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@pauljenkinson2870 Год назад

If you want to work out how much solder to use. Bend the end of the solder 90 degrees. Same width as pipe. And you good to go. That's what we learnt when we were apprentices

@j_skillet5399 3 месяца назад

Underrated comment

@ns3v3n 8 месяцев назад

I learned how to solder with this channel when I was replacing my shower valves. Saved me $2500 from what the plumber quoted me when I chose the to do the work myself. This channel is great.

@Got2Learn 8 месяцев назад

😇😇😇

@GreatLeaderhosen 2 месяца назад

Yep!

@Doomzdayxx Год назад

This is such a great channel. I feel fortunate that I found it, it inspired me to practice soldering and to get an intuition for how it works.

@Got2Learn Год назад

Very gratifying, thank you so much 🙏

@10Flat 10 месяцев назад

Great channel!

@62Cristoforo Год назад

I always unroll about a foot of solder and form it between my fingers into a wave pattern, with the waves being about an inch or so high. This helps me gauge how much solder I’m going through per joint. It also helps me reach around the back side of the joint to ensure even application of solder all around the joint

@BombDame Год назад

I was taught to wipe the flux away before you solder to prevent drips, it helps

@BlackVibeBallsack Год назад

I have used your information on soldering several times...everything is still working properly. Thanks a million

@rupe53 Год назад

rule of thumb... 1/2" pipe = about 1/2" of solder. 3/4" pipe = about 3/4" of solder. Improper cleaning, uneven heat, and using more solder is what causes problems. Like taking a crap... always wipe when done!

@grobertson2008 9 месяцев назад

Exactly many do not now this. More isn’t better.

@mannymiah 3 месяца назад

I used this yesterday to fix my water heater piping and it worked! I just follow his theory of the solder is attracted to heat. And no leaks!

@OneIdeaTooMany Год назад

Not a plumber and probably never going to attempt this this is a fantastic demonstration

@aredditor4272 Год назад

Great video, cut-away, and graphics, but I've never seen copper get unwetted of solder.

@NeoclassicYT Год назад

This video has engineering education level quality. Very good! I wish my bosses were like you!

@keepitwunhunna7148 21 день назад

CONTROL THE HEAT

@Kenjiro5775 Год назад

Your explanations have gotten better and better as you make these videos. 👍😁

@devitomichael 2 месяца назад

This is exactly the type of high resolution explanation that competence is built upon.

@Got2Learn 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much 😀

@toddolson573 7 месяцев назад

These explanations are paramount. No beating around the bush.

@Got2Learn 7 месяцев назад

🔥🔥🔥

@sethdistler5332 Год назад

Self taught myself how to solder with RU-vid and trial and error. Wish you were around 9 years ago!!!!

@Constitution1789 Год назад

You do post insightful videos. Clear explanations. Easy to follow. Easy to see and visualize.

@Got2Learn Год назад

🙏

@shanefoster3076 Год назад

That's why you always work from the bottom up because heat rises. Most of the time you don't need to heat the top of the fitting nearly as much because the heat from the bottom has already risen.

@BombDame Год назад

Good tip 👍

@zgrif Год назад

This actually isn’t true. Hot air rises above cool air because warm air is at a lower density than cool air. “Hot air rising” has more to do with the properties of air than heat itself. Copper isn’t air, the heat just travels to where heat can be transferred, whether that’s up, down, sideways, whatever.

@shanefoster3076 Год назад

@@zgrif there is air inside the pipe that is being heated as well that helps with the transfer of heat.

@chickenswallow 5 месяцев назад

@@shanefoster3076 this is true, but the thermal conductivity of air is very very low. We use air gaps to insulate homes, for example. The thermal conductivity of copper is so much higher than that of air, enough that the effects of air in the pipe are mostly negligible from a heat transfer standpoint.

@andrey162000 4 месяца назад

It’s just 1/2” copper, once it flashes it’s all flowing everywhere, let’s not over engineer something that’s been perfected decades ago.

@nickcaluori7650 Год назад

ABSOLUTE PROFESIONALISM EXPERIENCE WILL HELP MILLIONS...THANKS G2L

@vichikakry9924 21 день назад

I love the cutouts he shows!

@raptorms773 Месяц назад

I do get run off but I typically solder mu bottom joint first then the top one with heat from the pipe that gives me really great results havent had a leak in 18 years. But im gonna try this nex time i have a vertical joint

@johngale466 Год назад

You always have such great advice and explain techniques very well. Keep it up. ❤

@Got2Learn Год назад

😇🙏

@hexhex7220 Год назад

excellent detailed explanation...all about teaching a man to fish, as the saying goes

@Got2Learn Год назад

Yes, exactly!!!

