Well...if I can't set up copper gas lines the same way I'd set up copper
water lines, copper is right out. If I've got to learn a new skill, I
might as well learn how to join black iron to be leak free. I'll need that
when I set up the air lines in the garage, anyway.
I'm thinking I'll set up the system up to the point of connecting it to the
meter. Then I'll have someone come and pressure test it and connect it.
That way I'll know it's done right (because I did it), and probably cheaper
too. And also I'll mitigate the chance of sending my house into low earth
orbit.
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Steven Trovato <strovato@optonline.net>
wrote:
> What I'm reading seems to indicate that you shouldn't be soldering copper
> gas lines. You have to braze with melting point over 1000 degrees or use
> other "approved fittings." Here's a forum discussing it:
> http://www.inspectorsjournal.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14742
>
> As for the pinhole problem, on initial installation I imagine one could
> charge and pressure test the whole system with air or nitrogen or
> something. Then redoing something wouldn't be any more hazardous than
> doing it the first time. Of course, once the system has had gas in it,
> it's a different story.
>
> -Steve
>
> At 10:45 AM 8/11/2015, Jeff Scarbrough wrote:
>
>> I'm pondering how one would re-solder a pinhole leak in a copper gas
>> pipe system. I can't think of a way that doesn't involve the solderer
>> becoming an involuntary astronaut.
>>
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