Ream your Pipes!

Do you ream your pipes?? 🤔🤔
Check out @thelittlestplumber for some valuable insights (and some added humor) on why it matters. Also a mighty fine display of soldering using Oatey Lead Free Solder 🦝

[@tmactheplumber4966]

Awesome lookin' soldered joints ! Nice work.

[@craigwiddison4118]

30 years as a plumber and yes!!! Ream the pipes!

[@grocker5382]

Eeeerrrr uh eeeeerrrr

[@wisco53520]

You say you’re fixing it, but you’re not in the video. 😳

[@par4par72]

Uhm ...ream the OD. Not just the ID. OD burr is the FOD you have to look out for, sooo.

[@johnmagus6341]

Only 83k years experience? Amateur...

[@chipburns4123]

How about why reaming is important?😂😂. What happens when you dont…

[@craigwiddison4118]

It causes cavitation in the water and it eats the pipe.

[@justinwizard4776]

So why would reaming the inside of the pipe prevent leaking? The outside is more important to ream. I mean youre not soldering the inside. So you either didnt ream the outside of the pipe or didnt film it.

[@TylerSmith-qx6uz]

Because it causes vortices and erodes the pipe on the inside.

[@randycny]

Look more like corrosion on the outside. The original plumber didn’t wipe off the flux.

[@thefirelord3148]

Technically speaking, thats not soldering, its brazing

[@PWgadgets]

Nope, copper pipe soldering typically takes place at temperatures between 350°F and 600°F. The American Welding Society (AWS) defines soldering as a joining process that occurs below 840°F, while brazing occurs above 840°F

[@thefirelord3148]

@@PWgadgets and map gas burns at temps significantly higher than that

[@likemy67buickspecial]

​@@thefirelord3148 but your not using direct heat for soldering, it only heats the pipe to draw in the solder. Higher temp gas just makes the process quicker, but is not a requirement to get a good joint

[@justinwizard4776]

Brazing is hotter. That's solder. And yes mapp gas does get that hot. The gas gets that hot. You don't need to the copper glowing red to sweat.

[@JordanWatson-gn6bn]

​@@thefirelord3148you use a brazing stick when brazing and solder when soldering bud...that was soldering.

[@invidia44]

Im in the trade should i make videos? Im not a chick so i wont get any views lmao.

[@trentswag9324]

You probably could get views there’s an actual useful trade side to KZbin aside from the 12 yr old simps go ahead and make them more info is always useful

[@tylerk9375]

Sounds like excuses to not try.