WWA Info Exchange

I had a water pipe that was leaking at a soldered copper joint, I tried every trick I have learned in over fifty years but could get it to stop dripping. So I gave up drained the pipe again and coated the joint with JB weld, wrapped the JB weld with duct tape to keep the JB weld in place and let it set over night, The next day I turned the water back on NO LEAK.

Don't know which solved your problem but JB and duct tape are the "go-to" problem
solvers for me.

Duan

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Duan Packard
Kerrville, Texas

dum vivimus, vivamus

Duct tape is awesome

I'm wondering since you drained it down, why you did not just re sweat the joint. it works every time.

Duct tape THROW IT OUT PURCHASE GORILLA TAPE. after your first use You will want my picture for your mantle piece, as a fond member of your family.

JB weld I cant offer a better alternative besides 2 pictures of me on your Mantle piece would look strange.

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Mango
The land some where in the middle
20 47 00N -156 26 00W

I did resweat the joint. I even tried cutting out a section putting paper towels in the pipe and putting on a split union , removing the paper towels and tightening the split union but the split union would not seal( I tried this with four split unions and they all leaked), So I gave up and went to the JB weld it is ugly but it doesn't leak!

Duct tape AKA - THE FORCE

It has a light side and a dark side and,

It holds the universe together

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Mohandas K. Ghandi

It holds the universe together" Black holes fear it.

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Mango
The land some where in the middle
20 47 00N -156 26 00W

Not to be contrary, I would not use that method on copper pipe with a pressured water supply. My 2cents.

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