@62Cristoforo Год назад

When you think about it you probably require at the most one drop of solder to fill the incredibly thin space between the fitting and the pipe, two drops if you want to be sure. Then wipe away the excess molten solder with your flux brush for a neat and professional looking soldered joint. Don’t forget to wipe away excess flux and carbon deposits with a dry rag. Wiping away any excess flux will help prevent it from continually eating away at the copper over a few years, until it develops a pinhole leak.

@rudedog062 Год назад

Bottom first and finish on top. This not very critical smaller on diameter pipe but is a good habit to get into for larger pipe. On larger dia pipe, you need good heat control. Starting on the bottom and working around the pipe. The top is now preheated and will take less heat while the bottom is starting to cool.

@petergambino2129 Год назад

The tubing and the fitting must be at the same temperature to make a good solder joint. (Obvious whenever soldering anything over 3/4 inch.) The flux cleans the joint, AND provides a medium for the solder to flow through, the heat from the torch directs the flow of the solder. Preparation (cleaning tubing & fitting, along with properly fluxing the joint), & controlling the heat are most important. Skip any of those steps, and even the best solderer in the entire world, (ME), would have a hard time making a good joint. I can do it though! Have a nice day, and try to stay dry.😂

@ryancook1608 8 месяцев назад

I always heat the pipe just before the fitting, once the pipe starts to turn color then move heat to fitting and the solder will take. Vertically I would start from the top pipe and joint, then heat the lower pipe and move up to bottom joint...

@62Cristoforo Год назад

Somewhere along the way I had drilled into my head “don’t heat the solder; heat the work”. Don’t torch the solder with the direct flame, instead, heat the area where you want to solder to be sucked up into, that is, into the joint.

@murkyturkey5238 Год назад

Again I was wondering why I had leaks everywhere 😂 thank you so much broski

@Got2Learn Год назад

Happy to help!!

@docyoungblood9521 Год назад

always heat in the direction you want the solder to flow...and NEVER start at the top rookie!!!!

@keithprocter141 Год назад

The heat doesn't attract the solder. It is drawn in because of the surface tension of the liquid solder, which creates capillary action between the inner surface of the coupling and the outer surface of the pipe.

@TimeSurfer206 Год назад

The heat creates the condition that allows all this to happen. And if the heat is not placed properly, it does not flow to where we desire it.

@keithprocter141 Год назад

@@TimeSurfer206 Yes, that condition being that the solder is liquid.

@TimeSurfer206 Год назад

@@keithprocter141 Not without the heat.

@billymacktexasdetective5827 Год назад

@@TimeSurfer206 Heat melts solder but it doesn't attract it. You don't know what you are talking about...

@TimeSurfer206 Год назад

@@billymacktexasdetective5827 The heat lowers the viscosity... Liquids wick to areas of lower viscosity better. This is why Candle wax can go UP a wick.

@bdog0720 Год назад

The manual says you have to move the torch to heat the pipe evenly on as many sides possible. Heat rises and these joint are really close together. Heat the bottom joint on all sides first and solder, then move to the top joint and heat on all sides and solder. Just like the manual says.

@ObservationofLimits Год назад

Heat "rising" is inconsequential. The conductive transfer is much too fast for that to matter.

@bdog0720 Год назад

@@ObservationofLimits Is that what the manual says? Let me know what manual you found that in.

@ObservationofLimits Год назад

@@bdog0720 it's in the countless physics classes regarding material sciences. The conductive properties of metal on metal grossly outweigh the convection of "warm air". Air is an insulator to begin with and bad at transfer. The hot air will carry and transfer almost as much heat 6 inches up. Air transfer is irrelevant outside the flame.

@bdog0720 Год назад

@@ObservationofLimits So the answer is NO. You sound very technically minded. Can you reference 1 physics book, from the countless, I can use to look up this info?

@ObservationofLimits Год назад

@@bdog0720 Copper - 398 W/m•K. Air - 2.623−6.763 × 10^-2 W/m•K. Wow a factor of FOUR

@azbrunner Год назад

Great in theory but I have yet to find a torch that can focus your heat with "pen point" accuracy. Proper experience is needed to control your heat. Basically practice, practice, practice.

@krazykyle393 Год назад

Cream brûlée torch

@rickyspanish9625 Год назад

@@krazykyle393lmao you gonna spend five-ten minutes heating each joint?

@jackmyhre8759 Год назад

Best practice I’ve found while being an apprentice is to take old copper from the scrap pile and take off the old fittings just to solder them back on. Sure it’s a waste of solder but I guess it’s better than flooding a customers house lol

@terryandrews7271 Год назад

I'm a retired pipe fitter I'm 71 years old, If I could only get a dollar for every solder joint that I made i would not be relying On medicare and social security, I'm barely getting by😮😮😮 PS, You definitely know how to solder copper, God speed

@Got2Learn Год назад

🙏🙏🙏🤜🤛

@phillipkirby502 Год назад

Cool, whatever works. I soldier lower portion first and the top will be hot when I get there. Each their own.

