper pipe is to cut your pipe to length.

Prepwork is critical to ensuring a good soldered joint. Cleaning the pipe and fitting. How to solder copper pipe step 1.

Apply flux to pipe. Here are the tools. Remove flame from fitting.

Typically it s easiest to clean flux and assemble the entire run of copper and then begin soldering copper pipe joints in place all at once opening photo.