DIY Plumbing
- Equipment needed
- Spanner
- Wrench
- Open ended spanner
- Hammer
- Hacksaw
- PTFE tape. (soft white)Teflon Tape
- Wire wool , emery cloth
- Flux - acid-free
- Solder - lead-free
- Heat resistant gloves.
- Plumbers fiberglass mat, or ceramic tile to protect wall from gas flame
- Pipe cutter, clamp with cutter wheel
- De-burring file to clean inside of pipe edge
- Steel wool to clean connection end
- Miniature valves
- pipe dope or joint compound or teflon tape.
- Copper pipes
- Metric - sizes 15mm, 22mm and 28mm (External measured)
- Imperial - sizes 1/2", 3/4", 1" (Internal measured)
- If connecting Imperial to metric, compression fittings could work, for soldering adapter is needed for exact fit.
- Compression fittings (joints)
- 2 x Cap nut's, 2 x olive, Body
- After hand tightening, add one revolution.
- Water tighten, by undo fitting after tightening, and wrap PTFE tape around olive, approx 8 turns in clockwise direction.
- Solder fittings, Capillary fittings
- Cut pipe, clean with wire wool, littel flux.
- Heat until flux begins to bubble, touch mouth of joint in two or three places with solder wire, until ring of solder all the way around joint.
- Solder Integral Ring Fittings (Yorkshire Fittings)
- Plastic Pipe
- Can cut with sharp knife.
- Collet fittings, push fit. (Don't put finger in)
- Connecting old Galvanized steel pipe to copper pipe.
- dielectric union - threads on one side, and female slip join for solder.
- Threaded connections wrap with Teflon tape.
- Start at end, don't lap over the end with couple of loops.
- wrap all of thread, overlap 50%, keep tension.
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