Yeah and living up there the flame probably doesn't get hot enough to solder anyway... hahaha
I love them. I had to fix a shower line at my house in Charlotte when we were doing some remodeling and I had to change out the vertical line to the shower head. I can solder fine but this was inside a wall cavity and right against the stud. I was closest to Home Depot so got their brand. I forget now which is which. Lowes has Shark something as well and they both work the same way and as well. ----- Original Message ----- From: jim To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:43 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] shark bite connectors all i can say about these is wow! last night my pump started running. hmmm no water on, oh no. going down in the basement i hear this hissing, again, oh no. yep one of my copper pipes sprung a leak. grrrrr OK fill up the water jug and a sink for washing hands then close the valve and the hissing stops. well i lucked out, the hole was in a very accessible spot. remembering a friend of mine changing out an old valve with the new shark bite valves i wondered if they made just connectors to join 2 pipes together. so calling the local ace hardware i find out that yes they do. so bright and early off to the store we go and for the happy price of $7 i get one. and the silly little plastic piece used to disconnect the connector if you want to for $2. come back home and get a tubing cutter out i find the hole and put the cutter on it and start twisting. hmmm, i look as i am cutting and do i see a nice cut line? nope the darn cutter is walking down the tube, grrr. tossing that one in the trash i look and find another one i new i had. thank you dad for never tossing anything out. so back to the pipe and now i have to cut out the ruined piece of tubing. luckily i have enough play in the pipe to cut out more than the piece with the hole. ok so all edges square and sanded to remove burs. then all you do is slide the connector on one end of the pipe till it bottoms out, then pull the other pipe over and stuff it in to the other end and firmly slide it in there till it too bottoms out. turn on the water and wow, no leaks. hot dam all done and no soldering or plumbers needed. this is the very thing any person with a tubing problem needs. they work on copper, PVC and pex. the bag said so. they have all the fittings from valves to elbows and tees. a little spendy but hey i didn't burn down the house trying to sweat pipes together. Jim in Minnesota [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
