(This is a real good example of a living history. I wrote the first part of this entry in 2001. With a book you would have to wait for the next edition for developments. With a bulletin board you would have to read a lot of old entries. What I love about my web site is that I can change, adapt an...
They took the lead out...
Several years ago, throughout North America lead was removed from the solder used for making joints in copper pipes intended for carrying drinking water, just as before that we had removed lead from paint. Lead based solder is still available in stores for other tasks, ...
There are three key steps to making leak proof copper pipe joints.
Clean off both the inside of the elbow and the outside of the pipe with steel wool or a special cleaner tool.
Apply a soldering flux to both cleaned surfaces. The cleaning gets rid of contaminates and oxidation o...