@chrismoreno3224 Год назад

Same here, heat rises.

@Jet_Hammer Год назад

@@chrismoreno3224 not in solids like copper. You're thinking of air

@arabgamesandtech2272 Год назад

I like your videos my friend i really hope i can go to america and be a plumber or drywall and painting thank a lot

@eko4749 Год назад

I was always tought to heat where you want the soder to go.

@Seven7Pain1 Год назад

Lord that was lot soldier you should be able to do 1/2 coupling with 3/4 of a inch of soldier too

@alibong00 9 месяцев назад

The heating on the bottom doesn’t attract the solder. Using too much localized heat reduces the surface tension of the solder too much, to where the solder cannot climb against gravity because of the reduction in surface tension. This looks like overflow but it is not, the solder just goes in to the gap part way and won’t fill anymore.

@jasondonnelly8940 Месяц назад

The way u prefer to soldier is the correct way.solldier follows the heat

@LazerBrain11 7 дней назад

💯

@andrew1898 Год назад

Oatly 95 brother. Pre tinning flux. Just makes an easy job, easier!

@khayreddinebenyamina3462 Год назад

Your advices are awsome

@LegendOfKarogane Год назад

Why thank you 🙏🏾

@MisterRay11 Год назад

Start on the bottom

@colewellnitz1470 Год назад

Well for one, you always go from bottom up. Never do the top first.

@jeanmarcjelec4603 Год назад

thanks and I like too the original vidéo

@Got2Learn Год назад

😇😇😇

@danielbesingi7698 Год назад

Wisdom, science!

@anthonylange439 2 месяца назад

You should start at the bottom and work up because heat rises

@falsealarmno Год назад

Ive been liberal with my solder, but i didn't see any solder inside the pipes when i cut them open. Its hit and miss with solder.

@ObservationofLimits Год назад

If your pipe fit is good and clean and fluxed (without being burned off) it's pretty hard to flood through a joint without serious overheating.

@ooltimu Месяц назад

There's something called capilarity. It's not the heat that attracts the solder, but capilarity.

@Got2Learn Месяц назад

Full video on this right here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bCTBVoPvnok.html

@LazerBrain11 7 дней назад

I disagree, capillary action is when a 'liquid' flows through narrow spaces without external forces. Heat is an external force that's necessary to capillarity in soldering copper joints. If it isn't liquid, there can be no capillary action! You heat where you want the solder to flow so it remains a liquid. Heat does not 'attract' the solder, heat is absolutely essential & solder could not move without it. Solder absolutely follows the heat for this reason 👍

@real183 Год назад

Do any bend the solder so as not using too much for the joint?

@spoof4957 7 месяцев назад

Sweat the bottom half of the fitting first. Heat rises.

@bergiefresh88 6 месяцев назад

Start from the bottom. Heat rises work your way up.

@JesusEspinoza-cw7ct Год назад

Forgot to explain why the bottom one goes towards the middle

@DrDAC-go7hs Год назад

This sounds like wild conjecture to me

@Elektrotechniker Год назад

*Heat attracts the Solder* Wait, what? Why would that be?

@andrewalexander9492 6 месяцев назад

It doesn't. That's a myth that a lot of people believe. The solder is attracted by capillary action, not by heat. *BUT*, the capillary action isn't going to work unless there's enough heat to keep the solder liquid. So, that has the appearance to some people that it's the heat whcih is attracting the solder, but it's not.

@johannesfeigl5309 9 месяцев назад

You should expplain cappilaryaction

@Got2Learn 9 месяцев назад

Whole video on that subject right here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bCTBVoPvnok.htmlsi=SHAse_TWHVjF87g5

@jpturner171 Год назад

Very cool thank you

@Got2Learn Год назад

🤜🤛

@elus89 Год назад

So on larger you still have to break it up into two spots for heat, correct? Good to know.

@Got2Learn Год назад

Yes!

@iwenive3390 Год назад

You actually do the bottom first I then the top if brazing

@ScottWConvid19 Год назад

Old timer taught me just use a wet rag around the seam and make it look good 😂

@BackYardScience2000 Год назад

That causes rapid cooling, which can cause cracks in the solder. He has a video on exactly this. I've even seen it happen myself.

@ScottWConvid19 Год назад

@@BackYardScience2000 I didn't say he taught me right...lol I seriously thought I had done most everything right until I found this channel a couple years ago. This man has taught me a whole lot. Love the content

@hectorheath9742 6 месяцев назад

A quick scour of the relevant YT vids and I can't find anything on cutting such a small length off a pipe end when it's just a little too long. A junior hacksaw and a file I guess ?🤔

@tomevans4402 Год назад

That’s what I do.

@kevinmargavitch649 Год назад

never solder from the top down. Always solder from the bottom up, heat rises. you preheat the upper joint. Also, you need to use 1 1/2 times the solder, 1/2 " joint you need 1 1/2"s of solder, 3/4" you need 1 1/8" of solder.

@petergambino2129 Год назад

Spoken like a solder salesman

@ziads3653 Год назад

Can you use the same principle with brazing?

@zgrif Год назад

You don’t even need to really, silfoss doesn’t drip like solder does. Brazing is more about evenly heating the fitting and pipe vs soldering

@marianobotello1504 Год назад

Great .

@Got2Learn Год назад

😎

@ryanhenry21 Год назад

What is a soder?

@dontspeak2994 Год назад

Pro press > *

@jonathansmith2407 Год назад

Learning how to say solder would be good for you to

@campbellpaul Год назад

I think it may depend on the temperature of the pipe prior to soldering, as heat rises, so your theory isn't necessarily going to be correct. Many plumbers only add heat to one side of the joint, anyway, which I somewhat disagree with, as well.

@BlueDart1971 Год назад

I totally disagree with only heating one side.

@ObservationofLimits Год назад

Heat "rising" isn't going to have any noticeable effect compared to conduction transfer.

@campbellpaul Год назад

@@ObservationofLimits same principle

@howardsen666 Год назад

1995 we did that… 😂😂

@dawisekrakken7026 Год назад

Thank you for doing this video. Now I can tell the plumber he did it wrong and I had to fix it later when he left.

@welshshogun6750 Год назад

fuck me, once I tried 3 times to solder, like this and always dripped than soldered a small tap between the two end and never understand why was wrong, lost three hours thanks a lot

@TrickyTree84 9 месяцев назад

Just do it all from the top

@pauljenkinson2870 Год назад

Bollox . Your not a plumber . You can feed the joint from the top . And wait to see a ring of solder. At the bottom of the joint. No runs happy day. Clean joint. So it doesn't turn green from the old flux.. and your soldering depends on what blow lamp you've got. I recommend the rothenberger superfire 2. Your not s trades person.

@792slayer Год назад

Shark bites and pex. This is the way.

@jazzjohn2 Год назад

Could someone please explain the physics behind the widely held belief that solder flows towards the heat?

@darincatanzarite6230 9 месяцев назад

Your over thinking it ! Heat it up ! Solder both right after another! Then back of heat and cap! No burgers! If so , wipe away with solder! Next!

@mestizoboy Год назад

Another great tip. Thx for posting 👍 On another note, it sounds like all those jackass comments from shallow, typical 'muricans got you to evolve your pronunciation of "solder".

@The0masz Год назад

Oh for fuck sake this is Basic knowledge.. cmon ppl

@talkntrash Год назад

Doesn't solder have lead? If solder gets inside the pipe and water sits with lead in the pipe... Doesn't the lead leach into the water supply? The answer is yes. Thanks for playing 😂

@Got2Learn Год назад

Not the new lead free solder.

@talkntrash Год назад

@@Got2Learn good point 👍 However, what chemical is it made of and that chemical can still leach even though it might not be that toxic.

@Got2Learn Год назад

@@talkntrash It's made of tin and antimony, to what degree are they toxic, this I cannot answer, but I do know that lead solder isn't sold anymore, which is a good thing.

@shockingguy Год назад

I don’t know where you live but in the states We’ve been using lead free solder for decades, it’s the law

@dennislong3045 Год назад

What are your pipes made out of? Plastic? Not sure how that is any safer.

@michaelwhite4373 Год назад

I'm using pex system no heat 4me 😅😅😅Novice I'm pro Now

@Tom-y1j Месяц назад

Wrong, don't just heat the middle. Non plumbers will male mistakes doing that.

@itchy-scratchy Год назад

No shit. It's called sweating a fitting.

@wasimedoo7994 Год назад

Very good information 👍

@isyt1 Год назад

Why is he saying sauder instead of solder. There’s an L in that word

@dennisthemenace57 Год назад

Ridiculous, that is not a 1/2 inch to 1 inch joint. And lead solder like that hasn't been used for decades.

@andydickson6085 Год назад

The L is NOT silent. SOAL-DER

@petergambino2129 Год назад

It is too! Just like you should be!

@Car-editzz-sq1qk Год назад

Yea bro uhhh in reality the whole thing gets hot😂…… maybe if this was brass on brass or maybe even copper to brass 😊

@thoboj4712 Год назад

did you ever solder in real life? these effects never happen. a good joint should have no more then 0,5mm space so the solder doesn't run out of the joint.